2022 Spring IJS Public Lectures

IJS 2022 Spring and Summer Lecture Series

18 January 2022

In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice by Michael Fleming (IPJS) with the Wiener Library
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link not available.

25 January 2022

A conversation with Agnes Kaposi, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Holocaust survivor, at the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/ArImosuSYb4cFZnR-e3reLzW_hITYs0kBtAEKwX4M6QpUor6czB1tyy1l39exT5p.WCrSNL6SvOhig-lc 
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1 February 2022

One day online conference to launch Volume 34 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/-csufm9hLQsY9HHouQLFPLBOo7hLjMB7DGGzjmRq-9vFYywoGorlCCASXCh3Be9N.syu6_vLuh4jRjusO 
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9 February 2022

Ancient rabbinic advice about mad dogs with Lennart Lehmhaus, lecturer at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Tübingen
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/4yHqujeQKwb-irDxW1trx7qt2AWCzfBNp0OU_aEfEzPGUQeWPhvbhLU5yVVRgBds.gcih7QVDcT7quZ0X 
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23 February 2022

Lecture by David Hamidovic (University of Lausanne)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/VlXNAw5UMZzYm_soFnKbTx77psS_L6KMDbKuoS34j7KAjAcMuEQ22Y10Ts3sh3t6.d7witO6RL0lOxgG-

1 March 2022

Talk and book launch about how Polish Jews survived in the Soviet Union during war time
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/oMS3ti_mraHu-vL9bbAL03EsNTYlMGqHEXvQCC-19D0l15whvCbkcT-sK9QwyICK.908VcNzTdmth5vsi

8 March 2022

Lecture focusing on an enigmatic group of Yiddish writers in 1930s Johannesburg who challenged traditional views of Yiddish culture
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/bOvct5xMKQg3Nl1j37SW9f9o9ZSxnUnbU8M5y9djx8FeBzNgmyJIIHrTIc-t29Ym.cJAmSlYT4Th7Tfxd

15 March 2022

An examination of Zionist activism in East-Central Europe during the years 1914 to 1920 from Jan Rybak (Birkbeck) chaired by François Guesnet (UCL)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/boWDoEYI8LqATE2BDJ1nDpibMk-6NdqXxm7_ZHoHkVhx0QBjZmlrwyi7pxAf2ueg.SZ6GSV-H-qxlfLJB

23 March 2022

Postumous book launch in memory of Leon Yudkin
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/jf6J76x_FW3afVAOteYBfuL-8fkpGE2K0QGbsnomVIVoHu-jdJkhbuHTIAKn-eg9.e9geVxWxMPnt1jME

29 March 2022

Virtual book launch of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: the Pogroms of 1918/1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeff Veidlinger chaired by François Guesnet
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/452tWO95Ai427Tot0TO_DARWG1goHV1BLWuI9ZiRjB8pgGHUCqDKMZJmp2y2mbST.QuOF4c7OlsaoMhpL

30 March 2022

Thea Zucker Memorial lecture by Sergio della Pergola, Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at the Hebrew University
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://www.bfhu.org/product/jewish-populations-and-identities-in-the-21st-century/

Bob Beckling (Emeritus Senior Research Professor of Hebrew Bible of the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University). In this lecture, he will present the idea of the ‘circle of five’. The five steps: 1. Landscape; 2. Climate; 3. Archaeology; 4. Epigraphy; 5. Hebrew Bible, will be taken in that order. It will concentrate on a few examples such as the life of David and the Babylonian Exile. 

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/Qj8GK9-GfeaTAqrESiShD25nbZjxa0z8vwhNzEAKaNPKZqER2qCX52TMVm6xwWhy.6WNL0KXC5T1Md40T

8 June 2022

Steve Mason contests the view that Josephus was a paid-up mouthpiece of the Flavian regime.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/cWZw52G0EY7ywED1PwNF9O2oOkpAJzox_hj6BZrpG5Olni8tO9eL8LbLt2Wt-xRC.v2BPX2Ia4zqDicCB

16 June 2022

This workshop features a select group of scholars who will address the idea of ‘apocalypse’ within their own respective disciplines, allowing for different novel perspectives from sources not usually taken into consideration. The event will present an opportunity to engage with the latest thinking on this important topic.   

Conference Organisers: Paul Joyce (KCL), Jonathan Stokl (KCL), Sacha Stern (UCL), Mark Geller (UCL)

Recording not available.

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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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