And we've got more plans ahead! Interested in learning together and from each other? Please join us for events, follow us on X or Bluesky and sign up for our mailing list. Click here for more information about us: jhse.org/general-9 4/4

Welcome to a new academic year! We take this opportunity to introduce ourselves. The NGG @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social is the Jewish Historical Society of England's network of early-career researchers. 1/4 @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

Rabbi Moses Gaster, an academic and the Chief Rabbi (Hakham) of the Spanish and Portuguese community in London, was born 17 September 1856. @thejohnrylands.bsky.social hold some of his collections: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect... #Archives #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Libraries

CFA: New York University, Visiting Scholar in the study of historical or contemporary antisemitism, Spring 2026. Deadline: October 3, 2025. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18740

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

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

📣 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 Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections for research projects and proposals... buff.ly/dPIDSUU

The author of the book “The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A story of Survival” tells a story of how darkness beyond the imagination could never extinguish the light of humanity at its brightest, bravest and best. 8 Oct 2025 8pm Exact location tbc £10 www.jhse.org/event-detail...

Receive 30% off on this thrilling ride through #18th-century #criminality in England ⬇️ www.jhse.org/post/the-jew...

Come, reach out!

This project from our friends Willesden Jewish Cemetery is accepting volunteers to document Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery in Hackney and pick up some new skills along the way. Find out more here: www.willesdenjewishcemetery.org.uk/events/cemet... #JewishHistory #JewishLondon #Volunteer #Archives

'This is an ambitious, wide-ranging, and deeply humane book.' -- Katrina Goldstone, H-Judaic The Jewish Pedlar by historian Tony Kushner is an imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history. Full review here: networks.h-net.org/group/review... #booksky

The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...

It was a pleasure to work with Rory on this exciting new project! We had so much fun working with the Barbican community!

New book — The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe, eds. Carson Bay et al. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18612

Lovely to see my article on Anglo-Jewry in the Age of King John published! It includes one of my favourite ever starts to an article, as well as one of my favourite lists (and I love a list!). Hopefully I manage to say something useful and, if not, there's a charming E 401/1564 graph on p. 76!

We are pleased to announce the next in our Mini Guide series, Erno Goldfinger, covering the architect's work from 1936-76, exploring his buildings from his own house in Hampstead, to his last projects, the estates with their prominent tower blocks www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/erno-goldfin...

@biajs.bsky.social @mirierubin.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @boardofdeputies.bsky.social

Please join JHSE President Gavin Schaffer tomorrow night - 8 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

Got a project? Half a project? Just a vague, Jewish history daydream? Present it at one of our Work in Progress seminars! Share what you’re currently working on (academic or otherwise — thesis chapters, articles, art) and get constructive feedback from our supportive group.

It's back to school for many this week. This photograph from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social is a girls' Hebrew lesson at the Jews' Free School in 1908. The school has been educating the community since 1732 and continues today. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/jf...

Am I remembering correctly? Is there a plaque on the site of the medieval chamber at Guildford which has been labelled as a synagogue? I've searched my files, and t'inter web, but can't find an image anywhere. Would be obliged if somebody could confirm

We are excited to be sharing our academic programme for the year 2025/26 with you soon. Stay tuned! 📖 🎓 @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

“It’s evening at a remote Sussex pub in 1734 and a vicious triple murder has just taken place.” Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor @unisouthampton.bsky.social spills the beans on “The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History” @manchesterup.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-i-had-to...

In August 1889, London's Jewish tailors went on strike for better conditions. Leaflets were printed in English and Yiddish and by September, 10,000 workers had joined the protest. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/gr... #JewishHistory

#CfP | Conference on "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" at LMU Munich | January 19-21, 2026 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/conf... #manuscripts #bookculture #inscription #architecture #everydaylife #jewisharabrelations Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025

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

St Albans Masorti Synagogue (SAMS) has collected the stories of its community and created three digital archives that reveal personal histories of migration and belonging. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/st-... #JewishHistory #JewishCommunity #Archives #DigitalArchives

In 1899 and 1927, reports in the popular press confirmed that the @jewishhistorical.bsky.social has labelled Lincoln as 'the most interesting city in all of England'. A) correct; b) a view that the Society surely continues to maintain to this day!

www.jhse.org/event-detail... Unorthodox Story: British Jews since 1945 8 Sept 8pm Chigwell Hainault Synagogue Hybrid event JHSE Pres Gavin Schaffer discusses his recently-published book exploring complexities of inclusion & exclusion outside mainstream Jewish communities £5 - Members free Book ⬇️

Taking a brief break from Hebrew commentaries to write my TCE talk on 'Locating the Lincoln Archa'. This gives me a (tangential) excuse to revisit the 1240 Lincoln scrutiny roll. What better way to kick off a long bank holiday break?! TNA E 101/249/4

This evening's manuscript commentary is an unpublished debt owed to Licoricia of Winchester. Given how poorly documented she is, every little helps. That it's in Hebrew makes it even more exciting!

#Blog | Sophia Lambert on the MS 1985 Czech Torah scroll, also known as the Brno scroll | Project: Learning from #Yorkshire's Holocaust Torah ​​scrolls | #UniversityofLeeds #Buchgeschichte #Holocaust #TorahScrolls Details: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/t...

Currently operating as a museum without walls since its Camden home's closure after the pandemic, the London Jewish Museum is looking for a permanent home. . podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... Unusual Histories is in trouble. Please consider donating or sharing. gofund.me/713de166

And now for something completely different. Hebrew pledge notes, for a gospel which was pawned to Canterbury's Jews (several times). This one is special because it was stored, prior to the Reformation just yards away from where I wrote my PhD.

📢We’ve noticed that Google Maps is currently showing us as “permanently closed” – this is not correct! We’re OPEN as usual, 10am–5pm daily (last entry 4pm) and look forward to seeing you. 😊 We’ve asked Google to update it, so hopefully it’ll be fixed soon!

JQR 115.3 is here! We've got: -Early Jewish head coverings -The Talmud & the Aramaic incantation bowls -Israel Naraja -The Palestinian vocalization signs -Yosef Yerushalmi & Walter Benjamin -James Baldwin & Louis Finkelstein Read the TOC +2 free essays!👇 katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Only six commodity bonds, produced after the Statute of the Jewry (1275) survive, and four of them have Hebrew - so I get the pleasure of transcribing them (genuinely therapeutic!). Lacks the simple elegance of an acknowledgement but you can't have everything! TNA C 146/1360.

#Chance | Nominations open for the 2026 Dan David Prize | Open to all academic disciplines in the field of historical studies | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #History #Research #Future #Prize Deadline for nomination: September 24, 2025

Applications are now open for Michaelmas Term classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! This term we will be offering courses for 12 different languages, so be sure to apply by noon on Sept. 12th, UK time! www.ochjs.ac.uk/osrjl-applic... #languagelearning #oxford

Beginning to write my remarks for the Joe Hillaby memorial lecture next month, I am confronted by the daunting task of both saying something new and capturing the historiographical legacy which shaped my own initial approach to the field. Quite a bit of pressure on this one...

Irven Resnick: "Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18336

Have you visited the temporary #exhibition “Adapting to Change” by Beverley-Jane Stewart? 🎨 Beverley traces the transformation of Jewish communal life through the lens of synagogues, capturing the changing identities, and experiences of the people around them. Book your visit: bit.ly/45kba9u

The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books project - developed jointly by LBI London and LBI Jerusalem - was recently featured at the Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo 2025, hosted by the Landecker Digital Memory Lab at the University of Sussex. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

We are accepting applications for the part-time (2-year) role as Network Coordinator until August 10. More info here: shorturl.at/NI9lu Looking forward to hearing from you!

Francis Cardozo was born in 1837 in South Carolina to a formerly enslaved mother & a white Jewish father. He was a prize winning student at the University of Glasgow, twice elected to state office in South Carolina, & principal of an excellent school in DC.

This month, a memorial fountain was unveiled in the grounds of the former Norwood orphanage in London. This treasure from the London Jewish Museum tells you more about the history of the orphanage and celebrations held there: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/su... #JewishHistory #Archives

Excellent opportunities for Holocaust researchers, archivists, librarians, curators and relevant professionals: EHRI-ERIC Call for Applications: Conny Kristel #Fellowship Programme 2025. Access to 22 Holocaust archives and institutions in 9 countries. Apply: www.ehri-project.eu/conny-kriste...

Looking forward to your applications! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social