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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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Undergraduate Syllabi

1001 Survey, 1st Millennium BCE
1002 Survey, 1st Millennium CE
1003 Survey, 1000-1800 CE
1004 Survey, 1800- present
1005 Introduction to Classical Hebrew
1006
Modern Hebrew for Beginners
1007 Religion, State, and Society in Modern European History
1008
Introduction to Judeo-Spanish and its Literature
7514
Yiddish Memoirs
7213
Introduction to Rabbinic Hebrew
7302
Modern Hebrew Lower Intermediate
7303
Modern Hebrew Higher Intermediate
7304
Advanced Modern Hebrew
7755
Representations of Trauma - Holocaust Writing
7414
Jewish Literary Aramaic
7416
Introduction to Syriac
7504
Elementary Yiddish
7515
Yiddish Folk Culture
7516
Upper Intermediate Yiddish
7725
Jews in English-Speaking Lands
7405
Ancient Jewish Magic
7731
Culture of Sephardic Jewry
7817 The Medieval Quest for Understanding: High Culture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
7314 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Non-Fiction
7504 Elementary Yiddish
7812 Hasidism and Modernity
7766
Israel and the Occupied Territories
7416
Introduction to Syriac
7752 Metropolitan Life: Jews and the City
7409
Introduction to Babylonian Talmud
7818
The Jewish Mystical Tradition
7740
History of the Jews in Poland
7317
Family Politics in Israeli Literature
7761A
Anglo-Israeli Relations, 1948-2006
7769
The Peace Process in Modern Israeli Politics
7401
Biblical Aramaic