Holocaust Day Conference

This Holocaust day conference at the Imperial War Museum of the North is co-sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies. The theme of the conference is 'Hiding, Flight and Rescue under Nazi occupation'. Date: Monday 22 October 2012, 9.30am-4.30pm. Venue: Libeskind Rooms, IWM North

Speakers/topics include: Bob Moore (Sheffield University) 'Hiding and Rescue in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1940-1945'; Pamela Shatzkes 'Holocaust and Rescue: Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945'; Ludivine Broch (Pears Centre for the Study of antisemitism) 'Rescue, Railways and the Righteous of the Nations: French railway workers and the Jewish Deportations1942-44'; Remona Aly (Campaigns Director of Exploring Islam Foundation) 'The Besa code and the rescue of Jews in Albania'.

The programme organised by Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Reader in Holocaust Studies, the University of Manchester. To book a place, please email learningnorth@iwm.org.uk

Public Lecture at the University of Antwerp

'Why the name New TESTAMENT?' Bernard Jackson, former Centre co-director and now Professor of Law and Jewish Studies at Liverpool Hope University, will speculate on why it is the 'New Testament' rather than the 'New Covenant'. Further information.

New Publication

Wisdom and Understanding. A Festschrift in honour of Prof. Bernard Jackson, former Centre co-director and now Professor of Law and Jewish Studies at Liverpool Hope University, was presented at a special session at the recent Yale conference of the Jewish Law Association.

Nomination for Portico Prize

Jews and Other Foreigners. Bill William's study of the Jewish refugee experience in Manchester between 1933 and 1940 has been nominated for the Portico Prize, one of the country's leading literary prizes. Two prizes of £4,000 each are awarded biennially to a work of Fiction and one of non-Fiction, which must be set largely or wholly in the North of England. Further information.

Public debate

Genocide denial: should we defend the right to speak evil? Jean-Marc Dreyfus will be a panel member for the Battle of Ideas debate on Genocide denial on Saturday 20 Oct, 5.15pm until 6.30pm. Further information.

Public Lecture at University of Southampton

 'Jewish Religious Thought and Darwinism'. Daniel Langton, co-director of the Centre, will give an evening lecture to the Parkes Institute for Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations on 9 Oct 2012, in which he will compare the ways in which Mordecai Kaplan and Hans Jonas drew upon evolutionary theory in their theological responses to Auschwitz. Further information.