Lovely to see British Yiddishists going across the pond!

the video of our webinar with 3 brilliant scholars @terezahendl.bsky.social, Yudit Namer & @annaziel.bsky.social — on antisemitism, inter-imperiality & anti-Slavic racism in Germany & beyond, and what a non-carceral anti-antisemitism & real anti-fascism would be like

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She was also a leading expert on Sabbateanism, a messianic movement of the mid 17th c and a major spiritual upheaval in Jewish diasporic history... Ada was particularly interested in the role of women in this antinomian movement.

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Our @samsamev.bsky.social and Laura Harris (as well as Pierre Sintes’ photography) feature in the new issue of @unisouthampton.bsky.social’s re:action magazine

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A very exciting day coming up at the Barbican!

Join us on our public tours to explore Scotland's rich Jewish history and step inside the beautiful Victorian Garnethill Synagogue.

Tuesdays at 10.30am
Thursdays at 2.00pm
✨Plus an additional tour on Sunday 26th April

Book your place via the link in our bio!

The second Challenging Conversations video is now available to watch. This discussion focuses on Jewish communal life and what established community organisations and grassroots movements can learn from each other.

Watch it here: rothschildfoundation.eu/challenging-...

#JewishCommunity

Join us this week for LBI London Film Club as we screen Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel, a British documentary presented by David Baddiel and featuring the voice of Stephen Fry.

Watch the film FREE online this week only: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/film-club-he...

‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ Special Seminar Series - The Wiener Holocaust Library We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

This new academic lecture series will provide a forum for established and early career researchers to present on groundbreaking new research.

Find out more:

Applications close today!

Tomorrow! This is going to a blast for sure — David Baddiel in conversation with Devorah Baum

Reminder: our NGG conference is only 3 weeks away, so make sure to register if you haven’t already!

Oneg Shabbat Box - hiddentreasurenew A metal box from the Warsaw Ghetto's Oneg Shabbat archive

This box, on display in Imperial War Museum London‘s Holocaust Galleries, contained part of the Ringelblum Archive - documents and testimonies from those living in the Warsaw ghetto collected at the time.

Read more about it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/on...

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Funded by the Silver Family & Jewish History Association of Wales, this MA by Research studentship will investigate the experiences of the Jewish women of immigrant Jewish communities of Wales, contributing to multicultural dimensions of Welsh social history with Professor Nathan Abrams' supervision

Calling all prospective MA students!

'The Irene Silver Memorial Scholarship: The Experiences of Jewish Women in Wales' is accepting applications until 14th July

Start Date: 28th September @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk for questions & submission! More details below…

Tomorrow evening!

Applications are now open for the International Summer Institute on Modern Balkan & Mediterranean Jewries, taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 22–26 June 2026.

Find out more: shorturl.at/lbAyv

Last week we walked through the Gorbals, tracing the footsteps of Glasgow’s Jewish community.

Using images from our Immigration – Making a Life in the Gorbals learning kit, we explored how these streets once looked and the lives that shaped them.

Discover more on our website! 🔗 in bio

🎉 Registration for the NGG Conference, "Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation," is now open!

Join us on Monday 11 May at UCL for a day of research, discussion, and networking!

Attendance is free, and lunch is included.

Register here: forms.gle/qdGynU67WkX5...

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling man with short dark hair, glasses, and light stubble against a plain background.

Grief. Fame. Jewishness. Cats. Erotic poetry.

Join @realbaddiel.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum as he discusses his bestselling memoir 'My Family' at this year’s Parkes Lecture.

📅 21 April, 6pm
📍 Avenue Campus & online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-badd...

Last month, Parkes PGR and Outreach Fellow @maddiewalch.bsky.social launched the exhibition 'Memories of Fear': The Artwork of Gerda Cohen at God's House Tower in Southampton. Read more about the exhibition and Maddie’s reflections on curating it here:
🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...

Tomorrow at @parkesinstitute.bsky.social !

‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ Special Seminar Series - The Wiener Holocaust Library We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

We are excited to announce a special seminar series on ‘Emotions in the Holocaust’ that will run in the 2026 calendar year.

This new academic lecture series will provide a forum for established and early career researchers to present on groundbreaking new research.

Find out more:

A detailed pencil drawing of a 17th-century man dressed in black with a beard and a large hat.

This sketch by Rembrandt, held by Jewish Museum London, is of Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel.

Read about his 1655 petition to Oliver Cromwell asking to readmit Jews to Britain and allow them to worship: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/me...

A man with short grey hair and glasses stands outdoors near a water fountain, holding documents and wearing a blazer and sweater, with trees and a brick building in the background.

Congratulations to Professor Tony Kushner who has been awarded one of the highest international honours in the field of Holocaust studies, the 2026 Distinguished Achievement Award in Holocaust Studies from @hefnu.bsky.social 👏

Read more👉 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Mysticism and mentorship: Ada Rapoport-Albert, leading scholar of Jewish Studies Ada Rapoport-Albert was a respected scholar of Jewish history, Hasidism and mysticism and a foundational figure in UCL’s Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Wonderful to see Ada Rapoport-Albert honoured as one of the ‘UCL at 200' faces!

www.ucl.ac.uk/about/search...

We can't wait to see this from BIAJS member @sgollance.bsky.social !

Come and work with us @ioe.bsky.social - the World's Number 1 Education Faculty in the QSS world education rankings for the 13th year in a row this year - in our world leading Centre for Holocaust Education? @uclholocaust.bsky.social

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Emailing today with a past president (long ago) and loyal member of BIAJS in modern Jewish film history, I am struck by how special our association is and how important cross-disciplinary ties are for a thriving Jewish studies in the UK. BIAJS conferences make such great memories.

Golders Green ambulance attack: how this part of London became a home for Jews Golders Green started to develop as a place of Jewish settlement from the first world war onwards.

In our latest @uk.theconversation.com article, our Professor Tony Kushner writes about the Golders Green ambulance attack, and how the London suburb became a home for Jews👇

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