Where’s the provenance information for these medieval Hebrew Mahzor leaves? Where have they been during their time recycled as bindings? Business as usual?! moreshet-auctions.com/en/auction/1...

I recently posted about our alumna Katya Oicherman’s research and practice. Here is a link: www.oicherman.art/k-art-index/...

Went to a fascinating presentation by Ciara Shalome about her Mizrahistory instagram oral archive. That brought to mind an early Mizrahi resident of London: blog.nli.org.il/en/yohanan_b... Yuhannah Dawud.

Has anyone been listening to the BBC Radio 4 series “Intrigue: Word of God”? Now JTS is exhibiting what purports to be the oldest Jewish codex, a liturgical booklet (quntres) from the 8th century.

My library participates in the Yerusha portal project. Holly Addie, the Yerusha research assistant, has uncovered this child refugee-turned-poet’s archive: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t...

If you can get to Cambridge next week, don’t miss this English-language revival of Sholem Aleichem’s play Stempenyu: www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/pla...

Looking forward to this talk next week. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/sovie...

Our library (university of Leeds) has digitised a very special Torah scroll - once confiscated by the Nazis from Brno: Very nice blog post by our Special collections You can read it here: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...

Holocaust Memorial Day event at University of Leeds on Monday. Close up and personal. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/holoc...

To mark #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, you can help build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of Nazism. We want to digitize 27,000 prisoner registration cards from Auschwitz & other concentration camps. Join in and help! everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en/

A few Ukrainian Judaica that escaped the conflagration of Lviv‘s jewry when Ludwik Lille brought them to Paris. There’s a research project waiting…

I managed to (all too briefly) see the Dybbuk exhibition at the MAHJ in Paris yesterday. I’ll post a few snaps with labels. Here Andrzej Wajda in a stage cemetery in 1988.

Limmud group papercuts inspired by the legendary David Moss.

Almost too tired (and probably brewing the inevitable post-Limmud bug) to light Chanukah candles, but duly lit.

Coexistence…at Limmud dinner.

Listening to Rabbi Rose Prevezer talking about the Jewish-Muslim exhibition project www.laba.berlin/marayeh

If you want Jewish artists to exist and thrive, buy their art. Just bought a tiny etching at Limmud.

Catching the tail end of Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz on four orthodox women rabbis - a tale of loneliness and isolation… or new models beyond power and authority towards advisory and empowering roles.

At Limmud, hearing from David Hochhauser about an exhibition I missed: www.artrabbit.com/events/peopl...

At Limmud, listening to Shirel Horovitz working with 13 artists creating sculptures on her head and going out on the town. Spot a cherry tomato on a skewer: www.shirelhorovitz.com/art-on-the-go

Limmud paper cuts that were made after Shabbat.

Listening to the fascinating Julie Weitz exploring and transgressively transforming Jewish myths. The Golem, the Dybbuk.

Today’s article www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... focuses on the restitution of art works to Alfred Flechtheim’s heirs. I‘ll post more on the human cost in comments.

The Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library is great, but why are apparently only women visiting it?!

The 2024 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture Dr František Šístek (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) on 'Balkan Jews: Hidden History' was absolutely fascinating. I.a. He drew attention to the acts of compassion by Muslim neighbours during the Holocaust. A helpful reminder.

@biajs.bsky.social Delighted to announce the 2024 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture on the Jews of Montenegro: cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/selig...

A brilliant project of library recomposition. www.leobaeck.co.uk/research/lbi...

On 11 December, I will be hosting the 2024 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture: cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/selig...

An article by colleague Tom Stammers (Jewish Country Houses project) about the Sassoon family as collectors. www.apollo-magazine.com/david-sassoo...

The V & A held a fascinating conference on their Jewish objects, artists, collectors and benefactors on Tuesday. David Feldman and Edmund de Waal were particularly memorable. It was recorded and should become accessible soon.

Maybe there is hope and light for Bevis Marks in prospect: www.jewishnews.co.uk/deputy-prime...

Now live: Small Research Grant Programme / European Association for Jewish Studies Apply for up to £2,500 for your research trip (for Full Members & Student Members) Deadline 30 November 2024 www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...

Very happy to be presenting today at the European Association for Jewish Studies conference, talking about Joshua Cohen's novel 'The Netanyahus' in relation to questions of race, postcoloniality, and the American campus.

We're excited to be hosting the 2025 @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social 2025 conference here in Southampton in May. This year's conference focuses on 'Archives, Heritage and Memory'. See the #CallForPapers below, and please share with your networks. Deadline: January 15 2025

CfP │ The British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies (BIAJS) invites proposals for its annual conference taking place in Glasgow, 7-9 July 2025 under the theme Border Crossing in Jewish Studies. Deadline for proposals: January 30, 2024 Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

27 Nov 5 pm UK time talk about post-Holocaust Jewish museums and heirless cultural property. Let me try that link again: cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/alumn...

Excellent piece by @yoelf.bsky.social, "A Future of Collaboration:Case Studies of Provenance Dilemmas Regarding Jewish Communal Property," in AAM's "The Next Horizon of Museum Practice:Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, & Reparation" www.aam-us.org/wp-content/u... #provenance #judaicalibrarianship

Morgen eröffnen wir unsere neue Ausstellung im Gewölbekeller "Goldener Apfel". Sie thematisiert die jüdische Emanzipation im 19. Jhdt anhand der Geschichte des Orts, seiner Bewohner und der Umgebung. Die Frankfurter Rundschau hat sich die multimediale Schau angesehen: www.fr.de/frankfurt/fr...

This op ed by @daverich1.bsky.social on how responses to the Amsterdam events reflect our polarisation (and why “pogrom” felt like the right word, despite its inaccuracy) is also good: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Buchvorstellung m: Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism. Marcel Stoetzler im Gespräch mit Christine Achinger, Matthew Bolton und Werner Bonefeld 10 December online www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/b...

Looking forward to holding an online launch event on 27 Nov (more details to follow but email [email protected] for Zoom link) for this book by Ph.D. graduate Dr Shir Kochavi: www.routledge.com/Museums-in-I...