Step into the vibrant world of London’s East End through the Yiddish press. From 1884 to 1954, local writers captured immigrant life in vivid urban sketches that are deeply moving. On March 8, join us as we bring these drawings to life: shorturl.at/c6wYn #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Yiddish

Genizah Fragment (Or.1080 J23): a late 12th century love letter. Perahya is in Cairo and misses his wife, Umm Thana: “Of late my yearning has become so strong that I am not able to bear it anymore." He invites her to join him, promising she can choose her own carpets. 🤔 https://loom.ly/h2W1pMI

Happy 200th birthday to UCL, the first English university to admit Jews. Hebrew and Jewish Studies have been taught at UCL since day one. #UCL200 Learn more about the the history of @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @artshumsucl.bsky.social @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social

"When the young artist Peter Kien was about to be deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto, he found a secret trapdoor to immortality, and it took the form of a nondescript brown suitcase." @jewishchron.bsky.social

Prepping my genocide course and it's really sad to reflect on the fact that the United States Army was the first in the world to codify the law of war and prohibit crimes against civilians. It formed the basis for the later Hague and Geneva Conventions. And it was drafted by a Jewish immigrant.

Some recent photos of school students learning about Scotland's incredible Jewish history. We offer visits to primary and secondary groups that support learning on Judaism, Jewish immigration to Scotland, and the Holocaust era. 🎟️ Book your class visit today! 🔗 Link in our bio.

New book -- Medieval Matters: Europe’s Premodern Religious Cultures. Studies in Honour of Miri Rubin. Edited by M. Champion, K. Ihnat, E. Poleg, and M. Žonca. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20515

💶 apply for funding through European Association of Jewish Studies for conferences, workshops, etc! Deadline 26th March

HJS Research Fellow Abigail Pearson has discovered a previously unidentified version of the Syriac Book of Medicines at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Call for Applications: Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 22 June-3 July 2026 - in collaboration with @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Deadline to apply 20th Feb! www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...

Leo Baeck Institute – Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20419

New article by Ilil Baum: "Jewish Vernacular Medical Knowledge in the Crown of Aragon. MS Munich 291." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20412

New article by Julie A. Harris: "A Leap of Faith: Yitzhak Caro’s “Tefillin Case” and the Quest for Sephardic Material Culture," in Medieval Treasures of Toledo Cathedral (2026). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20522

We are pleased to announce our Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop, which will take place from 22 June-3 July 2026! Applications are due by noon (UK time) on February 20th. For course and application details, see the following page: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... #oxford #Summer2026 #Manuscripts

The German-Jewish Archives at the University of Sussex have collections that show the political, social, literary and intellectual German-Jewish history with a focus on Jewish refugees in the UK during and after WW2. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/ger... #Archives

The Windows of Middle Street Synagogue #Brighton Or Two Strads & a Pomegranate Tue 24 Feb 19:30 In Zoom A look at the stained glass windows of Middle Street Synagogue and famous & not so famous people connected with them £5 - members free Book ⬇️ www.jhse.org/event-detail...

📢 Exciting opportunity for ECRs & postgrads! Applications are open for 'Holocaust Studies: Navigating the Field', a one-day networking event for ECRs & postgrads at the Imperial War Museum on 26 May 2026. More details below, apply by 31 March ⬇️

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

I edited a thing! Because everything is better if it links back to the medieval Lincoln Jewry, I edited an entire volume on the topic. Coming from Arc Humanities Press in May!

Yesterday and today marks Tu BiShvat also known as Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot, translated as "New Year to the Trees" 🌳 In this blog, Dawn Waterman of @boardofdeputies.bsky.social writes about her own memories of the festival and imagining being a fruit: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/if-you-...

What links a sock, a girl's diary and a glass jar from 1873? Our 2024 visit to @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social was a dive into their collections exploring Manchester's Jewish community. Read our blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect... #JewishHistory #JewishCommunity #Manchester

#OnThisDay in 1851 barrister, scientist & inventor Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons was born. The family papers provide a glimpse into his research on electricity, motor vehicles and the improvement of the construction of fire proof buildings buff.ly/HnTWPk4

Tomorrow evening! Especially for early-career scholars in Jewish studies…

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Apply for a #grant of up to £4k for research related to Anglo-Jewry. Individuals and institutions may apply: professional or lay scholars, PhD students, organisations, museums, libraries, archives. Deadline: April 2026 Visit: www.jhse.org/jhse-awards www.jhse.org/post/jhse-gr...

🚨New blog post!🚨 Learn more about #Hampshire’s #Jewish community in this piece by Immy Tozer, who writes about the Historic Jewish Hampshire project as part of her fellowship with with @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...

‘I will finish your work’: one woman’s fight for the Jewish art and letters her mother saved from the Nazis. Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have a new home in the UK after a campaign by Judy King. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... via @theguardian.com

"On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6 Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, writes today on the RHS blog. #Skystorians

HJS Research Fellow Abigail Pearson has discovered a previously unknown Syriac version of the ‘Revelation of Ezra’ (a famous medieval text used to predict the coming year based on the day of the week on which it began)

The theme for tomorrow's Holocaust Memorial Day is Bridging Generations. This photograph, held by @holocaustnorth.bsky.social, shows Berta Klipstein and her grandmother in Bielska, Poland, 1935. Find out more about her experiences here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/be... #Archives #HMD

Event happening tonight (Mon 26 Jan 2026)! Professor Zoë Waxman will be giving this year's David Cesarani Memorial Lecture in a talk entitled, 'Packing for an unknown destination: possession and dispossession in the Holocaust'.  Last chance to sign-up: buff.ly/tawG6Ph

Torah portion Beshalach (בְּשַׁלַּח), which tells of Pharaoh's pursuit of the Israelites crossing through sea, is marked with a design in gold with blue penwork. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.43r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Only 3 weeks until the CfP closes — come join us for our third NGG conference at UCL!

Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (20-21 April, Oxford). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20291

Apply for up to £ 9,500 for a conference/graduate conference/workshop/summer- or winterschool in any field pertaining to Jewish Studies through the Conference Grant Programme, European Association for Jewish Studies. Deadline 26 March 2026 Full details: www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...

Remember to apply for the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism (OSI)! Applications are due by February 2nd! #oxford #Summer2026

Want to make the most of Jewish Book Week with discounted tickets, weekly bundle offers, priority booking, and more? Sign up to our newsletter for exclusive offers you won't want to miss. Your Jewish Book Week experience is about to get that much better: shorturl.at/eB8QI

News | New chief executive appointed at Manchester Jewish Museum Interim CEO also recruited to cover Gemma Meek's maternity leave

The University of Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Bo (בֹּא) #ParashahPictures BL Or 2696; Torah with Rash's commentary; 14th century; Germany; f.122v

Our collection of printed materials includes over 50k books, 15k pamphlets and 500 manuscripts. These include many rare items with unique collections on the Holocaust, Jewish history and antisemitism We have digitised a wide selection, which are available via our online archive 🔗

Super excited to have had a paper accepted for the European Association for Urban History, which will be held in *Barcelona*! Tash Jenman and I (both of @ochjs.bsky.social) will present a paper entitled 'A Room of One's Own? Jews and the Towns of Medieval England'.

Applications for the 2027 Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Essay Prize in German-Jewish Studies close on 28 February 2026 For full details, competition rules, and instructions on how to submit your manuscript, please see: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/publications...

NGG Social & Networking Event 📣 Join us for a 2026 catch-up: meet other NGG members, share what you’re working on, and chat plans for the year ahead. 🗓 Thu 29 Jan 🕖 19:00–20:00 (UK time) 💻 Online (Zoom) 📩 DM us for the link or email: [email protected]

3 months today, we'll be kicking off proceedings, with the Oxford Medieval Jewish Walking Tour (optional) - and possibly a little trip to the pub! Registration for the conference will 6 March (4pm). Programme (including registration link): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Introducing NGG Work Groups 🎉 Meet regularly with other PGRs/ECRs in your area of Jewish Studies to exchange writing, swap resources/reading recs, and build networks and future collaborations! Interested? Fill out this form: forms.gle/QF84jCbwnHdJ...

Come and hear me (@lincolnmedieval.bsky.social and @ochjs.bsky.social) and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (both @ochjs.bsky.social) talk about the Jews of medieval England @britishlibrary.bsky.social on 2 March! jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/jewis...

Do you need support to help preserve and showcase European Jewish heritage? Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe grants are now open for applications, including for collections management, exhibitions and digital heritage projects. Find out more here: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...

Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians

#Ressource | Call for submissions for a Special issue of Religions on Polemics and Conversion - Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Deadline for intended contributions: February 28, 2026 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026