The Centre houses two main branches: a research centre for Jewish visual and cultural studies, and the project Antisemitism in Contemporary Culture (supported by the Stanley and Audrey Burton Trust).
The Centre for Jewish Studies is a transdisciplinary research centre based in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. It was set up in 1995 to continue the Jewish Studies legacy of the Department of Semitic Studies, and to build bridges with a number of Arts disciplines by means of the interdisciplinary Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies.
The Centre houses two main branches: a research centre for Jewish visual and cultural studies, and the project Antisemitism in Contemporary Culture (supported by the Stanley and Audrey Burton Trust).
Please join us for more presentations by colleagues across the disciplines, reflecting on the development of Holocaust studies at the...
Please note: This seminar has been postponed and and the rescheduled date will be announced shortly.
In the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day, please join us for presentations by colleagues across the disciplines, reflecting on the development of Holocaust studies at the University of Leeds since the 1990s.
Dr Eva Frojmovic is one of three speakers taking part in this Parkes Institute Research Seminar organised by the University of Southampton.
The Centre for Jewish Studies is organising a panel about “Jewish heritage and crisis” at the BAJS annual conference in...
Eva Frojmovic and Jay Prosser were awarded by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute a small grant for the...
One Montague Burton PhD Bursary in Jewish Studies is available in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies for session 2018/19. The bursary will cover fees at the Home/EU rate. Closing date: extended to 15 June.
A set of 13 unique, almost a century old wax cylinder recordings of Samaritan chant have been found safe and...