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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Graduate
The Master of Arts (MA) degree in the department is a self-standing degree, but may also serve as preparation for the research degrees of MPhil and PhD. The MA is appropriate either for students with a broad undergraduate background in this area who wish to focus their knowledge more closely, or for students with a different undergraduate experience who wish to make progress in the areas of Hebrew, Yiddish, Semitic or Jewish Studies.
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies runs four MA programmes, which are pathways of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities MA in Language, Culture and History. The four pathways are:
- MA in Hebrew & Jewish Studies
- MA in Holocaust Studies
- MA in Modern Israeli Studies
- MA in Jewish History
The MA programme, which begins in September, is one calendar year in length, or two years if taken part-time. Although it contains an element of research work, the MA is primarily a taught degree, which means that students attend courses which they select from amongst all the courses taught in the department in any given year. Candidates also write a dissertation, based on an independent research project. They are examined on all this work at the end of the academic year.
The majority of classes in the department are open to advanced undergraduates as well as graduates. In such classes, known as "non-dedicated-classes", graduates are required to submit a piece of written work, to be marked, returned and discussed with the student.
Under exceptional circumstances, members of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies can direct the research projects (towards either the MPhil or PhD degrees) of students who are not resident in the United Kingdom.
