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IJS 2023 Spring Lecture Series
Rethinking Nature in Ancient Judaism
10 January 2023
While it has been said that there is no word for nature in Hebrew until the Tibbonite translation from the Arabic, this lecture will argue that we can already see signs of natural thinking in ancient Jewish texts. Professor Najman will argue that Judaism, Hebrew, and the growth of new textual traditions continue to exhibit vitality and creative innovation throughout the Hellenistic period and beyond.
Hindy Najman is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and the Director of the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible at the University of Oxford.
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/vvW3x1QoJ_zu-UaWQbRcNvF-fJrargCTJ1LymoFuMBAxiyYlnDPPLpYTbcTpFM5U.QYyf8zbiOc8qD2U9
The Song of Songs, or how Greek Sex became Jewish Love
18 January 2023
How Greek ideas influenced the Song of Songs and turned it into a celebration of romantic love
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/teKNVi3jMJF7BFR7KVMLMygxiBBRXnOH12_SRiDOnV...
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Body as a Source of Pleasure and Pain around 1900: Female Polish-Jewish Perspectives
23 January 2023 ALL DAY HYBRID/ONLINE WORKSHOP
The early 1900s in the Polish lands was a time when body, and a woman’s body in particular, became a focus of the discussion between the supporters of women’s emancipation, physicians, social activists, writers and journalists. Because the discourses on female body and sexuality were impacted by the emergence of nationalism and racism, and the common view Jews were responsible for ‘white slavery’ as well as the rising number of prostitutes in the Kingdom of Poland and in Galicia, looking at those discourses from a Jewish perspective may further our understanding of Polish-Jewish relations, and of Jewish and Polish social and cultural history.
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Safer in Silence
23 January 2023
Screening of the documentary by author Corinne Chateau. Corinne, the daughter of a World War II refugee, searches for the truth of her family’s Polish past. Uncovering Jewish roots, she is pulled into a complex journey revealing startling revelations that force her to face the patterns of hiding and secrecy that have profoundly affected her life. There will be a panel discussion with Corinne Chateau, Holocaust survivor Agnes Kaposi, Antony Polonsky (Emeritus, Brandeis) and François Guesnet (UCL) on 'Survival, Trauma, Silence'
Recording link not available.
Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Social History: The Case of Slaves and Demons
1 February 2023
Slaves and the demonic as depicted in magical sources
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/XhnK2UEgTE0J2esjQsSCST6J4fD_2-b47uEUcusy32...
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Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel
7 February 2023
An in-depth investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel’s cultural and political development
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link not available.
Jewish How - To Books :The Circulation of Practical and Kabbalistic Knowledge
22 February 2023
This lecture focuses on largely unexplored handwritten Jewish how-to and recipe books produced in premodern Eastern and Central Europe.
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/ojn0w_TDxaJL34NVepQA3MIjLxW7Zb-8Q27kQXrxOb...
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Bird Streets
28 February 2023
A discussion of a collection of inter-connecting stories about streets in central Warsaw inhabited by Jews before 1939 and now demolished
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/vmsMh1-0t52ZPdeilxQuMWdQa8vz5rTVfKQE-4ommj...
Of Bits and Pieces, Ancient Data Management, and the Making of the Talmud
1 March 2023
A talk about the (possible) composition of the Babylonian Talmud
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/FM5nP9tSFAmtwB5sggUbKGNP9r-FuZ78J0ioJl3fZn...
The significance of the Menorah in ancient Judaism
8 March 2023
Talk by Professor Lutz Doering
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/6RZmNZfo8xPX1UNhfRsVGrHsKLsSYNHp5PA4Odz6Eb...
Jewish Life in Eastern Europe: Collected photographs
14 March 2023
Original photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording not available.
Jewish Chaplaincy in the British Armed Forces,
15 March 2023
A talk on how a minority faith was integrated into the British armed forces.
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/tv2aWyTF6ljsqQ8bIFWHE3UnqWomrfqjWiHbRnhW6y...
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The invention of the 'goyim'
22 March 2023
Lecture about whether the binary divisions between Jews and Gentiles are self-evident and how they arose
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/k1X8dof-cjgNt2E7kTelOkMjacqOnvT4ZVu_f43HRM...
Józef Piłsudski, Founding Father of Modern Poland
29 March 2023
The vision of Poland's national hero in the face of a changing Europe
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/xpnY3kDFlTU4SWMpmDYwjJjy62i-KJgEZnlt98xW22...
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The expulsion of the Jews of Prague
16 May 2023
The intercessory efforts of Diego d'Aguilar in support of the Jews of Prague expelled in 1744
Published by: Institute of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/sPl0CgwrEMxUMjPlwLvitK-6Cdw6NCcw6nvg2f1wFO...
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