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...

💶 apply for funding through European Association of Jewish Studies for conferences, workshops, etc! Deadline 26th March

📢 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 ⬇️

There's still time to propose a paper for 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies' #BIAJS2026 as the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13 February!

Join us next month for a talk with Sir Michael Moritz about his latest book, Ausländer. Michael will be in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein. This new work uncovers the history of Michael's close family members murdered by the Nazis. Tickets: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...

“Don't cry, it doesn't belong to us”: critical thoughts on commemoration as a means of inclusion: Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust memory in Israel Online talk with Becky Kook TOMORROW

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

Tova Benjamin will join us online on 11 February to discuss the place of ‘ethnicity’ in new forms of late 19th century popular violence, and developing shared understandings of Roma and Jewish histories of marginalization in the East European borderlands. Book here: bit.ly/3NOQv8o

Please join us for a talk with Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social for the Annual Karten Lecture 🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 6:00 pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & Online 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-actors-and-the-making-of-jewish-internationalism-tickets-1980464745366?aff=bluesky

There's still time to propose a paper for 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies' #BIAJS2026 as the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13 February!

Anyone researching Solomon Hart, first jew to be admitted to Royal Academy? @lulgalleries.bsky.social is keen to make our collection more accessible and would love to hear from you. @biajs.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Deadline is 6pm today!!

Jewish material can present unique challenges to those working with it. This blog runs through some top tips for archivists and others working with Jewish material, including reading Hebrew and caring for sacred texts. Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/an-intr... #Blog #Archives

Tomorrow evening! Especially for early-career scholars in Jewish studies…

Our Jews, Judaism and Mental Health series is free and open to the public. The second session is on 20 January from 1-20m GMT on Zoom www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

BISA’s David Feldman on antisemitism in Britain and what can be done www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

#OnThisDay in 1864 Israel Zangwill was born. A British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, his work earned him the nickname the “Dickens of the Ghetto”. Find out more about his life and work in our blog buff.ly/ByNZFQU @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

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)

Deadline is 15 Feb for abstracts for the next NGG of JHSE conference!

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

Join us online on 11 February to hear Tova Benjamin discuss “When is Violence ‘Ethnic’? On Jews as Victims and Perpetrators”. Book here: bit.ly/3NOQv8o

🏆 The 2026 BIAJS Book Prize competition is now open! We invite submissions focused on topics relating to the ancient and medieval periods for a prize of £1,000 to be announced at our July conference See eligibility details and how to submit here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/26/c...

Come learn Edwardian ballroom dances from a 1909 Jewish dance card in the Gaster Papers! With dance instructor Susan de Guardiola (USA), Subject Librarian @vrfreedman.bsky.social and myself (talking about Jewish balls). @uclhjs.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

Get your hands on some really great books in British & Irish Jewish studies, including Gavin Schaffer's 'An unorthodox history', Tony Kushner's 'The Jewish pedlar', a study of Jewish refugee nurses by Jane Brooks, & 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social

Two fantastic events coming up from Jargon: Holocaust Memorial Day with the great @ankahajkova.bsky.social, author of People Without History Are Dust, at the brilliant @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, and legend David Rosenberg doing a From Yiddish to Bangla Street Life walk www.jargon.org.uk/events

!!! 10 days left for submitting proposals !!! #BIAJS2026

"Litvinoff’s novels speak to the long history of Jewish radicalism in Britain, one in which commitment and ambivalence thrived in equal measure." M. Syd Rosen explores in our latest article on History Workshop.

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...

The Centre for Jewish Studies at @universityofleeds.bsky.social is honoured to welcome Dr. Amy Williams as this year's Holocaust Memorial Day speaker. She will talk about 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 years On' ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Tickets are on sale for Jewish Book Week 2026! And this year, for our 75th anniversary, we’re going big... Expect +160 speakers and events at Kings Place, online, and pop-up events across London this 28 Feb - 8 March. Explore the programme: shorturl.at/6oU2f 🎉 📚 @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social

Please join us for this Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture with @annakoch.bsky.social to hear more about the return journeys of Italian Jews who survived the camps in Eastern Europe and travelled across countries devastated by war. 🗓️ 27 January, 1.30pm 📍 Online www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Bryan Cheyette asks: what dialogue after Gaza? Is the conflict a tragedy requiring discussion, or a settler-colonial crime where dialogue normalizes the criminal? Listen to him discuss this and read the full commentary here: doi.org/10.1080/0031...

Tate hold the world's largest archive of British art, including pieces, documents, photographs, and more recording Jewish participation, inspiration and influence in the cultural life of Britain. Find out more about the archive and how to visit here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/tat...

🗺️ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30 JANUARY 6 pm Inviting papers reflecting on SPACE and PLACE such as... Maps, rituals, cosmology, exile, homelands, transnationalism, urbanism, segregation, gender, commemoration, ethnography, archaeology, leisure, culture, digital, mainstream, marginalised, imagined

Deadline 12th January for two exciting jobs at Wiener — below freelance opportunity and a fixed term Engagement and Community Outreach Officer. See below…

This treasure is a portrait of Abigail Behrens held by @manhighgirls.bsky.social, which was founded in January 1874. Abigail is traditionally named as one of the school's founders. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ab... #WomensEducation #JewishHistory #Archives

📣 Forthcoming Book Talk! 📍25 Feb, 6:30pm In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how works by Soviet Jewish writers, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence

Dear Friends, We’re delighted to share our latest Snapshot of German-Jewish History and Culture: Life and Death (Mask) of Gershom Scholem which is now available to read on our website. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

January is here and that can only mean one thing … the start of our 2026 webinar series 🥳 Kicking the series off we’ll be joined by Immy Tozer, who’ll be discussing the Historic Jewish Hampshire project 📍 Zoom 🗓️ 14th January ⏰ 7pm hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/histo... Please join us!

Welcome in the new year with new JBW speakers! We're thrilled to have Claudia Roden, Jay Rayner, Zoe Strimpel and Thomas Harding join us for our milestone 75th edition. With tickets on sale from 8 Jan, sign up to our newsletter to not miss any updates: shorturl.at/P1aWD

This will be a terrific and courageous talk: Tova Benjamin on Jews in the Russian imperial south who attacked a Roma migrating caravan bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/when-i...

Jewish student leaders reject fear narrative and urge teens to choose universities for courses, not antisemitism

Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...

Hanukkah Sameach! We're travelling to Scotland for Hanukkah nights six and seven 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 🕯 Our friends at The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre have sent us this programme for a Chanukah service at Garnethill Synagogue, where the centre is now housed...

📣 Freelance opportunity! We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive. Find out more and apply🔗

📢 Work with us! We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences. ➡ £32,000p/a ➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026 Apply 🔗 buff.ly/UCxtOIY

Yiddish language and life is celebrated in a new digital resource celebrating the life & work of A.N.Stencl & Yiddish literary journal Loshn un lebn @leverhulme.ac.uk supported project led by Rachel Lichtenstein. @biajs.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social a.n.stencl.mmu.ac.uk?_gl=1%2A10aa....

Calling all new generation scholars!

🎉 Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry turns 40 in 2026. To celebrate, the editors have curated a selection of journal articles free to read for the next year, highlighting four decades of leading scholarship on Polish–Jewish history & culture ⬇️ @uclhjs.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

Sign up for what will be an excellent conference with lots of papers on Medieval Jewish life with a keynote by Miri Rubin! Organised by @medievaljews.bsky.social Natasha Jenman and Naomi Reiter @qmul.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social