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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Staff Profiles
Click on the individual name to find further information about the member of staff, such as Publications, Research Areas etc.
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Name |
Fields of interest |
Phone |
Internal Phone |
Email address |
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Ben Zion Margulies Lecturer in Yiddish |
Yiddish language, literature, culture | 020 7679 3586 | 33586 |
h.beer [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Professor of Modern Jewish History |
German Jewry, English-speaking Jewry, Holocaust, Jews in science and technology | 020 7679 2814 | 32814 |
m.berkowitz [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Jewish Chronicle Professor of Jewish Studies |
020 7679 3588 | 33588 |
m.geller [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Sidney and Elizabeth Corob Reader in Modern Jewish History |
Modern Jewish History, Polish Jewish History, Eastern Europe | 020 7679 3720 | 33720 |
f.guesnet [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow |
Hebrew and Yiddish Language and Linguistics | 020 7679 3171 | 33171 |
l.kahn [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Catherine Lewis Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies |
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies |
020 7679 3028 | 33028 |
n.f.lochery [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Hasidism, Kabbalah, Messianism, Gender Issues in Judaism |
020 7679 3591 |
33591 |
r.rapaport-albert [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature |
Modern Hebrew literature, Women’s writing, Gender studies | 020 7679 4439 | 34439 |
t.ratner [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic |
Aramaic Language and Literature, Hebrew Bible (esp. Former Prophets), Classical Rabbinic Literature, textual transmission | 020 7679 3590 | 33590 | willem.smelik [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Professor of Rabbinic Judaism and Head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Jewish history in Antiquity, Calendars and time, Rabbinic literature | 020 7679 0483 | 30483 | sacha.stern [at] ucl.ac.uk |
