2021 Spring IJS Public Lectures
IJS 2021 Spring and Summer Lecture Series
11 January 2021
A one-day Online Conference to launch Volume 33 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry organised by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, the Institute of Jewish Studies, and JW3 London. Co-organised and supported by the Polish Cultural Institute,
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Recording link not available.
14 January 2021
Prof James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary) on why scholars concur that the recovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the most sensational discovery of ancient writings.
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/FkhagUUjfvgKowfm7_0aqksdtQTEA4k682pRPEaC-Zz4YdUmw0kTtJRpaGNPEfpX.mjK3NLbNHHqrzVD_
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19 January 2021
Haredi communities and the external and internal rhetoric about COVID-19.
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/xY2EpPbkZWxYC78SJ62e56nPrUIl20rrPkjbPt-TzhXSANV01lsQQpdvIvZkSwHn.nJTyqCK05is7im2T
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20 January 2021
In collaboration with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies with Dr Brendan McGeever, and Prof Elissa Bemporad responding; Prof François Guesnet, Chairing
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/EMu_7U7OtCtInolgK0xPHChg6Mhoan0hLshyXkhgWsoAxzWAyBtgRU0crdvPDSr7.5T1_vGGenpLmqd0v
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4 February 2021
An introduction to heavenly journeys in Jewish mysticism from late antiquity to early middle ages.
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/cukc9itLvQafz0dco4OzRj6QxXNQmsx_f17Z2yPOCw7qPtf6cR_DMbXm5-cMxmgo.rzNMckHmppL97v3x
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9 February 2021
Dvorah (Debora) Vogel (1900-1942) considered Yiddish as central vehicle for her modernist writing experiments.
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/pmzeh4IM_2bhyLlhKLjVtgA5Zx31-WI3Fyv405v6vM6mB43ASitMdp6qoG7-hT8y.tPnvoAhcPd_K76ri
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11 February 2021
Lecture by Naftali Lowenthal in memory of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert (1945-2020)
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/D4Nrd6oj5QK5xoXdOepqaUmIZzWrfGLz9W7WAfT1164QplbbxTgnR1v4Zc3i_Ava.2NU31PVhrxx8chXt
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17 February 2021
Prof Steven Pinker (Harvard) will discuss of human progress, material and moral, and its relation to humanism and Judaism
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/5LjVOtylA-djAiOMLCbkNClKnz5xZTOSVZ5TxR68rC0Hg0ndE5oQXOUb19CTig.z4wfrPGseX8E3IqI
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23 February 2021
Magdalena Waligórska and Natalia Romik (UCL) in conversation.
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/GY2MXxDHfo-68V3fJjefJrH5sdSyMKGjWOeomPGKP8Oe8vi1sitXe_60kxN_i9hE.4egfXO1IgdgcB4pO
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4 March 2021
Tracing the history of the reception of the Bible in Victorian Britain with Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/ACTxOK_-napUkauGRuhoPSbEZEmwPTTMebCN5GfsC3ZTFbdTEt0ieWDWQCjTpoFy.pf7x-l8c_M9_JdHe
9 March 2021
Fascinating insights about Jews in the entertainment troupes of the Anders Army in WW2
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/vImdBGi3o3stueAX_qmIo_n643MmDTHQdQ-HULsuavnAg54XN12hbuPvYnd66G4.oYcnrv-bTQkctW3A
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11 March 2021
A virtual tour of the exhibition at the British Library exploring the relationships between Jews and their neighbours
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Recording link not available due to copyright reasons. However you can view the manuscripts and others the following way:
The link to the Digitised Manuscripts site is: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
The link to the 3D virtual Tour of the Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word exhibition is: https://v21artspace.com/hebrew-manuscripts-journeys-of-the-written-word
Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word exhibition, PACCAR2 Gallery, the British Library open until Sunday 6 June 2021: https://www.bl.uk/events/hebrew-manuscripts
6 January 2021
Some notes on the Enoch “astronomical” tradition by Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/LRUSsc2_zOY-LTk7t4zP4hnmIvvit8RtEY3pYQ9qqyoz1xhEXPa752je-ZUtXQdn.9tEtwU4jXFkPC3P-
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13 April 2021
The educational gender gap and intergenerational conflict among young Jewish women in Galicia around 1900.
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/EKLBgNxaAvvD2UxcwoorZTcA9ntKWY3kqNQsUowx22zpyCPm-hsb0VGApQeRVWp_.zqdrBKsHEPNcz-57
6 May 2021
Lecture by Vladimir Levin of the Center for Jewish Arts, Jerusalem in memory of Thea Zucker
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Recording link: www.bfhu.org/product/the-treasures-of-the-bezalel-narkiss-jewish-art-collection/
11 May 2021
Lecture by Professor Mary Fulbrook, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/8_H2zKtOHcvhLvkW0ULkFlFp2DyDiBGxI-_mvArCA5BB_n_jFvQoy-lfRR7uJxTM.C2YrmuYO2jARBnTj
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20 May 2021
A gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two with Daniel Lee
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Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/9tXQGq-3D5RIHLGj8nnNkw5flo6ibJt7gKYaIlGIawFRxejrr6NPZoW-zH_TgOnb.vLElqikRwZojoqpq
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27 May 2021
Raymond Westbrook Memorial lecture with Professor Jack Sasson (Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, University of North Carolina)
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Lecture from Ayala Fader (Fordham University) as part of the Ada Rapoport-Albert seminar series on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
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Yiddish is often thought of as a dying language, or as a language confined to insular Haredi communities. However, this view ignores the growing numbers of Yiddish speakers who choose to leave Haredi communities and live more secular lives. Public
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Symposium in Honour of Professor Antony Polonsky in co-operation with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the Wiener Holocaust Library
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This lecture will follow Uriel Weinreich through his interviews with Transcarpathian Yiddish speakers, Oyberlanders and Unterlanders.
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An opportunity to watch recordings of previous seminars and discuss topics arising in live panel discussions.
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Public lecture with Chaya Nove from The City University of New York (CUNY)
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Wojciech Tworek, University of Wrocław
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Although most descendants of Yiddish-speaking immigrants to the United States are now monolingual in English, vibrant Yiddish-speaking communities continue to exist.
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Ada Rapoport-Albert seminar series on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
This online seminar series is devoted to all aspects of Hasidic Yiddish language and linguistics, both historical and contemporary. Seminars and roundtable discussions will be held on Zoom one evening a month from August 2020 to July 2021. The series will include participants from a wide variety of academic backgrounds including linguistics, Yiddish studies, and Yiddish pedagogy, with speakers from within and outside Hasidic Yiddish-speaking communities. Talks are free and open to the public. The series comprises an element of our ongoing AHRC-funded research project on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish based in the UCL Departments of Linguistics and Hebrew & Jewish Studies. It is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert (1945-2020) and her scholarly work on the history of Hasidism.
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