Scouts from Sanok, Poland, recently took part in powerful living history workshops led by our own Janek Gryta, reconstructing the story of a WWII concentration camp — and are now preparing an exhibition to share what they found. For more on this initiative: 🔗 sanok.zhp.pl/warsztaty-historia-zywa/

We are excited to be taking part in this year's Refugee Festival Scotland 💛 Join our free Garnethill Refugee Trail and learn about the refugees who escaped Nazi Europe and made their home in Scotland. Read more and book now👇 www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk/events/event... #RefugeeFestScot

Don't miss our latest Academic Book Event, hosted with the @hgrporg.bsky.social ➡️ HGRP Book Talk – Homecoming and Survival: Jewish Life Stories and Return in Greece 📅 28 May, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library Sign up for your free ticket now:

#Chancen | Call for Applications: Grant for a Debut Book in Jewish Studies (2026-2027) @‌Schocken Institute for Jewish Research of the JTS | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #jewishstudies #jtwitter Deadline for applications: June 30, 2026

The AJS Women's Caucus announces a grant of $1,000 to support scholarly publication in the area of Jewish, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Application deadline: June 22. @biajs.bsky.social @jewishstudies.bsky.social www.associationforjewishstudies.org/womens-caucu...

Two upcoming events from Princes Road Synagogue - Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation for Jewish Culture Month! ♟️Chess day - 25th May: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/liv... 🎻 Concert with David Rome, Ian Tracey and Andrew Winter - 7th June: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/liv...

LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl has published an article exploring the work of a 1920s Neo-Orthodox woman. Raised in Frankfurt’s Neo-Orthodox community, Gella Sänger became the ‘first woman to have authored and published a handbook on Jewish law’. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social in @newyorker.com on antisemitism in Britain today and why the government's response falls short www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

From service records to playlists to memory maps, many archives are bringing their collections to life through using digital spaces in different ways. Read about our favourite digital resources and discover more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/digital... #Archives #DigitalArchives

It's almost time for the 6th Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture! Join us at Gresham College for a lecture by Professor Mary Fulbrook: Society and Survival During the Holocaust 📅 May 18, 6 - 8pm 📍 Gresham College, London Sign up to attend in person or online:

Our 2026 conference continues this afternoon with a panel on Life-Writing, Biography, and Self-Fashioning!

Jewish history is closer than you think. 🗺️ Our PhD researcher Immy Tozer has created a digital map revealing Hampshire's hidden Jewish heritage — and the Daily Echo is talking about it. Check it out 👇https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/26082900.digital-map-project-reveals-hampshires-jewish-heritage/

🏆 BIAJS 2026 Student Essay Prize: Call for Submissions ⌛Deadline: 15 June ✒️ 2 x £400 prize for 1 outstanding undergraduate dissertation and 1 postgraduate essay by students at UK/Irish institutions on Jewish Studies, ancient through modern Info here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/13/a...

Calling all undergrads — deadline next Monday!

Last couple of days to see this show!

Our next event is the annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture. Join @yairwallach.bsky.social (@soasuni.bsky.social) for a talk on 'Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East: Rethinking the stories we know'. 📍 Hybrid 📅 Tues 5 May, 6pm (BST) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-...

The third Challenging Conversations video is now available to watch. Dr Ruchama Johnston-Bloom talks to Professor Irene Zwiep and Professor Marçin Wodziński about the current state of academic Jewish studies. Watch the full video here: rothschildfoundation.eu/challenging-... #JewishStudies

In honor of Monika Richarz, funding available to research Early Modern Jewry. Applications (in German or English) due April 30. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Applications for the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2026 are now open! 🎉 Submit yours before midnight on June 7, 2026 and join us as a fellow! #AcademicFellowship #OpenCall

This Tuesday!

A drawing, held at @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social, is more personal though. It's on a note to his fourth wife, Inge, and depicts the couple sitting in a garden in the base of a lamp. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/vi...

Now Streaming: Our roundtable on Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture. Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp... #Kindertransport #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #JewishHistory #AcademicResearch #LBILondon

Great to have @realbaddiel.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum at this year’s @parkesinstitute.bsky.social Lecture. David discussed his bestselling memoir My Family, sharing reflections on grief, fame, Jewishness and cats. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

Interesting CFP from Eastern European Holocaust Studies for a special issue on Jewish religious life during the Holocaust. Abstracts due June 30, articles due Dec. 1. @biajs.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/publication/...

Lovely to see British Yiddishists going across the pond!

the video of our webinar with 3 brilliant scholars @terezahendl.bsky.social, Yudit Namer & @annaziel.bsky.social — on antisemitism, inter-imperiality & anti-Slavic racism in Germany & beyond, and what a non-carceral anti-antisemitism & real anti-fascism would be like leftrenewal.org/videos-en/he...

She was also a leading expert on Sabbateanism, a messianic movement of the mid 17th c and a major spiritual upheaval in Jewish diasporic history... Ada was particularly interested in the role of women in this antinomian movement. @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social @uclartssciences.bsky.social

Our @samsamev.bsky.social and Laura Harris (as well as Pierre Sintes’ photography) feature in the new issue of @unisouthampton.bsky.social’s re:action magazine issuu.com/university_o... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @telemme.bsky.social

A very exciting day coming up at the Barbican!

Join us on our public tours to explore Scotland's rich Jewish history and step inside the beautiful Victorian Garnethill Synagogue. Tuesdays at 10.30am Thursdays at 2.00pm ✨Plus an additional tour on Sunday 26th April Book your place via the link in our bio!

The second Challenging Conversations video is now available to watch. This discussion focuses on Jewish communal life and what established community organisations and grassroots movements can learn from each other. Watch it here: rothschildfoundation.eu/challenging-... #JewishCommunity

Join us this week for LBI London Film Club as we screen Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel, a British documentary presented by David Baddiel and featuring the voice of Stephen Fry. Watch the film FREE online this week only: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/film-club-he...

We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year. This new academic lecture series will provide a forum for established and early career researchers to present on groundbreaking new research. Find out more:

Applications close today!

Tomorrow! This is going to a blast for sure — David Baddiel in conversation with Devorah Baum

Reminder: our NGG conference is only 3 weeks away, so make sure to register if you haven’t already!

This box, on display in Imperial War Museum London‘s Holocaust Galleries, contained part of the Ringelblum Archive - documents and testimonies from those living in the Warsaw ghetto collected at the time. Read more about it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/on... #JewishHistory

Calling all prospective MA students! 'The Irene Silver Memorial Scholarship: The Experiences of Jewish Women in Wales' is accepting applications until 14th July Start Date: 28th September @bangoruniversity.bsky.social [email protected] for questions & submission! More details below…

Tomorrow evening!

Applications are now open for the International Summer Institute on Modern Balkan & Mediterranean Jewries, taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 22–26 June 2026. Find out more: shorturl.at/lbAyv

Last week we walked through the Gorbals, tracing the footsteps of Glasgow’s Jewish community. Using images from our Immigration – Making a Life in the Gorbals learning kit, we explored how these streets once looked and the lives that shaped them. Discover more on our website! 🔗 in bio

🎉 Registration for the NGG Conference, "Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation," is now open! Join us on Monday 11 May at UCL for a day of research, discussion, and networking! Attendance is free, and lunch is included. Register here: forms.gle/qdGynU67WkX5...

Grief. Fame. Jewishness. Cats. Erotic poetry. Join @realbaddiel.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum as he discusses his bestselling memoir 'My Family' at this year’s Parkes Lecture. 📅 21 April, 6pm 📍 Avenue Campus & online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-badd...

Last month, Parkes PGR and Outreach Fellow @maddiewalch.bsky.social launched the exhibition 'Memories of Fear': The Artwork of Gerda Cohen at God's House Tower in Southampton. Read more about the exhibition and Maddie’s reflections on curating it here: 🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...

Tomorrow at @parkesinstitute.bsky.social !

We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year. This new academic lecture series will provide a forum for established and early career researchers to present on groundbreaking new research. Find out more:

This sketch by Rembrandt, held by Jewish Museum London, is of Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel. Read about his 1655 petition to Oliver Cromwell asking to readmit Jews to Britain and allow them to worship: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/me...

Congratulations to Professor Tony Kushner who has been awarded one of the highest international honours in the field of Holocaust studies, the 2026 Distinguished Achievement Award in Holocaust Studies from @hefnu.bsky.social 👏 Read more👉 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Wonderful to see Ada Rapoport-Albert honoured as one of the ‘UCL at 200' faces! www.ucl.ac.uk/about/search...

We can't wait to see this from BIAJS member @sgollance.bsky.social !