Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 2:42PM Klezmorim of Manchester. Richard Fay's Klezmorim will perform at the Klezmer Evening at Hallé at St. Michael's. 7pm - 9pm, Monday 14 November 2022. Further Information.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 2:35PM Jewish Studies. Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (University of Manchester) will give the next Sherman Community Lecture entitled "The Jewel in the Crown of Anglo-Jewry? A History of Limmud". Thursday 6 December 2022 8pm (via Zoom). Further information.
Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:01AM Jewish Studies. The Jewish Historical Society of England have set up a Jewish history and Jewish studies PGR/Postdoc group, offering a peer group with events including discussions with authors of new history books, reading groups and methodological workshops. PGRs and Postdocs interested in joining the group should email Sophie Wilson (sophie.wilson@qmul.ac.uk).
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 1:26PM Jewish and Irish Music. ‘Amid the Mirk Over the Irk: When Irish Meets Klezmer’ is an imagined musical meeting of two of Manchester’s longest-established and prominent immigrant communities: the Irish and the Jewish. The film of the overture (co-produced by Richard Fay) is a finalist in the ‘Made in Manchester’ category of the Manchester Culture Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on 24 November 2022. Watch the film on YouTube. Further information.
Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 10:40AM Holocaust Libraries. Professor Dreyfus will participate in a panel conversation with experts from Lithuania and the Head of the Bodleian Library Oxford about the history of libraries, lives and narratives in European cityscapes of the Holocaust. The in-person event is hosted by the British Library on 11 October 2022. 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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