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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
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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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Research Associates

              Name
Fields of interest
Telephone
Internal
Email address
François de Blois

      uclhfcd [at] ucl.ac.uk
Justine Isserles

Mediaeval, Jewish calendars, Franco-German Jewry, Manuscript Codicology
    j.isserles [at] ucl.ac.uk
Gwen Jones

20th century Hungarian history and literature; Antisemitism
    gwenyth.jones [at] ucl.ac.uk
Philipp Nothaft

Calendars and systems of dating; history of science; history of historiography; Christian-Jewish relations in the Middle Ages 020 7679 3591 33591 c.nothaft [at] ucl.ac.uk
Israel Sandman
Middle Ages; Jewish Thought; Hebrew Manuscripts; Comparative Religions 020 7679 3591 33591 i.sandman [at] ucl.ac.uk
Ulrike Steinert
Ancient Near Eastern Languages and History, History of Medicine, History of Women, Body and Gender Concepts     u.steinert [at] ucl.ac.uk
Ilana Wartenberg
The Jewish Calendar, Ancient and medieval astronomy, Medieval Hebrew and Arabic mathematics, Scientific terminology 020 7679 3591 33591 i.wartenberg [at] ucl.ac.uk