Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

9 Feb 21. The Holocaust at eye level: László Nemes, Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul (2015) in conversation. Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies. 6pm Zoom event. Further information.

9 Feb 21. The Holocaust at eye level: László Nemes, Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul (2015). Bogdanow masterclass in Holocaust Studies. 2pm Zoom event. Further information.

18 Feb 21. Scriptural Encounter meeting. The theme for this new series will be Domestic Abuse and Violence. Mahmoud Afifi will present on Abuse and Violence from an Islamic perspective. 12-1:30 Zoom meeting. Further information.

18 Feb 21. Professor Philip Alexander (University of Manchester) ‘The Post-70 Jewish Apocalypses and Jewish Eschatological Hopes at the End of the First Century’. Part of the Ehrhardt Research Seminar series. 14:00 - 16:00. Further information.

25 Feb 21. Dr Megan Warner (Northern College) ‘Abraham and the World-View of Deutero-Isaiah’. Part of the Ehrhardt Research Seminar series. 14:00 - 16:00. Further information.

18 Mar 21. Dr Samuel Hildebrandt ‘The Bird on the Roof, the City on the Hill: Images of Isolation in the Hebrew Bible’. 14:00 - 16:00. Further information.

18 Mar 21.Scriptural Encounter meeting. Dr Rachel Starr (Queen’s Foundation Birmingham) on Domestic Violence from a Christian perspective. Further information.

21 Mar 21. CJS PhD student Robert Kanter will be giving a presentation for The Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester on 'Anglo-Jewry’s interactions with converts to Islam 1900-1920' on 21 March at 7pm. Free online event.

15 Apr 21. Scriptural Encounter meeting. Rabbi Lee Wax of New North London Masorti Synagogue and Jewish Women’s Aid will be our presenter on the Domestic Abuse and Violence with Jewish texts. 12-1:30 Zoom meeting. Further information.

29 Apr 21. Dr Katja Stuerzenhofecker (University of Manchester) 'An Act of Compassion? Normalizing Online Delivery of Jewish Orthodox Rituals and Female Participation Under COVID-19'. 4.00pm. As part of the Religions & Theology Research Seminar series. Further information.

5 May 21. Moshe Behar 'Book Launch & Conversation: The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond'. JMRN event co-sponsored by AMES and CJS. 5pm BST. Further information.

23 May 21. Alex Samely will be giving a personal account of how he came to England for The Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester. The 'Migration Stories' event will host three Jews and three Muslims who will relate how either they or their parents came to Britain. Sunday 23 May 2021 at 7pm. Free online event. Register here.

27 May 21. Scriptural Encounter meeting. Dr Shuruq Naguib, lecturer in Islamic Studies (Lancaster University) on Gender Diversity from an Islamic perspective. 'The Woman Disputant: Gender and Hermeneutics in Praxis'. Zoom at 2- 3pm. Further information.

10-11 Jun 21. Online Doctoral and Early Career research training in Jewish Studies. See the provisional programme. Registration will open on 12 April.

10 Jun 21. Screen & Talk series. Screening of 'A collection of art and blood, the Goering catalogue ' followed by a Q&A panel with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, co-writer of the documentary. Online, 5.45pm. Further information.

2-12 July 21. Screen & Talk event. Streaming of ‘Wall’ (2017) by Moran Ifergan, Winner of Best Israeli Film Award at the 2017 Docaviv festival. This film streaming is accompanied by a free recorded discussion (41mins) with Robyn Ashworth-Steen, Principal Rabbi of Manchester Reform Synagogue, and Cathy Gelbin. The discussion is chaired by Judy Ironside MBE, Founder and President of UK Jewish Film. 2 – 12 July, online at UK Jewish Film. Further information.

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14 Oct 21. Dr Laura Quick (University of Oxford) ‘Monstrous Bodies in the Book of Job’. Part of the Ehrhardt Research Seminar series. 2-4pm. All sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. Further information.

19 Oct 21. Dr Zsofia Buda “The Rylands Gaster Codices and the problems of cataloguing them” and Dr Maria Cioata,“Moses Gaster: The Man and His Collections”. 2 - 3.30pm, online. Part of the Gaster Seminar series. Joint event with CJS and JRRI. Further information.

28 Oct 21. Scriptural Encounter meeting. The theme for this new series will be Gender Diversity. Rabbi Ariel Abel will be the presenter with Jewish texts. 1200-13:30 hybrid event, on campus (University Place 4.214) and on zoom. Further information.

28 Oct 21. Sebastian Truskolaski (Manchester) 'Bilderverbot: Adorno and the ban on Images'. The event is free and open to all. 5-7pm. Geoffrey Manton Building, Room 230, Manchester Metropolitan University. As part of the Human Sciences Seminar series. Further information.

9 Nov 21. Prof. Philip Alexander, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester “How should we catalogue Hebrew amulets? The Case of the Gaster Amulets in the Rylands”. 2 - 3.30pm, online. Part of the Gaster Seminar series. Joint event with CJS and JRRI. Further information.

10 - 13 Nov 21. Screen & Talk series. Online screening of 'The Black Book' followed by a Q&A. As part of the Jewish Film Festival. Further information.

11 Nov 21. Jon Darby (Nazarene Theological College) ‘Singing and Textual Transmission in the Dead Scrolls: The Corporate Song of Praise in Psalm 154’. Part of the Ehrhardt Research Seminar series. 2-4pm. All sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. Further information.

14 Nov 21. Yaron Madras will preset about the wide diversity of languages spoken in Greater Manchester with focus on those spoken by Muslims and Jews. This will be followed by contributions from the Jewish and Muslim speakers, including Alex Samely who will be speaking about his personal linguistic journey through life. A Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester event. Zoom event, 19:00. Further information.

18 Nov 21. Scriptural Encounter meeting. The theme of the current series is Gender Diversity. Prof. Susannah Cornwall of Exeter University will be the presenter with Christian texts. 1200-13:30 on zoom only. Further information.

25 Nov 21. Jaclyn Granick (Cardiff University) 'International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War'. Seminar hosted by The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute and the Centre for Jewish Studies. 4 - 6pm. This event will be available both online via Zoom, as well as being streamed on South Campus. Further information.

2 Dec 21. Scriptural Encounter meeting. The theme of the current series is Gender Diversity. Will be on Islamic texts. POSTPONED until further notice. Further information.

7 Dec 21. Dr Stefania Silvestri “Not Only Books: Understanding Artefacts in the Rylands Gaster Collection”. 2 - 3.30pm, online. Part of the Gaster Seminar series. Joint event with CJS and JRRI. Further information.

9 Dec 21. Anne Knowles (University of Maine) ‘Spatial Histories of the Holocaust'. Joint seminar with History and digital humanities. - CANCELLED

9 Dec 21. Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies 2021. 8pm. Further information.

2020

28 Jan 20. Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) and Chief Historian of Yad Vashem. Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies. Lecture 1: The Impact of the Holocaust on Israel's Foreign Policy. 6pm A101 Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.

29 Jan 20. Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) and Chief Historian of Yad Vashem. Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies. Lecture 2: The Working Definition of Antisemitism – Holocaust related Contents and Debates. 6pm A101 Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.

31 Jan 20 Jean-Marc Dreyfus has organised the workshop 'Looted Music, sources and research method', in Paris. Further information.

6 Feb 20. Bernard Jackson (Liverpool Hope University) ‘Ruth, Rachel and Domestic Religion’ 2pm, Room 5.206, University Place, Manchester. As part of the Ehrhardt seminars. Further information.

11 Feb 20. JMRN seminar. Aaron Hughes (Rochester University) “The Shīʿa are the Jews of Our Umma”: Rethinking Alterity in Medieval Islam. 4-6pm, Seminar Room C, Crawford House, University of Manchester. Further information.

12 Feb 20. JMRN seminar. Sami Everett (Cambridge) 'A French Jewish-Muslim Panorama: Initiatives, Euphemisms and Elisions…'.1-2.30pm. Room S3.6, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

12 Feb 20. CJS and JMRN panel and plenary on “Belonging and alienation in academic practices: Jewish studies and Jewish identities in comparative perspective”, with Aaron Hughes (Rochester University), Sami Everett (Cambridge) and Alex Samely (Manchester). 3-6pm Room 3.204 University Place, University of Manchester. Further information.

18 Feb 20. Bryan Cheyette will give a lecture on ‘Beyond Ghettos of the Imagination: From Venice to L.A.’ (A7, Samuel Alexander Building), 5-7pm. As part of the CIDRAL series.

19 Feb 20. Bryan Cheyette will give a Seminar on ‘The Metaphorical Thinking of Zygmunt Bauman’ (A112, Samuel Alexander Building), 2-4pm. As part of the CIDRAL series.

19 Feb 20. Artist Helena Tomlin will give a public workshop on 'Museum of Me Collage' as part of the 50 Jewish Objects project. 2-4pm Manchester Central Library. Further information.

27 Feb 20. Caroline Kaye (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘What's Luke got to do with it? Relating the disputation as portrayed in painting to its textual origins’, 2pm, Room 5.206, University Place, Manchester. As part of the Ehrhardt seminars. Further information.

5 Mar 20. Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of עיר in 11Q19: Spatiality’, 2pm, Room 5.206, University Place, Manchester. As part of the Ehrhardt seminars. Further information.

19 Mar 20. Melissa Raphael (University of Gloucestershire)“The (Dis)appearing Feminine: Jewish Feminist Art and the Liberation of Women and God from Captivity to Idols”. As part of the R&T seminar series. 4pm, room 2.217, University Place, Manchester University.

25 Mar 20. Artist Nicola Dale will give a public workshop on her work as part of the 50 Jewish Objects project. 2-4pm John Rylands library. Further information. POSTPONED.

26 Mar 20. Scriptural Encounters meeting. 4-5.30pm A115 Samuel Alexander building. Further information. POSTPONED.

30 Apr 20. Scriptural Encounters meeting. 4-5.30pm A115 Samuel Alexander building. Further information. POSTPONED

7 May 20. Anna Rowland (University of Durham), “Reading Simone Weil in the East End of London: Asylum Destitution, De-creation and the History of Force”. As part of the R&T seminar series. 4pm, room 2.217, University Place, Manchester University. POSTPONED

18 May 20. Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies. Miri Freud-Kandel (Oxford) 'Spades and Shovels: Jacobs, Northern Grit, and the Reshaping of British Jewry'. Further information. POSTPONED

19-20 May 20. JMRN Conference 2020: Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations’. The Sherman Conversations 2020. Further information. POSTPONED

14 May 20. JMRN reading group. Hosted online using Zoom 4-5pm. Further information.

28 May 20. Scriptural Encounters meeting. The theme will be Islam and Women, looking mainly at issues of witnessing, leadership, and modesty. Presenter Dr Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster). 4-5.30pm Zoom meeting. Further information.

25 June 2020. Scriptural Encounter meeting. The theme will be Christian perspectives on leadership women Presenters Rev. Dr. Caroline Wickens and Jasmine Devadason. 4 - 5:30pm Zoom meeting. Further information.

16 July 2020. Scriptural Encounter meeting. The theme will be Jewish perspectives on women's leadership, Progressive and Orthodox respectively. Presenters Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen and Rabba Dina Brawer. 4 - 5:30pm Zoom meeting. Further information.

22-23 September 2020. Dr Katharina Keim is organising the first Nordic Postgraduate Forum in Jewish Studies. The event will take place via zoom, and all are welcome. Further information.

1 Oct 20. Dr Nijay K Gupta (Northern Seminary, Illinois), “Reconstructing Junia's Imprisonment: Examining a Neglected Comment in Romans 16:7”. 16:00 - 17:30 Zoom meeting. As part of the Religions & Theology seminar series. Further information

22 Oct 20. Prof. George Brooke (University of Manchester, University of Chester) ‘Esoteric Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls’. 14:00 - 16:00 Zoom meeting. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. Further information.

5 Nov 20. Prof. Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham) ‘The Community Rules: Florilegia from a Forthcoming Commentary’ 14:00 - 16:00 Zoom meeting. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. Further information.

12 Nov 20. Rob Kanter (University of Manchester) “Interactions between British Converts to Islam and Anglo-Jewry, c.1900-39” 16:00 - 17:30 Zoom meeting. As part of the Religions & Theology Seminar series. Further information.

17 Nov. Screen & Talk UK Premiere of 'Transkids'. This screening is sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies and part of the UK Jewish Film Festival taking place on 5-19 November 2020. 7.30pm, online. Further information.

3 Dec 20. Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’ 14:00 - 16:00 Zoom meeting. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. Further information.

3 Dec 20. Jean-Marc Dreyfus will be delivering the Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture (online) on “Mischling: the contrasted destiny of 'half-jews' in the Third Reich, between persecution and survival.” 17.30 - 19.00 online event. Further information.

3 Dec 20. Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies. Miri Freud-Kandel (Oxford) Spades and Shovels: Louis Jacobs, Northern Grit, and the Reshaping of British Jewry. 8pm zoom meeting. Further information.

8 Dec 20. Prof Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky): ‘“It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’. 5-7pm. Joint event with CJS and CIDRAL. Further information. Recording of lecture can be found here.

10 Dec 20. Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of ‘ir in 11Q19: Spatiality’ 14:00 - 16:00 Zoom meeting. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. Further information.

2019

21 Jan 19. Fresh Light on Cleopatra. Sarah Pearce (Southampton). Part of the AIAS lecture series. 7.30pm at Sephardi Synagogue, 24 Wicker Lane, Hale Barns Cheshire WA15 0HQ. Further information.

24 Jan 19. Conversations on the Story of the Binding/Sacrifice of Isaac/Ishmael in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Story in Judaism. Led by Philip Alexander and Bobby Silverman (venue: A116 Samuel Alexander Building). Further information.

30 Jan 19. The Jewish Historical Society Manchester Branch, partnering with The Centre for Jewish Studies, will have its first lecture of 2019. Professor Philip Alexander (Manchester) will give a talk on 'A Non-Jew Looks at Jewish History: Fifty Years Studying and Teaching Judaism.' 19.30 in A113 Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Book your place through jhsmanchester@gmail.com. Further information.

7 Feb 19. Making a Jewish Life: An Ethnographic Approach to Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom. Dr. Lea Taragin Zeller (Cambridge). R&T research seminar. 4pm at Room 6.212, University Place, University of Manchester.

26 Feb 19. Screen & Talk showing of ‘Hitler versus Picasso and the others. The Nazi obsession for art’ followed by Q&A with Jean-Marc Dreyfus who appears in the film and chaired by David Berkley QC. HOME Manchester 6pm. Further information.

26 Feb 19. CIDRAL Public Lecture 'Do the Humanities Make You a Better Person? A Foundational Myth About Higher Education’. Sander Gilman (Emory University). 5-7pm Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre. Further information.

27 Feb 19. CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar ‘The Humanities and Professional Education: Fables and Fallacy’. Sander Gilman (Emory University). 1-3pm Room 2.02, Mansfield Cooper Building. Further information.

27 Feb 19. Cathy Gelbin (Manchester) inaugural lecture “‘Citizens of nowhere’: German-Jewish Questions for the 21st Century”. From the Wandering Jew to the rootless parasite, as capitalist, cosmopolitan, socialist internationalist (and Zionist), Jews have become seen as modern Europe’s key in- and outsiders, culminating in the National Socialist and Stalinist persecutions of Jews as “rootless Cosmopolitans.” Traversing literary, film, German, Jewish, gender and sexuality studies, the talk traces the ruptures and continuities in Jewish responses to these paradigms of otherness from the Enlightenment to the present, and across the historical divide of the Holocaust. Exploring the diverse views of Jewishness that emerge when Jewish Studies and postmodernism meet, and consider the role of popular culture – from the Golem to Superman, from Early German cinema to Holocaust film – in shaping the modern voices and perceptions of Jews. The talk introduces you to a German-Jewish memorial project of sorts, which has come full circle in the present: as a tribute to the Jewish intellectual pioneers who have shaped, chronicled and lived through the momentous times of modernity, and whose predicament continues to reverberate in our own. 5.00pm in the Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building and there will be an opportunity to speak with Professor Gelbin after her talk over celebratory drinks in Room A4. It would be helpful for catering purposes, if you could let me (Bethany.pedder@manchester.ac.uk) know if you will be attending.

27 Feb 19. The Jewish Historical Society Manchester Branch second meeting will be at 19.30 in A113 Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Dr Toby Haggith (Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum) will give a talk on 'The hunt for the identity of the voice of the ‘harangue’ in German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (1945-2014).' Book your place through jhsmanchester@gmail.com. Further information.

28 Feb 19. Conversations on the Story of the Binding/Sacrifice of Isaac/Ishmael in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Story in Christianity. Led by Philip Alexander and Caroline Wickens (venue: A116 Samuel Alexander Building). Further information.

6 March 19. Katharina Keim will be giving a seminar presentation on 'Ethical challenges in early Twentieth Century Samaritan Manuscript Collecting’ at 3-4.30pm, A112 Samuel Alexander Building, as part of the 'Lives of Letters' seminar series. Further information.

12 Mar 19. The Jewish Historical Society Manchester Branch third meeting, in partnership with MMU and RAH, will be at 18.30. This is a two-part programme that will start with a talk by Dr Rachel Lichtenstein on The Vanishing Street - a sense of belonging, stories in film from the old Jewish East End of London. Part two of the programme will be talk given by Isabel Taube on Granada Television’s Jewish Identity. The two talks will be followed by a conversation between the two speakers about their respective research. Further information.

14 March 19. Mika Pajunen (Helsinki),' Models of Textual Development and the Dead Sea Scrolls'. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. 2pm University Place 2.219, University of Manchester.

28 Mar 19. Conversations on the Story of the Binding/Sacrifice of Isaac/Ishmael in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Story in Islam. Led by Philip Alexander and Mohammed Ullah (venue: A116 Samuel Alexander Building). Further information.

1 May 19. Stefania Silvestri will be giving a seminar presentation on 'Weizmann before Israel: Letters between Chaim and Charles Prestwich (Scott)' at 3-4.30pm, Room A112, Samuel Alexander Building, as part of the 'Lives of Letters' seminar series. Further information.

8 May 19. Stefania Silvestri will be presenting the '50 Jewish Objects project' as part of the Sadler Seminar Series, The Archive After Cecil Roth: Jewish Studies, cultural history and the Cecil Roth Collection. 4-5.30pm, Brotherton Room, University of Leeds. Further information.

18 Sept 19. Brahim El Guabli (Williams College, USA). JMRN seminar. 4pm 4.211, University Place, University of Manchester. Further information.

23 Sept 19. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies. Lecture 1: The Concept of Illegality: Defining the ‘Other’. 6pm A113 Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.

24 Sept 19. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies. Lecture 2: Illegality and the Migrant Experience: From Mandate Palestine to Lampedusa. 6pm A113 Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.

27 Sept 19. Michael Miller (FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg). JMRN reading group. 1pm S4.23, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

10 Oct 19. Mary Mills (Newman University),'Memorialising Jeremiah’s Jerusalem: Walking the City with Walter Benjamin'. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. 2pm Room 5.206 University Place, University of Manchester. Further information.

11 Oct 19. Robert Kanter (Manchester). JMRN reading group. 12.30pm WG.21, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

14 Oct 19. Esra Özyürek (London School of Economics). JMRN seminar. 2pm G35, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

16 Oct 19. Leslie Topp (Birkbeck College). 'Modern Architecture Through the Lens of Antisemitism, and Vice Versa'. 5pm Lecture Theatre G.19, Mansfield Cooper Building. As part of the Art History seminar series. Further information.

17 Oct 19. Scriptural Encounter meeting, A115 Samuel Alexander Building, 4 - 5.30pm. Further information.

20 Oct 19. Sherry Ashworth will chair an event with the author Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, at the Manchester Literature Festival 2pm at Manchester Central Library. Further information.

24 Oct 19. Being Jewish In Victorian Fiction literature group. Short course will be run by Sherry Ashworth. This session will look at Daniel Deronda. 6pm in the Lower Ground Floor activity room at the Manchester Central Library. Further information.

31 Oct 19. Being Jewish In Victorian Fiction literature group. Short course will be run by Sherry Ashworth. This session will look at Reuben Sachs. 6pm in the Lower Ground Floor activity room at the Manchester Central Library. Further information.

5 Nov 19. George Brooke (Manchester) giving the Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology. Lecture 1: The Dead Sea Scrolls: the finds and their contexts. The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London. 6.30pm. Further information.

7 Nov 19. Aaron W. Hughes (Rochester University, USA). JMRN seminar. 4pm 2.217, University Place, University of Manchester. Further information. CANCELLED.

7 Nov 19. Menorah Synagogue Choir performing as part of the 50 Jewish Objects project. 5.30pm John Rylands Library. Further information.

12 Nov 19. George Brooke (Manchester) giving the Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology. Lecture 2:The material culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London. 6.30pm. Further information.

14 Nov 19. Being Jewish In Victorian Fiction literature group. Short course will be run by Sherry Ashworth. This session will look at Children of the Ghetto. 6pm in the Lower Ground Floor activity room at the Manchester Central Library. Further information.

14 Nov 19. Scriptural Encounter meeting, A115 Samuel Alexander Building, 4 - 5.30pm. Further information.

15 Nov 19. Adi S. Bharat (Manchester). JMRN reading group. 12.30pm WG.21, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

17 Nov. Screen & Talk showing of 'Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles', 3.40pm, HOME. As part of the UK Jewish Film Festival. Further information.

19 Nov 19. George Brooke (Manchester) giving the Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology. Lecture 3:The Dead Sea Scrolls and their cultural contexts. The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London. 6.30pm. Further information.

21 Nov 19. George J. Brooke (University of Chester),'Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls'. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. 2pm Room 5.206 University Place, University of Manchester. Further information.

1 Dec 19. Vessels of Song: Journeys into the worlds of Klezmer. 7pm Cross Street Chapel, Manchester. Ticketed event. Further information.

5 Dec 19. Adrian Curtis (University of Manchester),'Weeping at Bethel: An Old Idea Revisited'. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. 2pm Room 5.206 University Place, University of Manchester. Further information.

6 Dec 19. Zainab Salloo (Manchester). JMRN reading group. 12.30pm WG.21, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

9 Dec 19. Marianne Philips will provide students with an autobiographical account of her flight from Nazi Germany to Britain, followed by Q&A. Organised by Cathy Gelbin. 2pm in Simon building room 5.05. Further information. NOW FULL.

12 Dec 19. Bernard Jackson (University of Liverpool),'Ruth, Rachel and Domestic Religion'. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. 2pm Room 5.206 University Place, University of Manchester. CANCELLED

12 Dec 19. Scriptural Encounter meeting, A115 Samuel Alexander Building, 4 - 5.30pm. Further information.

12 Dec 19. JMRN Symposium on Gender and Sexuality in/around Judaism and Islam. 10 - 6pm Graduate School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester. Further information.

2018

5 Dec 18. The Ghetto and Antisemitism. Bryan Cheyette (Reading).

29 Nov 18. The Problem of Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews Revisited. Philip Alexander (Manchester). As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series.

29 Nov, Scriptural Encounter meeting 'Exclusivism and Supersessionism from a Qur’an Perspective', Mohammed Ullah, Honorary Muslim Chaplain to the Manchester Universities. Reading: Texts from the Qur’an

17 Nov, Screen & Talk film programme - Inside the Mossad

15 Nov, Scriptural Encounter meeting 'Exclusivism and Supersessionism', Dr. Dwight Swanson, Co-Director and Senior Lecturer Manchester Centre for the Study of Christianity and Islam, Nazarene College Reading: Hebrews Chapter 8

8 Nov 18. 'I Will Try to Speak in German': Filip Müller’s Testimony to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the Problem of Translation. Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh). As part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series.

1 Nov 18. Attitudes to Non-Jews Reflected in Old Jewish Prayer Books. Stefan Reif (Cambridge) Co-Sponsored with Centre for Jewish Studies. As part of the Ehrhardt Seminar series. Further information.

18 Oct, Scriptural Encounter meeting 'Exclusivism and Supersessionism', Rabbi Ariel Abel of Princes Road Synagogue, Liverpool. Reading: Exclusivism in Jewish Texts.

16-30 Sept 18 Gelbin curated Shoah Film series, Berlin

26-28 June 18 Postgraduate Jewish Studies workshop

27 June 18 Screen & Talk film programme - T4, un medecin sous le nazisme

2017

21 Nov 17 Screen & Talk film programme - Remember Baghdad

13 Nov 17 Screen & Talk film programme - Wilfrid Israel: The Essential Link

8 Nov 17 Balfour Declaration day-conference

Oct-Nov 17 Holocaust Reading Group

4-6 July 17 Postgraduate Jewish Studies workshop

21 March 17 Astaire Seminar Series Panel: Cosmopolitan Jews

2016

26 October 16 Imperial Museum of the North Day Conference on Children During the Holocaust.

30 June - 1 July 16 Postgraduate Jewish Studies workshop

27-29 June 16 - 'The Other Within: The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of the John Rylands Library' Day Conference

20 April 16 Levinas and the Disruption of Knowing seminar

11 March 16 The Holocaust and European Identity day conference

27-28 Jan 16 Digital Humanities workshop

2015

30 Nov 15 Jewish-Polish workshop

26 Oct 15 Holocaust Workshop at Imperial War Museum

5-7 July 15 British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) conference, Manchester. David Ruderman (Pennsylvania), 'Are Jews the Only True Monotheists?' Podcast.

26-27 Jan 15 Moses Gaster’s scholarship in European context

2014

12 Dec 14 CJS Study Day

20 Dec 14 Holocaust Workshop at Imperial War Museum

8-10 Sept 14 Corpses Project: 3rd Annual Conference

7 Feb 14 Mein Kampf workshop

20 Jan 14 Cosmopolitanism Project Town meeting: Migration and Culture in London’s East End 1800 to the Present

2013

2013 Levinas Reading Group

7 Oct 13 Holocaust day-conference

9-11 Sept 13 Corpses Project: 2nd Annual Conference

14 July 13 Workshop: Social Media and Political Horizons: Israel / Palestine, the Middle East and Beyond

2012

2012 Levinas Reading Group

22 Oct 12 Holocaust day-conference

12-14 Sept 12 Corpses Project: 1st Annual Conference

1-4 July 12 International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ), Manchester 2012

01 March 12 Open Evening

2011

2011 Levinas Reading Group

25 Nov 11 Medical Ethics Conference

10 Nov 11 Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society Lecture

10 Oct 11 New Directions in Holocaust Research Conference

26 May 11 Anglo-Israel Archeaological Society Lecture

13 May 11 Holocaust Workshop

2008

2008 Religion and the Welfare State Lecture Series

2008 W. G. Sebald Seminar

2008 JudaicaFest (2008)

2008 Anti-Semitism and the Emergence of Sociological Theory Conference (2008)

2007

2007 Continuing education course: Frank Adam, "The Arab Israel Conflict: A History with Complexities" and Ya'akov Wise, "Piety, Poverty and Persecution; A Radical New Look at Anglo-Jewish History 1880-1980"

2006

2006 Continuing education course: Frank Adam, "A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict", Clive Gilbert, "Russian Jewry 1800-1917", and Jeremy Michelson, "The Holocaust - A World Tragedy'

2005

2005 Continuing education course: Jeremy Michelson, "The History of the Jews in the Middle Ages', Michael Tunnicliffe, "Five Hebrew Scrolls" and Frank Adam, "A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

2004

2004 Continuing education course: Frank Adam, "A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

2003

2003 Rabbinics Seminar Series: On the Chief Rabbi's essay

2003 Continuing education course: Jeremy Michelson and Clive Gilbert, "Two centuries of Russian Jewry" and Frank Adam "Israel"

2002

2002 Jewish Heritage at Rylands Day Conference

2002 Bernard Jackson, "Agunah: The Halakhic Sources"

2001

2001 Southport Rep Council Lecture Series: "Us and Them: Jewish Identity, Ancient and Modern"

2001 MMU Lectures on "Jews in Society"

2000

2000 Limmud Day

2000-01 Extra-mural lectures: Abstracts/Transcripts

1998

1998 Professor Jackson on "An Academician's View of Jewish Law", 18 November 1998 (full text)

1998 Manchester and Zionism: The Community, the University and the State of Israel Day Conference (21 October)

1998-99 Extra-mural lectures Abstracts/Transcripts

OTHER PODCASTS

1 Nov 2017: Moshe Behar, 'Birth of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Controversy on the "Arab Question" (1910-12)' (Oxford University). Podcast.

26 Sept 2017: Daniel Langton, 'The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination' (St Joseph's University, Philadelphia) Podcast.

21 Nov 2017: Renate Smithuis, 'The Crawford and Gaster Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library: Creation of an Online Catalogue'. Podcast

6 July 2015: David Ruderman (Pennsylvania), 'Are Jews the Only True Monotheists?' (BAJS conference, Manchester) Podcast.

30 April 2015: Emile G. L. Schrijver (Amsterdam), 'Working with The John Rylands Research Institute'. Podcast.

27 Oct 2014: Alex Samely 'Written Religion: Some New Avenues in Analyzing Ancient Jewish Texts' at Harvard Divinity School. Podcast.

2 July 2014: Ion Popa 'The Orthodox Church and the revival of antisemitism in Romania' at the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester. Podcast.

MISCELLANEOUS

Some fellows constributions

Liturgical Collaboration by Rev. Roger Tomes
Omer Counter by Pauline Frankenberg
Fascism in Manchester by Dr. Yaakov Wise
Sir Sidney Hamburger by Bill Williams

Survey of Jewish Studies courses in the UK, collated by Centre for Jewish Studies in association with BAJS

2007-08; 2005-06; 2004-05; 2003-04; 2002-03; 2001-02; 2000-01

For more recent surveys, see BAJS surveys.