Calling doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in UK Jewish studies - one week is left to apply for this great chance to attend Limmud Festival for only £78!

Anoushka Alexander-Rose@anoushka-ar.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 all UK-based PhDs and ECRs in jewish studies: apply to attend Limmud festival 2026 at a 90% discount, receive invaluable mentoring and become part of an emerging cohort! Deadline: 31st July Email phdprogramme@limmud.org for questions More info & apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Great to see this highlight of Nathan's work. And when not doing research or teaching he is also looking after BIAJS as our fantastic Treasurer, too! @biajs.bsky.social

The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · 4w ago

The writer revealing the untold stories of the Jews in Wales www.thejc.com/life/books/t...

⚠️ 10 days until the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies conference, 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies', hosted at Birkbeck, London, 13-15 July! Check out our packed programme full of papers, roundtables, film screenings & guided walks, and register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Congratulations to Professor Mark Geller (UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies) for receiving ERC funding for his research project, BabPharmacy. Analysing thousands of cuneiform recipes to uncover what ancient medicine can teach us today buff.ly/hafXi7t @uclnews.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social #ERC

Delighted to share our full, finalised programme for the BIAJS 2026 Conference 'Space and place in Jewish Studies'! 13 - 15 July @ Birkbeck, London: register below >>> bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2024-confere...

2026 BIAJS Conference, Registration Details

Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | 13-15 July 2026 Registration is now open for the British an…

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A great opportunity again this year, do share with your networks, institutions, doctoral & postdoctoral students to help build UK Jewish Studies!

Anoushka Alexander-Rose@anoushka-ar.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 all UK-based PhDs and ECRs in jewish studies: apply to attend Limmud festival 2026 at a 90% discount, receive invaluable mentoring and become part of an emerging cohort! Deadline: 31st July Email phdprogramme@limmud.org for questions More info & apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

📣 all UK-based PhDs and ECRs in jewish studies: apply to attend Limmud festival 2026 at a 90% discount, receive invaluable mentoring and become part of an emerging cohort! Deadline: 31st July Email phdprogramme@limmud.org for questions More info & apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Deadline is also 22nd June!

British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏆 BIAJS PhD Studentship Call! 📜 To support the society and undertake an independent project promoting Jewish studies in the UK and Ireland £1,500 p/a for the duration of the PhD 📅 Deadline 22nd June, interviews during BIAJS 13-15 July or online bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/09/b...

Upcoming deadline - 15th June for our student essay prize!

British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🏆 BIAJS 2026 Student Essay Prize: Call for Submissions ⌛Deadline: 15 June ✒️ 2 x £400 prize for 1 outstanding undergraduate dissertation and 1 postgraduate essay by students at UK/Irish institutions on Jewish Studies, ancient through modern Info here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/13/a...

🏆 BIAJS PhD Studentship Call! 📜 To support the society and undertake an independent project promoting Jewish studies in the UK and Ireland £1,500 p/a for the duration of the PhD 📅 Deadline 22nd June, interviews during BIAJS 13-15 July or online bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/09/b...

BIAJS PhD Studentship Call

BIAJS PhD Studentship Call We invite applications for the BIAJS PhD studentship, which is now vacant. It is intended that interviews for the studentship will take place either online before or in p…

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Job (remote, fixed term), Associate Editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization www.posenlibrary.com/job-opportun...

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Explore 3,000 years of Jewish history and culture through this growing free collection of expert-curated, primary texts, art, images, and educational resources.

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📣 Registration is now open for our 2026 conference, 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies'! 🗺️ 13 - 15th July at Birkbeck, @bengidley.bsky.social www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

New Book: The Medieval Lincoln Jewry, ed. by Dean A. Irwin. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21729

Interview with Dieter Rübsamen, founder of the RI-OPAC which recently reached the threshold of 3 million entries. (For non-medievalists: the RI-OPAC is a bibliographical database for medieval history). #medievalsky mittelalter.hypotheses.org/39926#EV

3 Millionen Titel im RI OPAC / 3 million titles in the RI OPAC

Interview mit dem Begründer der bibliographischen Datenbank / Interview with the founder of the bibliographic database   Deutsche Version (English version here) Ende Sommer 2002 ging die bibliographis...

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The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is recruiting a School Partnerships Manager. The mission of this UK educational charity is to educate young people about who Jews are and the contributions they have made to society. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/sir-mar...

School Partnerships Manager | Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre | CharityJob

Apply now for School Partnerships Manager. , £38,000 - £44,000 per year, find a career with meaning today

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After Jim, my phd supervisor, passed away in 2023, it was a truly incredible amount of work that Marieke and others did to help Jim's editing projects like this one (I'm a contributor) see the light of day. Thanks, Marieke and Bruce! zondervanacademic.com/products/apo...

Syriaca.org is hosting it's third annual summer workshop on digital humanities for Syriac Studies. If you are interested in learning DH skills, our data model, and how you can be a part of the work we're doing, please consider applying for the workshop.

🏆 BIAJS 2026 Student Essay Prize: Call for Submissions ⌛Deadline: 15 June ✒️ 2 x £400 prize for 1 outstanding undergraduate dissertation and 1 postgraduate essay by students at UK/Irish institutions on Jewish Studies, ancient through modern Info here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/13/a...

Announcement – BIAJS 2026 Student Essay Prize Call for Submissions

Announcement – BIAJS 2026 Student Essay Prize Call for Submissions                                   Deadline for Submissions: 15 June 2026   On behalf of the BIAJS committee, we are pleased …

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www.jhse.org/event-detail... How Some Christianities Became anti-Jewish 18 May 26, Univ. of Cambridge Time, place TBD By the 2nd century some Christianities in Rome evinced a principled opposition to Judaism, although housed within the 2nd temple a scant century before. Why the shift? To book ⬇️

How [Some] Christianities Became anti-Jewish | JHSE

A JHSE Cambridge Jewish History Hub event

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For three months of Spotify Premium I could just buy a brand new MP3 player with 128 GB and zero ads ever, and have some left over for more CDs that no algorithm will ever hide from me, and the MP3 player will also never insert random Olivia Dean songs into my baroque playlist or sell me insurance.

Excited about the AI-BRIDGES Symposium on Open Data on 28-29 May. I will be a very big whale by then, so I am relieved in this instance for zoom option (tho I'll be sad to miss a London excuse!) www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins... (Day 1: training, Day 2: symposium; free attendance in person/online btw)

Events

The Digital Humanities Research Hub runs or hosts a range of online and in-person activities, including training workshops, research seminars, summer schools and other events

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It is striking that teaching at the speed of wordy PowerPoints becomes too much information for learning and discourages students taking notes by hand. In high school my teachers used to write on chalkboards. We'd write as they wrote in front of us, same speed. But PowerPoints race ahead faster.

Emailing today with a past president (long ago) and loyal member of BIAJS in modern Jewish film history, I am struck by how special our association is and how important cross-disciplinary ties are for a thriving Jewish studies in the UK. BIAJS conferences make such great memories.

I will be teaching a week on Scrolls fakes in one of the weeks of our new MA in Cultural Heritage, and after some research and hunting have done an update of my website's Cultural Heritage section: biblicaltoolkit.wordpress.com/cultural-her...

Cultural Heritage

Protection of Cultural Heritage Aliph Foundation: The Arck Project, virtually preserving Cultural Heritage (includes Palmyra sites): Blue Shield (US Committee of the Blue Shield): CAMEL Lab at UChi…

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@npr.org recently discussed the damage to Iranian #culturalheritage and included comments from USCBS President, Patty Gerstenblith: www.npr.org/2026/03/19/n...

Iran's cultural heritage sites are being damaged by American and Israeli strikes

The costs of the joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran are mounting in terms of civilian deaths and damage to some of Iran's most famous and beloved cultural heritage sites.

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Nominations are open now for this year's Goodwin Award, recognizing exceptional recent scholarly work in the field of classics. Review eligibility requirements here: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and submit your nomination at apply.classicalstudies.org.

Nominations are open now for this year's Cribiore Award, which recognizes outstanding translations from Ancient Greek or Latin by Society members. Review eligibility requirements: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and apply here: apply.classicalstudies.org

Deadlines for intention to submit is THIS FRIDAY 27th March !

British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🏆 The 2026 BIAJS Book Prize competition is now open! We invite submissions focused on topics relating to the ancient and medieval periods for a prize of £1,000 to be announced at our July conference See eligibility details and how to submit here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/26/c...

Whatever you do this weekend, please include reading an actual book somewhere in there. Books make great fashion statements, too. If you carry a book around instead of a phone people are bound to remember they should probably get back into reading. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year

The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides

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