BAJS conference 2020
The Centre for Jewish Studies is organising a panel about “Jewish heritage and crisis” at the BAJS annual conference in Southampton 13-15 July 2020.
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Sadler Seminar Series
Eva Frojmovic and Jay Prosser were awarded by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute a small grant for the Sadler Seminar Series “The Archive after Cecil Roth: Jewish studies, cultural history and the Cecil Roth Collection”. For further details, see https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-arts-humanities-research-institute/doc/archive-cecil-roth-jewish-studies-cultural-history-cecil-roth-collection
Montague Burton PhD Fee Bursary in Jewish Studies
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.
Moses Gaster’s wax cylinder recordings of Samaritan chant relocated!
A set of 13 unique, almost a century old wax cylinder recordings of Samaritan chant have been found safe and sound in the strong room of the Brotherton Library. The cylinders were given to the University of Leeds by Vivian Gaster, Moses Gaster’s son. They are presently being assessed by the conservation team.
Conference: Jewish Museologies and the Politics of Display
Sun 13- Mon 14 March 2016, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds Generously supported by a grant from the EAJS (European Association for Jewish Studies). Confirmed speakers: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Independent Curator and Researcher, Vienna) Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw) Cilly Kugelmann (Jewish Museum, Berlin) A two-day international symposium is…
The Library of Rescued Memories to be shown 16-22 June 2015
The exhibition “The Library of Rescued Memories” is a selection of photographs and interviews conducted with Jewish people in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans during 2000-2010 by the Centropa Institute, Vienna. It is like viewing and reading a vast family album spanning the history of the whole 20th century! The exhibition will be…
Wagner conference dares to face demons
http://pvac-sites.leeds.ac.uk/wagner2013/ A Wagner conference with a difference, organised not only to celebrate an anniversary, but also to confront some of the darker aspects of Wagner’s impact. Organised by Dr Steve Muir.
INSIGHT PALESTINA conference 7 June ’12: registration now open
The joint University of Leeds – University of Huddersfield conference will take place at Leeds Uni on 7 June 2012. Co-organised by Dr. Gil Pasternak (The University of Huddersfield) and Lior Libman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The University of Leeds), ‘Insight Palestina’ will focus on visual and textual images produced within, and in relation…
New Pears Lecturer in Israel and Middle East Studies
Congratulations to Dr Alan Craig, who has been appointed Pears Lecturer in Israel and Middle East Studies.
Montague Burton Fellow appointed
Congratulations to Dr Annette Seidel-Arpaci who has been appointed Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies for the duration of semester 1, September 2011 to January 2012. The Fellow will be expected to teach a class on the Holocaust in contemporary culture, as well as persue their own agenda of research, especially in conjunction with the research…