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Join us for a talk with Barnabas Balint, Research Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Animals are hardly ever the focus of Holocaust history, but they do appear throughout its sources. This talk identifies the sources and methodology for writing a...
This study day on responses to Jewish archives is designed to coincide with Holocaust Centre North’s (HCN) Memorial Gestures group art exhibition, which showcases and celebrates the work of fourteen artist responding to artefacts in the HCN.
Join us for a talk with visual artist, Matt Smith. Matt Smith has recently completed an artist residence at Holocaust Centre North. He is interested in exploring how LGBTQ+ stories of the Holocaust can be made visible. This talk explores his work with the archive at Holocaust Centre North and provides a snap shot of...
A talk and round table event in connection with the Torah scrolls of the Memorial Scrolls Trust, kept in Yorkshire. Please join us for an afternoon of talks and conversations, organised by the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Programme Coffee, tea and refreshments 3.00-3.25 pm: Parkinson Court North, just outside Treasures of the...
You are invited to a research seminar co-hosted by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies and Centre for Jewish Studies, with speaker Dr Eva Frojmovic. Across Europe, Jewish communities were decimated in advance of the Black Death (Yersinia Pestis) epidemic of 1347-9; their communal buildings and cemeteries were expropriated. The...
We are delighted to host Ciara Shalome, creator of the Instagram page the Mizrahi Story.
The School of Languages, Cultures and Societies and the Centre for Jewish Studies invite you to a visiting talk by Karolina Krasuska (University of Warsaw).
Join us for an event co-organised by the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, with speaker Nathan Abrams, Professor in Film at Bangor University.
In this talk, Rob Freeman (Royal Armouries) and Dr Kit Heyam will explore how the researchers and volunteers uncovered histories of gender and sexuality within the Royal Armouries collection, challenging the traditional white, masculine, heterosexual version of history.
This event will feature personal family stories that connect University of Leeds staff with the Holocaust. It is not a history lecture but an encounter.