I'm giving a paper at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social on Tuesday 28th April at 4:15pm based on my research into the early history of cremation in the Bradford Reform Jewish community. The talk will also be live streamed. Please message me if you'd like the link to join!
Posts by Sophia Lambert
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171
Chag Pesach Sameach 🎉 Passover begins this week, when Jewish people take part in the seder, reading their Haggadah, which sets out the order for the meal.
Read about six Haggadahs from our network's collections here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/pesach-...
#Passover #JewishFestivals
Delighted to share that my latest blog post for the @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social is live. The post sheds light on a treasure trove of material relating to the Bradford Reform Jewry that I uncovered at the community's synagogue.
@jewishhistorical.bsky.social
Looking for sources relating to verticality and/or extractive penetration (queer focus) on #MiningHist #EnvHist Any suggestions most happily welcome!
📣New blog!
Sophia Lambert (@sophialambert100.bsky.social) on 'Crossing Borders: Expressing National Identity Through Headstones in the Bradford Reform Jewish Cemetery, 1877 to 1935'
#History #Memorial #Migration #Bradford 19thc 20thc 🗃️
👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
🚨New blog post!🚨
Learn more about #Hampshire’s #Jewish community in this piece by Immy Tozer, who writes about the Historic Jewish Hampshire project as part of her fellowship with with @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ⬇️
hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...
Read my latest blog about the German epitaphs on the headstones in Yorkshire's oldest Reform Jewish cemetery. My findings are based on my current research into the headstones of German Jewish immigrants in Bradford.
tinyurl.com/2wv5kecc
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Hanukkah Sameach! For the fifth night of Hanukkah, University of Leeds Library Special Collections have got some party invites for us 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯
📷 Leeds Jewish History
#Hanukkah #Archives
Call for Papers poster for the New Generation Group, Jewish Historical Society of England, at UCL. Conference title: ‘Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation’, 11 May 2026. Text notes themes around how Jewish lives and stories are told, plus sample topics and instructions to submit a 300-word abstract and 100-word bio to jhse.ngg@gmail.com by 15 February 2026.
📣 CfP: New Generation Group Conference “Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation”, UCL, Mon 11 May 2026.
20-min papers on how Jewish lives & stories are voiced, imagined & recorded.
300-word abstract + 100-word bio to jhse.ngg@gmail.com by 15 Feb 2026.
#JewishStudies