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2021 Spring IJS Public Lectures

 

IJS 2021 Spring and Summer Lecture Series

 

 

Jewish Life in Poland lecture photo
Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750

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,
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link not available. 

Dead Sea Scrolls lecture photo
Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so Sensational?

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.
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/FkhagUUjfvgKowfm7_0aqksdtQTEA4k682pRPEaC-Z...
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Placing the blame for Covid-19 lecture photo
Placing the Blame for COVID-19 in and on Ultra-Orthodox Communities

19 January 2021

Haredi communities and the external and internal rhetoric about COVID-19.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/xY2EpPbkZWxYC78SJ62e56nPrUIl20rrPkjbPt-Tzh...
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Antisemitism in the Bolshevik revolution lecture photo
Antisemitism in the Bolshevik Revolution

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
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/EMu_7U7OtCtInolgK0xPHChg6Mhoan0hLshyXkhgWs...
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Heavenly Places lecture photo
Heavenly Palaces in Judaism: a Historical Travel Guide

4 February 2021

An introduction to heavenly journeys in Jewish mysticism from late antiquity to early middle ages.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/cukc9itLvQafz0dco4OzRj6QxXNQmsx_f17Z2yPOCw...
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Dvorah Vogel lecture photo
Dvorah Vogel: Yiddish Modernist Poetry

9 February 2021

Dvorah (Debora) Vogel (1900-1942) considered Yiddish as central vehicle for her modernist writing experiments.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/pmzeh4IM_2bhyLlhKLjVtgA5Zx31-WI3Fyv405v6vM...
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Women in Hasidism lecture picture
Thoughts On the Study of the Role of Women in Hasidism

11 February 2021

Lecture by Naftali Lowenthal in memory of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert (1945-2020)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/D4Nrd6oj5QK5xoXdOepqaUmIZzWrfGLz9W7WAfT116...
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Humanism and Human Progress lecture picture
Jonathan Sacks Memorial Lecture : Humanism and Human Progress

17 February 2021

Prof Steven Pinker (Harvard) will discuss of human progress, material and moral, and its relation to humanism and Judaism
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/5LjVOtylA-djAiOMLCbkNClKnz5xZTOSVZ5TxR68rC...
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Legacy of the Shtetl lecture picture
The Legacy of the Shtetl: Investigating Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands

23 February 2021

Magdalena Waligórska and Natalia Romik (UCL) in conversation.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/GY2MXxDHfo-68V3fJjefJrH5sdSyMKGjWOeomPGKP8...
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The Bible in the 19th Century Culture lecture picture
The Bible in 19th-century Culture: biography and nationhood

4 March 2021

Tracing the history of the reception of the Bible in Victorian Britain with Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/ACTxOK_-napUkauGRuhoPSbEZEmwPTTMebCN5GfsC3...

Jews in a Band lecture picture
The Jews in the Band: Anders Army's Special Troups

9 March 2021

Fascinating insights about Jews in the entertainment troupes of the Anders Army in WW2
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/vImdBGi3o3stueAX_qmIo_n643MmDTHQdQ-HULsuav...
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Hebrew Manuscripts lecture photo
Hebrew Manuscripts: Journey of the Written Word

11 March 2021

A virtual tour of the exhibition at the British Library exploring the relationships between Jews and their neighbours
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

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

The work of Heaven and Earth and its creator lecture picture
The work of Heaven and Earth and its Creator

6 January 2021

Some notes on the Enoch “astronomical” tradition by Henryk Drawnel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/LRUSsc2_zOY-LTk7t4zP4hnmIvvit8RtEY3pYQ9qqy...
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The Rebellion of the Daughters lecture picture
The Rebellion of the Daughters: Young Jewish Women in Galicia 1900

13 April 2021

The educational gender gap and intergenerational conflict among young Jewish women in Galicia around 1900.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/EKLBgNxaAvvD2UxcwoorZTcA9ntKWY3kqNQsUowx22...

The Treasures of the Bezalel Narkiss lecture picture
The Treasures of the Bezalel Narkiss Jewish Art collection

6 May 2021

Lecture by Vladimir Levin of the Center for Jewish Arts, Jerusalem in memory of Thea Zucker
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: www.bfhu.org/product/the-treasures-of-the-bezalel-narkiss-jewish-art-collection/

Relationship between Jewish and non-jewish Germans before and after 1933 lecture picture
Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans before and after 1933

11 May 2021

Lecture by Professor Mary Fulbrook, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/8_H2zKtOHcvhLvkW0ULkFlFp2DyDiBGxI-_mvArCA5...
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The SS Officer's Armchair lecture picture
The SS Officer’s Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

20 May 2021

A gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two with Daniel Lee
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/9tXQGq-3D5RIHLGj8nnNkw5flo6ibJt7gKYaIlGIaw...
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As God is our judge lecture picture
'As God is our Judge’: Water Ordeals, from Babylon to Jerusalem

27 May 2021

Raymond Westbrook Memorial lecture with Professor Jack Sasson (Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, University of North Carolina)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/rq025547hxs1Pn9D_BaohLel8u34cciy7WoHCLZekY...
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Other Lectures in Collaboration with other departments: 

Enlightened Hasidic Yiddish: From Digital to Print-Media

Lecture from Ayala Fader (Fordham University) as part of the Ada Rapoport-Albert seminar series on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Yiddish among ex-Haredim

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
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Sources, Memory, Politics

Symposium in Honour of Professor Antony Polonsky in co-operation with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the Wiener Holocaust Library
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Weinreich's Transcarpathian Journey

This lecture will follow Uriel Weinreich through his interviews with Transcarpathian Yiddish speakers, Oyberlanders and Unterlanders.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Discussion Weekend: Ada Rapoport-Albert Seminar Series on Hasidic Yiddish

An opportunity to watch recordings of previous seminars and discuss topics arising in live panel discussions.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Gefilte fish and sushi: Hasidic orientation and vowel change in New York Hasidic Yiddish

Public lecture with Chaya Nove from The City University of New York (CUNY)
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

The Rise of Hasidic Yiddish theatre

Wojciech Tworek, University of Wrocław
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Attitudes toward Change in a Maintained Language: Yiddish in New York

Although most descendants of Yiddish-speaking immigrants to the United States are now monolingual in English, vibrant Yiddish-speaking communities continue to exist.
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies

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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.

 

snapshot of Ada in front of greenery