Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social collections!

We're excited to present you with NGG's academic programme for this winter term! Looking forward to seeing you! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

Come work for me! 👇🏻 @biahs1.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @ehri-project.eu

From 1937, the West London Synagogue's itinerary for a tour of London illustrating Anglo-Jewish history. It details "places to be visited" and "notes thereon" @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.

A nice post from @unisouthampton.bsky.social remembering Edgar Feuchtwanger, whose generosity to me as his rather less illustrious replacement as tutor in Gernan history i remember well www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

📢 New blog! Our MA Holocaust: History, Experience Heritage students organised a field trip to Poland, including to the POLIN museum, Warsaw Ghetto and Eagle Pharmacy. Read more here: 📆If you're interested in studying the Holocaust, we're still accepting applications to our MA until 9th September!

The seminars will be held online every other month from October 2025 to May 2026. To contribute, please get in touch with us via [email protected] @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

Now the contract is signed, my postdoc project 'Figuring the Wandering Jew: Jewish Artists and the Redrawing of Europe' with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social begins! I'll be in Berlin for the next month then based at the Winchester Gallery

Extended deadline til 5th October! 📜

Extended deadline til 10th September! >>>

The @royalmusical.bsky.social is honouring me with a roundtable to discuss the implications of my book both for scholarship and for the contemporary musical world at its annual conference next week - very much hope to see musical friends there! Listing below: www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc/...

💡Want to study the Holocaust this academic year? 📢Last call for applications for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage! 📆We're accepting applications until Tuesday, 9 September 2025. youtube.com/shorts/xImzv...

Congratulations to our newly minted doctor!

Check out this new piece by our research fellow Emily-Rose Baker on Auschwitz-Birkenau’s new digital camp replica! @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social @theconversationuk.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-problem-...

📖 www.wsro.org.uk/product/book... Join us at this event to hear Professor Tony Kushner from the University of Southampton speak about his work. There will also be an opportunity to view original documents relating to West Hoathly, the scene of the crime.

Why I had to become a murder detective for my book about an 18th-century Jewish pedlar. Tony Kushner (@parkesinstitute.bsky.social) for @uk.theconversation.com, read it here: theconversation.com/why-i-had-to... 'The Jewish Pedlar' is out now in hardback. #booksky #history

If you weren't planning to be in Vienna on 30 October you still have time to change your schedule - looking forward to sharing a few thoughts with colleagues there: oegmw.at/veranstaltun...

🔗Registration here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multidisci...

Join us in Southampton or online for the conference "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Apocalypticism in the 7th-9th Centuries" (Sept. 1-3), organised by Helen Spurling @helenspurling.bsky.social. Bursaries available for those who may like to attend in person! www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Really wasn’t expecting a review in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social but thanks very much!

Deadline next week for extremely subsidised places at Limmud this December, along with bespoke training on presenting for public audiences and opportunities for peer-led mentoring! All Jewish studies PGRs and ECRs (within 5 years of submitting, w/o permanent academic positions) invited to apply ➡️

Conny Kristel Fellowships - deadline 28 September 2025. providing short term research access to 21 institutions in 9 countries. More information & to apply www.ehri-project.eu/conny-kriste... @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social

📜 Catching up … Having successfully passed my Viva in May, defending my doctoral thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse' examined by Leonid Livak (Toronto) and James Jordan (Southampton), supervised by Devorah Baum & @clairelefoll.bsky.social, I graduated yesterday! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

Up there with Esther Rantzen - just saying.

🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu

Nice to be back in @historytoday.com after a wee gap of 15 years, with a few thoughts on Alec Ryrie’s new ‘The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It’. Interesting, enjoyable, not entirely persuasive but I have tried to disagree well.

📚 Find out more about Tony Kushner's latest book, 'The Jewish Pedlar: An untold criminal history' (‪@manchesterup.bsky.social) in our new blog post about the recent launch event at @octoberbooks.bsky.social. parkesinstituteblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/p...

It was a pleasure to talk with @melekfirataltay.bsky.social for the New Books Network podcast - megaphone.link/NBNK4795577331

Soton History's Prof Neil Gregor questions the significance of Hitler's Mein Kampf for the resurgent far right in the latest article from ICWA's Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/mein-kampf...

The Wandering Jew takes Scotland! Exhibition on display at #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social for all attending… @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🕯️

#BIAJS2025 panel on the wandering Jew with Richard Cohen, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, and @anoushka-ar.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

#BIAJS2025 Storytelling: Nee perspectives on British and other Jewish histories, with Tony Kushner, Gavin Schaffer and Hannah Ewence — legends talking about their brilliant new books. @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social

🚨 One week left to apply to our Visiting Fellow programme! Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026. Deadline: Thursday, 10 July 2025 www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

📣JOB ALERT📣 Are you passionate about data and making a difference in the public sector? The National Archives is looking for a talented data specialist to transform archival metadata bringing history to life. Application deadline 29 July 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS940/r... #digitalhumanities

🚨Now out🚨 Very happy to have contributed a chapter to Nick Underwood and Meredith Scott's book and to be in such good company! www.routledge.com/Jewish-Ideas...

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis on German-Jewish letters sent during the Holocaust. Thank you to my fantastic supervisors Joachim and Tony at the @parkesinstitute.bsky.social - and to everyone who has shared their stories and knowledge with me over the last four years - now the viva....

🚨 Two weeks left to apply to our Visiting Fellow programme! Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026. Deadline: Thursday 10 July 2025 www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

Fascinating talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social this evening on Tony Kushner’s @parkesinstitute.bsky.social new book ‘The Jewish Pedlar’ with @manchesterup.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter is out now! sway.cloud.microsoft/2gzksRDxJjKP...

Research Fellowship opportunities now open ⬇️ @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocauststudies.bsky.social @holocaustmusic.bsky.social @ehri-project.eu @holocaustmuseumuk.bsky.social

As part of its New Academic Book Series, The @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is pleased to announce a public lecture by Tony Kushner about his new book, The Jewish Pedlar. June 25th from 6:30 pm. FREE tickets: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t... In partnership with @parkesinstitute.bsky.social.

First call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is open! Deadline 23 July 2025. Short term access for researchers, archivists, librarians, & curators @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Imperial War Museum @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...

📅 Apply by 10 July to be a visiting fellow at @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ) @unisouthampton.bsky.social ) bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/06/13/p...

Come to BIAJS to hear excellent Parkesian papers, inc: @anoushka-ar.bsky.social on the Wandering Jew @samsamev.bsky.social on Maimonides Visiting Fellow Shaul Marmari on Baghdad @josephfinlay.bsky.social on imperialism Tony Kushner on pedlars and ports & Honorary Fellow Hannah Ewence on heritage!

Exciting developments from Sami Everett as part of the 'Liminal Waters' project, more about which you can read here: chanse.org/liminalwater/

Huge congratulations to our star PhD student and devoted Outreach fellow @charlieknight.bsky.social whose research, teaching and commitment to public engagement activities have enriched the institute and our wider community! An excellent thesis, without a doubt…

Our report about the second NGG conference at the @parkesinstitute.bsky.social is out! Have a read here: www.jhse.org/post/second-... 📑@jewishhistorical.bsky.social

For German-speaking friends and colleagues - it was nice to be invited to chat on Deutschlandfunk's weekly classical music magazine: www.deutschlandfunk.de/das-sinfonie...

So I accepted the invitation to submit to the 'Page 99 test' - quite fun to do. page99test.blogspot.com/2025/06/neil...