Monday, March 23, 2015 at 9:02PM 
Judaism, race science and evolutionary theory. Daniel Langton has published an article entitled "Jewish Evolutionary Perspectives on Judaism, Anti-Semitism, and Race Science in Late 19th Century England: A Comparative Study of Lucien Wolf and Joseph Jacobs" in Jewish Historical Studies 46 (2014): 37-73. Further information.
Share Article Monday, March 23, 2015 at 6:24PM 
Jewish mysticism and the science-religion debate. Les Lancaster has published an article entitled "Hermeneutic Neurophenomenology in the Science-Religion Dialogue: Analysis of States of Consciousness in the Zohar" in Religions 6:1 (2015): 146-171. Further information.
Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 9:12PM 
Melilah 11 (2014) on the theme of 'Jewish Studies and the New Testament'. Announcing the online publication of the latest volume of the Centre's Open Access journal Melilah, edited by Daniel Langton and Renate Smithuis. Contents: 1. Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine, The Jewish Annotated New Testament: Retrospect and Prospects. 2. Anders Runesson, Saving the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel: Purity, Forgiveness, and Synagogues in the Gospel of Matthew. 3. Jody A. Barnard, Anti-Jewish Interpretations of Hebrews: Some Neglected Factors. 4. Etka Liebowitz, Hypocrites or Pious Scholars? The Image of the Pharisees in Second Temple Period Texts and Rabbinic Literature. 5. Pere Casanellas and Harvey J. Hames, A Textual and Contextual Analysis of the Hebrew Gospels translated from Catalan. Further information.
Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 9:56AM 
Charlie Hebdo. A round-table discussion took place at the University on 30 Jan 2015 to contextualise the recent Paris killings and their consequences. Moshe Behar contributed with a presentation entitled 'Thoughts on killing and the killed'. Further information.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 10:58AM 
CJS Israel Studies series. Thu 19 March: Rebecca Steinfeld (Stanford University), War of the Wombs: Struggles over Abortion Policies in Israel. 4pm in A113, Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.
Monday, March 9, 2015 at 9:33PM 
Modern Hebrew short stories. Moshe Behar has published an essay (in Hebrew) entitled "'Little Nadra' was also a 'Yemenite'" in Cafe Gibraltar (24 February 2015) on three little-known short stories that world-renowned Yemenite-Israeli choreographer Sara Levy-Tanay (1910-2005) published during her early 20's in 1933 and 1934. Further information.
Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 4:14PM 
Times Higher Education. Dr Adam Ozanne (School of Social Sciences) has had a letter published in the THE (26 Feb 2015) in which he queries the University's decision to withdraw Middle Eastern Studies courses. He notes the recent comments by Rory Stewart MP that a lack of people who could speak local languages was a major problem for the British army in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that there is a need to improve our "deep understanding" of the Middle East to oppose Islamic State. Further information.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 11:12AM 
Holocaust Studies. The 2015 Bogdanow Lectures by Prof. Christopher Browning on 'Agency in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Survivors, Rescuers' are now available to view online. The lectures are entitled: 1. From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: A Young American in Vichy France; 2. Why Did They Kill? Revisiting the Perpetrators; 3. Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps. Further information.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:56AM 
Jewish Studies research seminar. Wed 11 March: Jan Lorenz (Manchester University): Pathways to Jewishness: Jewish proselytes and conversion programmes in contemporary Poland. 3pm in A112, Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:34AM 
Jewish Places: Lived and Imagined. Announcing a research networking event, organised by Prof. Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) and Marci Freedman (University of Manchester) on the topic "Jewish Places: Lived and Imagined". Postgraduates and staff welcome. 23 April 2015 at Queen Mary University of London. For further information contact marci.freedman@manchester.ac.uk
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:20AM 
A Doctor Under Nazism. Jean-Marc Dreyfus was the academic consultant and co-writer for this French documentary 'T4. Un médecin sous le nazisme' (52 min, directed by Catherine Bernstein) which explores the Nazis' notorious T4 euthanasia programme. It focuses on one doctor, Hallervorden, who claimed the brains of victims to advance his own research. The premiere will be held 12 March in Paris. Further information.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 10:59AM 
Jewish law vs Jewish ethics. The next meeting of the Manchester Ancient Law reading group will be led by Katharina Keim who will bring an excerpt from the Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, a much debated collection of biblical interpretations which poses all sorts of methodological and theoretical challenges (dating, provenance, text composition, interpolations, genre, etc). 5pm Wed 4 March in A114 of the Samuel Alexander building. Further information.
IMAGE CREDITS: Illumination from a 14th century Spanish Passover Haggadah, showing the Israelites walking through the Red Sea. © John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
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