LBI Fellows Honoured with International Award for Innovative Graphic History www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

Our sixth Archivist in the Spotlight is here 🎉 Hear from Keira Dobbin at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Special Collections & Archives on telling the story of Jewish history across Northern Ireland and Ireland. Read it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #Archives #JewishHistory

This week PhD candidate Sophie Bellamy spoke to BBC Look North for a story about Jewish businesses in the North East – Drawing on her doctoral research, she emphasised how Jewish history in our region goes beyond just economics and is linked to our wider social and cultural heritage 👏👏👏

⚠️ 10 days until the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies conference, 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies', hosted at Birkbeck, London, 13-15 July! Check out our packed programme full of papers, roundtables, film screenings & guided walks, and register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

The BIAJS conference at Birkbeck is shaping up well. Check out the current version of the programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online

In case you missed @ankahajkova.bsky.social's lecture last night, the recording is now available here: youtu.be/kIF5p82WTPk

The Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to announce that Ido Ben Harush has been awarded the 2027 LBI Year Book Essay Prize for German-Jewish Studies for his essay, “Idolatry and Textolatry: Media Crisis from Mendelssohn to Flusser”. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

The Bomberg Talmud was printed in Venice around 1526-1548 and now in the collections at Lambeth Palace Library. The Babylonian Talmud is a central text of rabbinic Judaism, encompassing Jewish law, history and folklore. Find out more about it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/bo...

A few weeks ago, we published our Glossary as a starting point for archivists, librarians and researchers working with Jewish material. Find it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/glossary/ 📷 The Great Synagogue London, 1941 • Imperial War Museum #Archives #JewishCulture #JewishHistory #ICYMI

Delighted to share our full, finalised programme for the BIAJS 2026 Conference 'Space and place in Jewish Studies'! 13 - 15 July @ Birkbeck, London: register below >>> bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2024-confere...

Excited to have another article published before the end of my PhD! This time in a new interdisciplinary journal from @academic.oup.com. It’s titled “Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear” and is another little insight into my PhD thesis. doi.org/10.1093/9780...

The latest volume in the STDJ series, *(Con)textual Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Orion Symposium, February 28–March 3, 2022, Published in Honor of Esther G. Chazon*, is now out. Congrats to the editors and contributors! brill.com/display/titl...

Join Samuel Clowes Huneke next month for a conversation about his new book I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany. This book brings to life the experiences of queer women in fascist Germany, showing how love, resistance, and collective action survived under Nazi rule

Discover the remarkable story behind our next LBI Film Club screening. In this interview, Sheila Hayman, director and writer of Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn, talks about Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Watch and listen here: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-...

In our latest Snapshot, LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl explores a rare and remarkable object in our pamphlet collection: the 1938/39 calendar of the Jüdische Frauenbund, the Jewish Women's Association in Germany. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

Join us online to hear Faith Hillis (University of Chicago) on 'Forged in plain sight: a biography of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' on 7 July. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/forged...

A great opportunity again this year, do share with your networks, institutions, doctoral & postdoctoral students to help build UK Jewish Studies!

Join us on 30 June at Birkbeck to hear Dr @ankahajkova.bsky.social discuss 'People without history are dust: queer desire and the Holocaust' at Birkbeck. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/people...

Our next Archivist in the Spotlight blog is coming soon so catch up at the website. Here's the one by Alison Scott, Archivist at the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, on her first year in the job: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #ICYMI #Archives #JewishHistory

Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the issue 📅 16 July, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library, London Free tickets:

Our friends at the Jewish Museum London recently opened Two Rooms, a new interim project space at JW3 in North London for the summer. Find out more here: jewishmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/two...

We heard many fascinating papers at last weeks workshop titled 'Intersecting Methodologies', including from Janika Raisch who spoke about her PhD project the recent publication 'Older Jews and the Holocaust' edited by Christine Schmidt @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, Elizabeth Anthony, and Joanna Sliwa.

This week's #NewBooks: Yiddish, klezmer music, rabbinic literature, Israel / Palestine, and more library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Deadline is also 22nd June!

We are pleased to share the latest instalment in our Meet the Fellows series, featuring Leo Baeck Fellow Alisha Meininghaus (2019–20 cohort). www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Join us on 16 July for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including Helen Finch, Rosie Ramsden, Matt Smith, and William Jones. Free tickets:

Deadline extended until 22nd June! Please send in your students' work

On Wednesday!

Are you visiting the Lake District this month? Our acclaimed travelling exhibition, Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust, is currently on display at Windermere Library ahead of a forthcoming event co-hosted with the Lake District Holocaust Project...

Congratulations to the Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center, including our very own Claire Le Foll as historical advisor, on the launch of Shtetl, a new cultural strategy board game inspired by Jewish small towns in Eastern Europe. 🔗 Pre-order: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sht...

New special issue of Jewish Historical Studies (@uclpressjournals.bsky.social) on Jews and the British Empire, guest edited by Elizabeth E. Imber. @uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social journals.uclpress.co.uk/jhs/issue/64...

Deadline 11.59pm tonight!! Get your prize submissions in

Tomorrow evening!

Today is the start of Refugee Week and many of the treasures in our network tell refugee stories, children and adults forced to flee their homes in the hope of a better life somewhere else. Here are just some of them: #RefugeeWeek #JewishHistory

Call for Consultant for @lbilondon.bsky.social Library: Scoping Grant To support a professional assessment of the collection in its new Senate House home and help shape a long-term management strategy. Email [email protected]! More info here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/15/c...

In case you missed it, you can now watch Mareike Riedel on 'Antisemitism as oppression of Jews as Jews' here: youtu.be/cRXgL2UII4g

Join us next week for the Garnethill Refugee Trail, part of Refugee Festival Scotland 2026 Discover some of the places in Garnethill which are connected with Jewish refugees. 📍16 June 2pm-3.30pm 🎟️Free - Booking Required 👇 www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk/events/event... #RefugeeFestScot

Book Launch: The Mosse-Women: German-Jewish Life Stories by Elisabeth Wagner 🗓 15 June 2026 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM BST 💻 Zoom only | Free to attend | Held in English Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/book-...

A few weeks ago, we launched a new resource listing online digital projects that bring Jewish archive material to life and tell stories of collections from music to soldiers. Find the list here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/resources/on... #ICYMI #Archives

🏆 BIAJS PhD Studentship Call! 📜 To support the society and undertake an independent project promoting Jewish studies in the UK and Ireland £1,500 p/a for the duration of the PhD 📅 Deadline 22nd June, interviews during BIAJS 13-15 July or online bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/09/b...

We are proud to mark the UK’s first nationwide Jewish Culture Month (16 May – 15 June 2026). www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Today is the final day to apply to join us as a visiting fellow this autumn. Don't miss out! Registration link and more information are available here: www.digitalmemorylab.com/visiting-res...

Upcoming deadline - 15th June for our student essay prize!

Submit proposals this week for what is bound to be a fascinating special issue in Patterns of Prejudice on the Wandering Jew!

This week, we honour Professor Joachim Schlör with an international conference on Jewish History and Culture Beyond Borders, taking place 11–12 June 2026 in Graz. www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

International Archives Week from the International Council on Archives (ICA) starts today. The theme this year is Archives For Justice and here are just some of the treasures from our network that reflect archives supporting justice and rights... #IAW2026 #ArchivesForJustice #Archives

📢Want to get more involved with the NGG? Join the committee! Help shape our next conference, organise events, and be part of the team. Drop us a message or email to express your interest or find out more!

The 8,000 slave labourers who passed through Alderney during the course of the war were witnesses to much of what was happening on the island while it was in the hands of German forces. Find out more about their experiences at an evening talk by Prof Gilly Carr

2026 marks 50 years since JCORE was founded and Parkes alumnus @josephfinlay.bsky.social has written the book to mark it. Join him and Lord Simon Woolley, Dawn Butler MP, Dr Edie Friedman, Rabbi David Mason at @jw3london.bsky.social on 17 June. Book here: hiasjcore.org/events/celeb...