Events
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Memory objects in our libraries and in our attics
A talk about why Cecil Roth collected things that few others were interested in.
Holocaust Commemoration in Poland today
In the past two decades, there has been a new direction in Holocaust commemoration in Poland. The shift started with Jan Tomasz Gross’ book Neighbors (2000) on the pogrom in Jedwabne. Since then, Jewish history became institutionalised at the permanent exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (opened 2014) and Polish…
The Holocaust in Polish Popular Visual Culture 1945-1968
Join us for the latest in our research seminar series, with speaker Dr Tomasz Łysak of the University of Warsaw.
The Cecil Roth papers at Southampton
The latest in the Sadler Seminar Series, ‘The Archive After Cecil Roth: Jewish Studies, cultural history and the Cecil Roth Collection’, with Karen Robson, University archivist from Southampton University.
A Celebration of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Date: Thursday 29 November 2018 External URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-celebration-of-isaac-rosenberg-1890-1918-tickets-50912303069 Time: 15:00-19:15 Location: TBC Price: Free Categories: Reading, Talk A Celebration of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) with Vahni Capildeo, Elizabeth Cook, Ian Duhig, Jean Liddiard, Deborah Maccoby, Tony Rudolf, Jeffrey Wainwright, John Whale and others. Join us to commemorate the life and artistic achievement of poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg who died on the Western…
Extra-mural: “The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory”
Béla Guttmann (1899-1981) survived the Shoah in Hungary, he became a prominent international football coach, continuing his illustrious interwar career internationally. However, his wartime experience was not talked about until David Bolchover documented it in the book “The Greatest Comeback”. Come and hear the author speak about it. Leeds Grammar School, 19:30, tickets via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-bolchover-the-greatest-comeback-tickets-52044902705
Not only Freud: Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna
The 2018 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture with speaker Prof. (emer.) Mitchell G. Ash (University of Vienna).