IJS Events
- A Language in Search of Its Author: The Early Modern Beginnings of Modern Hebrew
- BOOK LAUNCH: Sport and British Jewry, 1890-1970
- Simon Wiesenthal Memorial Lecture - Perpetrators, Collaborators, Resisters, Bystanders: The Shoah in Greater Bulgaria, 1943
- We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
- Identity through Difference: Rabbinic Judaism and Christian Narrative
- Fighting a Specter in Times of War: Soviet Jewry and the Heroization of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Summer Conference 2013
- Summer Lecture
- Marc Michael Epstein Lecture
- Kenneth Sacks Lecture
- Institute of Jewish Studies Summer Concert
- An Extraordinary Archive: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto
- Jewish Identity and Israeli Foreign Policy
- Sephardim, Holocaust and Diasporic Memory: the Jews from the Island of Rhodes
- Rescue during the Holocaust: Sources and Causes
- David to Nehemiah: new fragments from Kenyon’s Jerusalem
- Book Launch: Ruta's Closet
- The Amazing Adventures of a Hebrew Manuscript from Medieval England
- My Father the Good Nazi: Reflections on an Encounter
- First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-1946
- Ukrainians, Jews and Poles: The Ukrainian Triangle in Historical Perspective
- Bringing the Dark to Light – Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
- Blair, Labour and Palestine: Conflicting Views on Middle East Peace After 9/11
- Jews and the Making of the Modern Cultural Industry
- Vision 2020: Leading British Jewry into the Future
- Redcliffe Salaman, President of the Jewish Historical Society of England
- From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews and Israel
- The Postwar Quest for Justice: Jewish Honor Courts in Poland and in the Displaced Persons’ Camps
- What's Jewish About Jewish Folklore?
- Can Judaism restore the ‘Human’ to Human Rights?
- Christóbal Méndez alias Abraham Franco Silveyra: The Puzzling Saga of a 17th Century Converso
- Jewish Women Writers in Victorian England
- Defining Jewish Medicine
- The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews
- How Jesus celebrated Passover –Early Modern Views of the Last Supper
- "...And Thereafter: the impact of World War One on the Jews and their Europe"
- Empires, Nationalisms and the First World War
- Hunt for the Jews: the Case of Occupied Poland, 1942-1945
- The Man who never threw anything away: Moses Gaster and his World
- Jewish and Christian Tombstones from ancient Zoara/Zoora
- Royal Jews: Jewish Life in Berkshire from the Readmission Till Today
- The Jews in Congress Poland: At The Dynamic Centre of Political, Economic and Cultural Change
- What Exactly was the Goal of the Nazi anti-Jewish Enterprise?
- From Elephantine to Jerusalem and Back
- Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory: Law, Religion, Economics and Morality
- The Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale
- Do Jews Believe in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and his Posthumous Travels
- Jewish Women and Books in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Ephemeral Metropolis? The History of Jewish Warsaw
- Depicting Jewish Thought
- The European Jewish Experience of Migration: Early Modern and Modern Perspectives
- Archaeologists, Collectors, and Museums: Redressing the Ethical Divide in the face of Modern Conflict
- "In the footsteps of King Billy": The Origins of the Jewish Community in Dublin in the Context of Irish History
- The Rediscovery of Josephus and Modern Jewish Identity
- Zodiac Calendars and Angels in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Moses’ Jewish Problem
- The Biblical Ishmael as seen by Medieval and Modern Jews
- PIANO CONCERT
- Jewish Writing in Poland
- The Popes and the Jews in 16th Italy: a convoluted encounter
- Brothers-in-arms with Nazi Germans: Jews in Finland during World War II
- The future of the past: Reflecting on Jewish history under the signs of shadow and hope
- Jewish Languages
- Domesticating Techniques in the First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations
- The Epistle of the Number by Ibn al-Ahdab. The Transmission of Arabic mathematics to Hebrew circles in Medieval Sicily
- Theodor Herzl: From Jewish Politics to Geo-Politics
- The Zohar: Reception and Impact
- Wandering Jews in England’s Green and Pleasant Land
- A New Approach to Mapping Jewish History
- Persuasion or Coercion? Approaches to the Law in early Jewish and Christian thought
- Digitalising Hebrew Manuscripts
- “An Even More Unexpected Find” – the Synagogue of Dura-Europos and its Place in Local Society
- Naphtali Franks FRS (1715-1796) – Musician, Synagogue Warden and Communal Eminence
- Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism and the Left in Britain
- Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe
- The Book of Jonah: a Paraphonous Polemic
- Jacob Harris: an early Jewish (triple) Murderer in England
- Is there such a thing as Medicine in the Bible?
- Jewish Physicians from Galicia: Trailblazers and Rebels
- Women, Voice, and Music in British Synagogues
- Jews in Medieval England – What can we learn from a European comparison?
Highlights
Book your place for our next lecture:
Thursday May 25th
What can we learn from a European comparison?
For more events, see our Spring 2017 Public Lectures Programme.
BOOK LAUNCH: Sport and British Jewry, 1890-1970
Start: Feb 26, 2013 07:00 PM
Location: G22, Pearson Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
David Dee's main research interest is the historical
relationship between the Jewish community of Britain and sport and physical
recreation.
He is Lecturer in Modern History within the School of Humanities, having formerly held Visiting Lecturer positions within the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University and the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham.
His first research monograph, entitled Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and anti-Semitism, 1890-1970 is published in January 2013.
He has also contributed articles to numerous historical journals and has spoken widely about his research, both to academic audiences and at public events held by organisations such as the Memorial de la Shoah, Paris and the Manchester Jewish Museum.
6.15pm - Reception (Terrace Restaurant, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT).
7pm - Lecture begins.
61st Public Lecture Series
SPRING TERM
Admission: Free (voluntary contributions are welcomed)
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