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Professor Kathy Lavezzo (Iowa University) Kathy Lavezzo specializes in medieval literary studies with special attention to issues of community, nationhood and social hierarchy; cultural geography and medieval cartography; Christian-Jewish relations; economy and trade; race and ethnicity; and gender and sexuality. https://english.uiowa.edu/people/kathy-lavezzo
The latest in the Sadler Seminar Series on the legacies of Zygmunt Bauman, with speaker Professor Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading).
Generously supported by a conference grant from the EAJS (European Association for Jewish Studies). Speakers Lorenzo Borgonovo (IMT-Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Jewish Museum Livorno between fascism and post-fascism David Clark (Independent Researcher) A Difficult Balancing Act: Portraying Jews as both Similar To and Different From Alexandra Cropper (Jewish Museum Manchester) UK roundtable Katalin...
Cultures of the Book Sadler Seminar Series Between mysticism and science: Menasseh ben Israel's printing work in 17th c Amsterdam Dr Eva Frojmovic, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds The talk is prompted by the recently opened online display of Menasseh ben Israel's imprints in the Cecil Roth Collection,...
The Construction of Genetic Identities: The Case of the Jewish Genome Prof. Erika Hagelberg (Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo; Cheney Fellow in the Arts, University of Leeds) New developments in DNA technology are having a huge impact on medical genetics, forensic identification, and exciting areas of research, including ancient DNA studies. But the technology...
This paper explores an alleged anti-Israeli bias in twenty-first-century France as portrayed in recent Franco-Jewish literature. The vectors of this alleged bias examined in the paper are the French media, the French political class, and the French intellectual class, including some of its Jewish members. The paper also considers the common assertion of a causal...
A talk by Eva Frojmovic Cecil Roth's collection of early modern printing in Hebrew and other languages is a unique resource that sheds light on so many aspects of early modern cultural history. The talk also marks the opening of an online exhibition on the Brotherton's website. https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/view/1195
Organised by Performing the Jewish Archive.
Displacement has been an integral part of the twentieth-century Jewish experience. Whether forced due to Nazi persecution, compelled by other oppressive factors, or entered into voluntarily in the hope of a new start, migration, internment and exile have affected musical, theatrical and literary output by Jewish artists in myriad ways. This conference seeks to interrogate...
Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the Astrolabe; The Establishment of a New Science in the 12th Century Within the ten-year period from 1140 to 1150, the first texts on the astrolabe were written in Hebrew, and several translations and original works were written in Latin. The texts were either translations of, or closely dependent on Arabic...