HJS News
UCL Festival of the Arts May 7-17
Start:
May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End:
May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM
Location:
various venues, UCL Bloomsbury Campus More...
Europe and the Holocaust - Shifts in Public Debates in Poland, Germany and the UK
The panel investigates shifts in the role of the Holocaust in European
public debates in the recent past. Contrasting developments in Poland,
Germany, and Great Britain, we will identify common threads as well as
differences in perceiving, presenting, memorizing the mass murder of
European Jewries.
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Graduate Student Conference: Jewish Spirituality in Eastern Europe
The Yiddish Forverts has recently published a report from the Graduate Student Conference on ‘Jewish Spirituality in Eastern Europe – a Textual Perspective,’ held at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL on 6-7 June, 2012. The article, authored by conference participant Adi Mahalel (Columbia University), is available online on the website of the Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/node/4589 More...
New publication: The Russian-Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937
Over a period of three years, the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at
UCL has been cooperating in a research project devoted to 'Cultural Continuitiy
in the Diaspora: Paris and Berlin in 1917-1937', based at the Department of
European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, and in cooperation
with the Centre for European and International Studies at the University of
Portsmouth. The project had been funded by the Leverhulme Trust Academic
Collaboration-International Network scheme. Among the initiators of the project
had been the late John D. Klier. More...
International Graduate Student Conference 2012
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL is pleased to announce plans for an International Graduate Student Conference, devoted to explorations of multiple aspects of Jewish spirituality in Eastern Europe, to be held on 5th and 6th of June 2012 in London. The conference organizers invite graduate students and recent PhD holders to submit their proposals. We welcome presentations addressing any aspect of the religious history and religious culture of Eastern European Jewry, with an emphasis on their textual products. We are particularly interested in proposals which open up new perspectives and pose new questions regarding conceptual frameworks and traditional definitions used to describe Eastern Europe in the field of Jewish Studies. Topics may include:
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The Jewish Press of Czernovitz
This project, in the amount of £380,007 over a period of five years, is entitled "Towards a New Cultural History of Czernovitz: The Jewish Press, 1918-1940". It is a collaboration between Susan Marten Finnes, a German and Yiddish specialist from Queens University, Belfast, and Ada Rapoport-Albert of UCL, combining the expertise and resources of their two respective departments. The project focuses on a period, between the two World Wars, in which Czernovitz generated intense, largely Jewish, cultural activity in German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and to some extent also Romaninan (Nowadays in the Ukraine, at the start of the project"s period Czernovitz had just become part of the Bukovina province of Romania, having previously belonged to the Habsburg Empire). The project will fund two new PhD dissertations and a full time Research Fellow, to collect hitherto unexplored archival holdings of the Jewish community in Czernovitz, and to study the Jewish press published at the time in all four languages. It proposes to demonstrate that far from the prevailing, somewhat idealised and romanticised picture of harmonious co-existence between diverse linguistic, religious and ethnic groups in inter-War Czernovitz, the community was in fact divided by heated ideological and religious conflicts, and these contributed in no small measure to its remarkable cultural dynamism and creativity.
