See the impact of last year’s JHSE award winners, including, amongst many outstanding projects: 💥Nudrat Afza’s powerful photographs of #Bradford Jewry 💥Kehillah, featured at Bradford’s City of Culture celebrations 💥Historic Towns Trust map of Jewish #Ipswich & more! www.jhse.org/post/jhse-aw...

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here is the decorated initial-word panel with birds and hybrids, at the beginning of the book of Esther #Purim Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 3; Pentateuch with Onkelos, Five Scrolls and Haftarot; 13th century; f.233r @BDLSS

Tickets going fast for my talk at The London Archives on the Jews of medieval London and their role in the 1267 siege of the Tower. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-...

Purim begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here are some people in the margins celebrating Purim. #Purim BL Add MS 26968; 'Forli Sidur'; 1383 CE; Italy; f.209v

The Bodleian #Library bodleian.ox.ac.uk (@ox.ac.uk) holds what is regarded as the best collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world. Many are fully digitised! 📕 Find out more ⬇️ 📕 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. It is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... New edition of the Ferrara bible sheds light on research into Jews who fled Spain and lived in #16thCentury Italy

Sephardi Voices UK is a collection, accessed through @britishlibrary.bsky.social, that's focused on Middle Eastern Jewry, and Holocaust testimonies. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/sep... #JewishHistory #Archives

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

Ahead of The Winchester Gallery’s Bernat Klein exhibition (20 Apr–30 May), join the Colour & Contexts seminar! Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum & Bruce Montgomery explore men’s dress, identity & colour. 📌 5 March 2026, 2–3.30pm, Lecture Theatre A + Teams. @unisouthampton.bsky.social

The beginning of Torah portion Tetsaveh (תְּצַוֶּה) is marked by this elaborate design. #ParashahPictures BnF Hébreu 29; Bible; 15th century; f.56v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

There’s still time to book for ‘Jewish Worlds and Words in Medieval England’! On Mon Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and I will be at the British Library, talking about the Jews of Medieval England, Christian knowledge of Hebrew and the world of medieval Anglo-Jewry. Do join us events.bl.uk/events/jewis...

📣CANCELLED: today’s NGG Book Talk with Elizabeth Imber (24 Feb, 16:00 UK). We’ll reschedule ASAP – watch this space for the new date + Zoom info.

www.codicum.eu/news-and-eve... Tuomas Heikkilä is hiring a 4-year fully funded PhD in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of Helsinki within the ERC Synergy Project CODICUM. Interested in medieval studies, philology, history, art history, etc!

NGG Book Talk 📚 Join us with Elizabeth E. Imber for a talk and Q&A on her latest book, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism". 🗓 Tue 24 Feb 2026 🕓 16:00 (UK time) 💻 Online (Zoom) 📩 DM us for the link or email: [email protected] (or check our newsletter)

New Book by Alec Mishory and Ilil Arbel: Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Jewish Visual Culture and Art. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20576

I was very excited ordering this up yesterday! Obviously, I then had to get the Jewish receipt rolls out where the serious excitement is to be found!

Deadline to apply is this Friday!

We're now on @jisc.bsky.social Archives Hub 🎉 Archives Hub is a way to discover thousands of the UK's archive collections. Our page is here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/theme... 📷 Hari Jonkers, Archivist at Holocaust Centre North, with an item from their collection • Hidden Treasures/Drew Forsyth

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah Portion Terumah (תרומה) with an owl. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible', 1476 CE, La Coruña, Spain; f.49r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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