IJS 2021 Spring and Summer Lecture Series
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.
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 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
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 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: 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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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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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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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 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...
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: 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
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: 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 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/
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: 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’: 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 StudiesYiddish 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 StudiesThe 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 StudiesWeinreich'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 StudiesDiscussion 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 StudiesGefilte 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 StudiesThe Rise of Hasidic Yiddish theatre
Wojciech Tworek, University of Wrocław
Published by: Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Institute of Hebrew & Jewish StudiesAttitudes 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