British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies
UK/Ireland
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Registration is now open for #BIAJS2026 at Birkbeck, London, 13-25 July
bbk.ac.uk/events/event/62392…
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I wrote this a decade ago but I’m re-posting it now to mark the 50th anniversary of the movie
The REAL meaning of Jaws thejc.com/life/the-real-mean…
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Here’s our article, from the end of July. It’s a reflection on Diane Abbott’s revisiting the question of antisemitism and/as racism. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
🎆 @prospect_uk’s birthday means paywall til Sunday. 🎆
Here’s some great pieces on antisemitism, including by David Edgar, @daverich1, @joglanville1, @rachshabi, & @KeithKahnHarris, plus a recent thing by @BrendanMcGeever, David Feldman and me.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
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Extended deadline til 5th October!
CFP for EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' 7 Dec 2025, inviting cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives & material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more…
Abstracts: 18 Sept lnkd.in/ey3fie6c
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#Blog | Sophia Lambert on the MS 1985 Czech Torah scroll, also known as the Brno scroll | Project: Learning from #Yorkshire's Holocaust Torah scrolls | @UniversityLeeds
#Buchgeschichte #Holocaust #TorahRolle
Details: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.co…
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#Event | Bridges and Boundaries, Australian Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, on February 8-9, 2026 in Sydney, Australia | Details: jewishstudies.de/de/nachrich…
#Jews #Christians #relations #AAJS #Jewishstudies
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025
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An Unorthodox Story: British Jews since 1945
8 Sept 8pm Chigwell Hainault Synagogue
(Hybrid)
JHSE Pres Gavin Schaffer discusses his recently-published book exploring complexities of life outside mainstream Jewish communities
£5 - Members free
Book ⬇️ jhse.org/event-details/an-un…
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Beloff House at @UniOfBuckingham - named after renowned British historian and Conservative peer Max Beloff (1913-1999), born into a Russian-Jewish family, principal of the University College of Buckingham in 1970s.
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We are excited to be sharing our academic programme for the year 2025/26 with you soon. Stay tuned! 📖 😃
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#CFP ✍️
The future of research in Bible Society collections
On 26 & 27 Sept, The future of research in Bible Society collections conference will bring together scholars & technical experts to learn from each other across disciplines
Submit by 15 August
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/4744…
ALT Call for papers: The future of research in Bible Society collections. Deadline 25 August 2025.
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These plans, held by @GlamArchives @JHASW2018 in @pplscollection, show the vision for Cardiff's Cathedral Road Synagogue in 1897.
Designed by Delissa Joseph, a smaller version served the community until 1989. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.or…
#JewishHistory #Archives
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If you are doing research, writing at a scholarly or postgraduate level, and would like to apply, please send a CV, a letter stating how your academic values align with the @centre_as, a bio for the website and a picture, to [email protected]. londonantisemitism.com/team/
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Undeniably cool from a language access perspective.
It reminds me of when one of Ireland’s most notable historical figures, James Connolly, used a Yiddish-language election leaflet when he ran as an Irish Socialist Republican Party candidate for Dublin’s heavily Jewish and immigrant Wood Quay constituency in 1902.
Some very exciting stuff came in the mail this last week, shout out to @PortlandDSA/@wweek and @nycDSA/@LydiaGreenBK
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Call for applications: ‘Jewish City Biographies: Issues, Themes, and the Definition of a Genre’ at the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference in Barcelona, Spain, 2-5 September 2026. Deadline for applications: 22 October 2025
eurojewishstudies.org/homepa…
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I'm excited to announce that I am one of the three writers chosen from @SerenBooks' Fiction & Non-Fiction Call-out to develop my book idea into a publication proposal! serenbooks.com/2025/07/annou…
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"Outside of small networks of Jewish radicals, the Bund and its ideals were relegated to history. Yet here, in Medway, that radically local Jewish way of being continues to take shape." Ella Halpern-Matthews on doikayt in Medway: vashtimedia.com/medway-kent-…
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🕍 FREE EVENT: Exploring #Jewish and #Victorian Cemetery Architecture and Heritage. Discover hidden stories and striking architecture on special guided walk, in conjunction with #HeritageOpenDays & #openhouse Festival
Sunday, 14th September, 2 pm
shorturl.at/8iitf
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New on our YouTube channel:
'Was 7 October a 'pogrom'? History, language and the concept of antisemitism'. Listen to Matthew Bolton discuss the complexities of comparing 7 October and its aftermath with past incidents of Jewish persecution.
youtu.be/X2yR6XnWzqA?si=tUxE…
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Looking forward to your applications! @JHSEngland @The_EAJS
Hiring ... you? We are inviting applications from individuals familiar with the field of Jewish Historical Studies and/or Jewish communal life in the UK to join us as a network coordinator. @JHSEngland #JewishStudies @JewishStudiesUK
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Proceedings from 'Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions,' a 3 day conference held at Oriel College, University of Oxford, have been published!
The volume can be accessed via the following link:
openbookpublishers.com/books…
