📕 🏆 Call for submissions: the 2027 BIAJS Book Prize! Inviting applications from books in any area of academic Jewish Studies related to early modern through contemporary period across all disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts and Law). EOI deadline is 15 Jan: biajs.co.uk/2026/10/06/c...

Call open for Book Prize 2027

Call for Submissions: 2027 Book Prize   We are pleased to announce that the BIAJS book prize is now accepting submissions of interest for 2027, in the category of early modern through contempo…

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For any BIAJS colleagues based in Berlin, make sure to attend this symposium next week featuring scholars from @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @sspatleeds.bsky.social @campionhall.bsky.social

Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie@bit-humboldtuni.bsky.social · 7d ago

+++ CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT +++ "Patterns of Prejudice" (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) is celebrating its 60th anniversary! To mark this milestone, E. Becker (co-editor, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social) & M. Gharaibeh (@bit-humboldtuni.bsky.social) invite you to the symposium "Entangled Others". ⬇️

Next Tuesday, 13 Oct, 6pm: the annual Howard Rein Lecture. Dr Jane Brooks (@manchester.ac.uk) on the refugee women who fled Nazi Europe and became nurses in Britain, despite hospital resistance and antisemitism. Avenue Campus & Zoom. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jewish-ref...

Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession

Join us for the annual Howard Rein Lecture, this year given by Dr Jane Brooks.

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What can a songbook tell us about life in a Nazi slave labour camp? Our latest exhibition reveals the story of the Nazis' brutal slave labour system through unique items from our archive, including this rare illustrated pamphlet.

Our new digital game is up . Thankyou Glasgow Caledonian University BSc (Hons) Games Development students! #gamesdevelopment #glasgowcaledonianuniversity

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. Hear about this and more on the CYP’s brilliant ‘Protest & Politics’ episode open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib... @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @london.gov.uk @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @clivesg.bsky.social

2. Forverts! Politics and protest

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Tonight @ 6.30pm!

BISA at Birkbeck@bisa-bkk.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’re looking forward to ‘The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now’ tomorrow with with Nadia Valman, Liam Liburd (@liamliburd.bsky.social) and Joseph Finlay (@josephfinlay.bsky.social). Book here to join us: bit.ly/4xoQuJC

Deadline now extended to this Sunday 11 October! Find out more and apply via @ehri-uk.bsky.social www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...

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EHRI-UK@ehri-uk.bsky.social · last wk.

⏳ You have until Friday 2 October to apply for a EHRI-UK National Research Fellowship! Applicants are encouraged to consult the EHRI-UK Collections Map to find relevant archives at which to base their research. For more information and to apply visit www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...

Happening this week! An online lecture by the winner of this year's Ernst Fraenkel prize will take place this Thursday evening. Book your place now: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtua...

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📣 Join us on 11 October for an online lecture with the winner of this year's Ernst Fraenkel Prize! Amber Nickell will be discussing her work, Brotherlands to Bloodlands: Ethnic Germans and Jews in Southern Ukraine, Late Tsarist to Postwar Free tickets: buff.ly/XcRQeBw

1956 seen through the eyes of an exile: free screening of Robert Vas's My Homeland (BBC, 1976) at the Liszt Institute London, 3 Nov, 6.30pm. Parkes Director James Jordan joins the panel with poet György Gömöri. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hungar...

The Hungarian Uprising 1956 - Seen Through the Eyes of an Exile

Robert Vas: My Homeland - Film screening and panel discussion

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Hopped over to Oxford for a day of the 500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium. Congrats to PhD student Giovanna Truong for putting together a rich program of talks and an Early Modern Yiddish song workshop with Diana Matut. @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

A 3-day EHRI seminar is taking place now at the beautiful former synagogue St. Pölten in Austria, organised by @ehri-de.bsky.social and EHRI-AT members. The keynote is by Rachel Pistol of @ehri-uk.bsky.social. A truly trans-national event! A report will follow. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-seminar...

Moadim L'simchah 🎉 During Sukkot, we're revisiting some of our favourite Collections Encounters. Next up is the Liverpool Record Office at Liverpool Libraries and Information Services. Read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect... #Archives #Liverpool #JewishHistory

On 5 October, the Wiener Holocaust Library hosts a book talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer on their new book, Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. 5 October, 3:00–4:30pm. Details here: lbilondon.ac.uk/events/book-love-loss

www.jhse.org/event-detail... Jews in the Welsh Imagination Mon 2 Nov 6pm Zoom JHSE President Prof Gavin Schaffer talks to Dr Nathan Abrams about his recent book, asking how Wales has imagined Jews, Judaism and Israel-Palestine from medieval times to the present. £5 - JHSE members free Book now ⬇️

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President's conversation and lecture series

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Applications are now open for the OSRJL Jewish Music Class for Michaelmas Term 2026! This term will focus on Yiddish Song Cultures, from the 1300s to the 21st Century! For more information, visit the following webpage: www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #music #MusicHistory #oxford

📣 Save the date! The 7th Alfred Wiener Memorial Lecture will be delivered by esteemed historian Professor Zoë Waxman Her talk, Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz, will explore how analysis of these remains can offer new insights into the Holocaust buff.ly/xZtKmwR

omorrow! Our 26/27 seminar series opens with @brunssen.bsky.social on 'The Making of "Jew Clubs": Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures'. 📅 Tues 29 September, 6pm BST 📍 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...

Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 3w ago

Register now for the first talk of our 26/27 seminar series, @brunssen.bsky.social on 'The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures'. 📅 29 September, 6pm 📍 Online via Zoom 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...

Moadim L'simchah 🎉 With Sukkot still being celebrated, we're revisiting some of our favourite Collection Encounters. First up is Dock Worker IDs to the Battle of Cable Street with @tharchives.bsky.social Read the full blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect...

Chag Sukkot Sameach 🎉 Sukkot begins at sunset tonight. This photograph from @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social shows children at the Jewish orphanage at Norwood, seated at the table in their sukkah around 1955-58. Read more about the orphanage here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/sukk... #Sukkot

📢 Our Semester 1 lecture & seminar programme is here! Talks this term cover football fandom and antisemitism, Jewish refugee nurses in Britain, Jewish-Black anti-racist activism, and more. All hybrid and open to everyone. Full programme & booking on our Eventbrite 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/o/the-parkes...

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The Parkes Institute

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Join us on 5 October for a book talk about a new work, Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust The evening will include a book talk by co-authors Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer followed by a reception with an opportunity for book signing @rutgersupress.bsky.social buff.ly/DuxIEv4

The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of German-speaking Jewry is now inviting submissions for its 2028 Year Book Essay Prize. Full rules and details on how to enter are available on the LBI website: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/publications... Closing date 1 March 2027

📍 Exhibition Open Day! 📅 Sunday 11 October 🎟 Free guided tour - booking now open Join us for a weekend opening of our exhibition gallery, offering an exclusive chance to see this exhibition outside of our usual hours buff.ly/oJ2VlXD

Yom Kippur was observed last Sunday and Monday, so we share the cover of a Yom Kippur sermon given by Rabbi Raymond Apple in 1972, from the archives of Rabbi Abraham Levy buff.ly/AlW9WER @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @cjewishhistory.bsky.social

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Register now for the first talk of our 26/27 seminar series, @brunssen.bsky.social on 'The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures'. 📅 29 September, 6pm 📍 Online via Zoom 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...

Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football & Fan Cultures

Join us for an online talk from Dr Pavel Brunssen on 'The Making of "Jews Clubs"'.

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G’mar Chatima Tova 🔯 At sundown on Sunday, Jewish communities begin marking Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. This painting, titled 'In the Synagogue' is by Alfred Wolmark, is in the collections at Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. #YomKippur #JewishArt #HighFestivals

📣 Coming soon! In 1894 in Paris, Alfred Dreyfus was arrested and falsely accused of treason. As the only Jewish captain in the French Army, antisemitism underlay his conviction for selling military secrets to Germany...

Incredible semester of events from @parkesinstitute.bsky.social as usual - don’t miss out!

Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Our Semester 1 lecture & seminar programme is here! Talks this term cover football fandom and antisemitism, Jewish refugee nurses in Britain, Jewish-Black anti-racist activism, and more. All hybrid and open to everyone. Full programme & booking on our Eventbrite 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/o/the-parkes...

A wonderful report of highlights from this year’s BIAJS - and you can submit proposals for 2027 now! See the full cfp in our pinned post - next year in Leeds 🤩

Leo Baeck Institute London@lbilondon.bsky.social · 3w ago

A new conference report by LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl on the 2026 British Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) meeting is now available on our website. Read the full report: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... #BIAJS2026