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 !

Come and work with us @ioe.bsky.social - the World's Number 1 Education Faculty in the QSS world education rankings for the 13th year in a row this year - in our world leading Centre for Holocaust Education? @uclholocaust.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #historyeducation

Emailing today with a past president (long ago) and loyal member of BIAJS in modern Jewish film history, I am struck by how special our association is and how important cross-disciplinary ties are for a thriving Jewish studies in the UK. BIAJS conferences make such great memories.

In our latest @uk.theconversation.com article, our Professor Tony Kushner writes about the Golders Green ambulance attack, and how the London suburb became a home for Jews👇 theconversation.com/golders-gree... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

May 6 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm @ Wiener, Richard Harper in conversation with Professor Mark Donnelly

Challenging Conversations is a new video series from Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, presented by the team and featuring subject specialists. Watch the first episode, Endangered Jewish Community Archives, here: rothschildfoundation.eu/challenging-... #ChallengingConversations #JewishHeritage

Deadlines for intention to submit is THIS FRIDAY 27th March !

🎬 Join our Director, James Jordan, on 27 March for a symposium on filmmaker Robert Vas. The event will be followed by a screening of Nine Days in ’26 (1974). More details and registration below 🎟️ www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... 🎟️ www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

New afternoon Book Talk! Join Richard Harper as he discusses his new book, Displacement: Zweig, Roth and Benjamin. This new work explores the meaning and feeling of those being persecuted, exiled and displaced through the eyes of three eminent Jewish writers. Sign up now:

Our visiting fellows @charlieknight.bsky.social and @monjast96.bsky.social are organising a conference and keynote on ego-documents and life writing on 14 April at the University of Southampton. Register here for in person attendance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossing-b...

Have you caught up on our latest Archivist in the Spotlight blog yet? Join Cassy Sacher, Senior Librarian @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social on the journey of creating their new reading room. Read it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #ICYMI #Archives #JewishCulture #Libraries #Blog

This evening!

A new edited volume, Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections, has recently been published, featuring a chapter by LBI London Director Joseph Cronin. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/03... #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #LBILondon

Exciting call for papers from @anoushka-ar.bsky.social !

Call for Papers: “Between Revolution and Reaction – German-Speaking Jews and the Ideas, Politics, and Cultures of the Right” Submission guidelines: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/03... #Conference #CallForPapers #LeoBaeckInstituteLondon #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory

Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.

In this 2021 blog, Heritage Consultant Rachel Howse Binnington explains how to sort through family papers you may have found in a clear-out, how best to take care of them and where to find help. Read it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/what-to... #FamilyArchives #SpringCleaning #Archives

We are pleased to announce a new PhD and a Cup of Tea seminar series, ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’. This series will run in the calendar year 2026 alongside the academic lecture series of the same theme. Find out more:

Call for Applications | Great opportunity for early-career Holocaust researchers! Free seminar to strengthen your subject expertise, expand your network, engage with leading scholars. By IHRA, @yadvashem.bsky.social, @uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social and EHRIs MOOC. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-network...

Tomorrow!

On Wednesday…

What a stunning spring day for a walking tour of Jewish Southampton with the one and only Tony Kushner (who might or might not be a distant relative of Craig David 🤪)!

This afternoon! 'This talk examines the discursive relationship between European prisoners, French camp officials, and colonized North African Muslims in Max Aub’s 1944 poetry collection Diario de Djelfa.' with Rebecca Glasberg @royalholloway.bsky.social

This is a friendly reminder that we still have a few spots available for those who wish to register for our upcoming lecture, 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐢 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 Registration links below👇

📣 It is with great excitement that we announce the appointment of Dr Barbara Warnock and Dr Christine Schmidt as Co-Directors of the Wiener Holocaust Library! Bringing a combined 23 years' experience to their new role, they take the helm at a crucial time.. Full announcement🔗

Very excited to see @samsamev.bsky.social’s book out with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social THE JEWISH MAGHREB North African Experiences in Greater Paris since 1981 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Everet... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @liminalwater.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

To celebrate #JewishBookWeek this year, we're offering up to 30% off all titles from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Use the code 27LITTMAN30 at checkout on our website before 19th March to receive your discount. Find out more: bit.ly/Littman-JBW 📖

Consider applying to the Conference Grant Programme of the European Association of Jewish Studies - details below. Deadline 26 March 2026

The Leo Baeck Institute London and the British-German Association are pleased to invite you to KINDERTRANSPORT IN BRITISH MEMORY AND CULTURE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Please join us online only on Thursday, 19 March 2026, 7.00 – 8.00 PM (GMT) Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp...

Our very own BIAJS Director @bengidley.bsky.social is giving the Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture at @lahri.bsky.social Centre for Jewish Studies on 24th March 5.30pm on 'Is antisemitism rising in the UK?' Sign up forms.office.com/pages/respon... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Our Spring 2026 newsletter is now available! Inside: new publications, EHRI-UK updates, an interview with @samsamev.bsky.social, student and alumni highlights, public engagement activity, and upcoming events. Explore the full edition at sway.cloud.microsoft/XByIbTAWL14L...

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)

Missed Tony Kushner's interview for Hannah's Bookshelf on North Manchester FM 106.6? 🎧 You can catch again here: www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...

Some new words from me on collaging the Wandering Jew after taking the exhibition and workshops to the 'Arts and Humanities Day' @unisouthampton.bsky.social: thewanderingjewexhibition.co.uk/reflections/...

Here's my new blog post about Jewish dance cards and a recent UCL bicentennial event where we learned Edwardian ballroom dances from a Jewish dance card in @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social to the same tunes that were performed in 1909. #UCL200 In partnership with @uclhjs.bsky.social and the UCL IJS.

Deadline end of 29th May to submit for our Book Prize!!

Join us on 2 March at Birkbeck to hear Michael Berkowitz on the elusive story of Jewish Hollywood’s role in World War II. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/hollyw...

Looking forward to this great exhibition curated by our PhD candidate and outreach fellow Maddie Walch launching at God's House Tower in Southampton on Thursday 5th March! More details and sign up for the launch event here: 🔗 godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/memo...

The Leo Baeck Institute London and the British-German Association are pleased to invite you to KINDERTRANSPORT IN BRITISH MEMORY AND CULTURE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Thursday, 19 March 2026, 7.00 – 8.00 PM (GMT) Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp...

Book launch of “Happiness” Tues 10 March, 7-8.30pm Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

Coming up in a couple of weeks!

📣New blog post: The ‘Deaf Kindertransport’: Emerging Research on Dr Felix Reich @charlieknight.bsky.social explores how attention to disability and migration reveals the extreme pressures refugees faced and the strategies they developed to navigate them. Read here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-cen...

Congratulations and good luck to our friends @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social who are opening their new reading room this week. We'll have more about it in our next Archivist in the Spotlight but in the meantime, find out about their library collection here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/leo...

Deadline to apply is this Friday!

From @samsamev.bsky.social @anoushka-ar.bsky.social @eliaou-balouka.bsky.social & more — get up to Manchester to have a look!!

Later this month in Leeds, @rachelshabi.bsky.social discussing decoloniality and Jewish identity

Learn about this new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book at Sasha Senderovich's 26 Feb UCL Institute for Jewish Studies talk 'In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union'. @uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...