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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Junior Year Abroad
HJS values its reputation as one of the most JYA (Junior Year Abroad) friendly departments at UCL. In part this is because of the large number of courses available in any given year. With offerings in language and literature, history, politics, religious and gender studies, it is no surprise that many students, even those who are hosted in another department, take a class with us.
HJS has many one-term classes, but we are always willing to make the special arrangement necessary to enable students to take a year-long course for just a semester. We take good care of the students who are registered in HJS, but all students are welcome to participate in the all the events that feature in the busy social life of the department.
At the top of the list is our Hanukkah Party and our famous/notorious Purimspil, performed entirely in Yiddish. Almost all HJS classes are small to medium-size, although when there is demand--as for our popular offerings in the Arab-Israeli Conflict or Comparative Peace Processes in Ireland and the Middle East—we just find a bigger room! Our strongest appeal is the chance for JYA students to work in an intimate setting with leading scholars in many of the diverse areas of the field of Jewish Studies.
We are pleased that many JYA students come to us because we have been recommended by classmates who have returned to their home campus. UCL also provides help and assistance for JYA students through its International Office.
