We are delighted to announce that applications for our Michaelmas Term 2026 language classes with the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages are now open! For more information visit the OSRJL page on our website: www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #languagelearning #oxford

#Event | International conference on Mixed Marriages organized as part of the Jewish Country Houses & their Worlds project @rug.nl | June 28-30, 2027 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... @niodamsterdam.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk #jewishstudies #Jtwitter Deadline: October 31, 2026

#TishabeAv in the synagogue at the Springweg, #Utrecht, ca. 1925. Photograph of a painting by J.P.C. Grolman (JCK).

A couple of ‘Jew’s streets’ explored in the past few months: from the medieval ones in the cities of #Leuven and #London to a road near the small provincial town of #Hardenberg, which acquired the name after the establishment of a cemetery nearby in the late eigtheenth century.

#Event | BIAJS Annual Conference 2026 on Space and Place | July 13–15, 2026 | London | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... @biajs.bsky.social #jewishstudies #Jtwitter #Conference

CfP 📢🏰 ‘“Mixed” Marriages? Debates and Discourses around Endogamy and Exogamy in Jewish History (c. 1850-1950)’ convened by Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social, and me as part of Jewish Country Houses & their Worlds: jch.web.ox.ac.uk/mixedmarriages. Deadline: 31 October 2026.

Geïnteresseerden in joodse stadsgeschiedenis: wees welkom op 9 juli bij de afsluiting van het buurtproject over Amsterdam-Oost van De Joodse Stad: www.uva.nl/shared-conte....

Ontdek de Joodse geschiedenis van de Transvaalbuurt

De Joodse Stad (een samenwerking tussen het Joods Cultureel Kwartier, de gemeente Amsterdam en de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam) sluit haar buurtproject over Ams...

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Now published: my contribution to ‘Geschichte(n) der deutsch-jüdischen Diaspora,’ an initiative of the @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social and the Leo Baeck Institutes: diaspora.jewish-history-online.net/article/van-....

Site of Transmigration and Long-time Diasporic Centre: The Netherlands as a Home to German-speaking Jews

As a neighbouring country with a reputation of tolerance, the Netherlands was seen as an Einwanderungsland (country of immigration) for tens of thousands of German-speaking Jews during the 1930s. Esti...

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Longlist bekend Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2026

27 JUNI 2026<br /><br />De longlist met tien genomineerden voor de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2026 is vandaag bekendgemaakt in dagblad Trouw. De prijs bekroont historische…

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#Chance | Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School 2026 | intensive online teaching via Zoom | August 24–28 & September 1–4, 2026 | Details: jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Deadline: July 10, 2026

My book is out! 🥳 Excited that ‘The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940’ has been published in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social’s Series in Jewish Studies: brill.com/display/titl.... @dgb-history.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

Congratulations to @sbvanderveen.bsky.social for the publication of "The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition"! 🎊 This book offers the first systematic analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jewish members of the Dutch elites. Check it out here 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

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Dutch Sephardic country houses on TV

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*Job alert* Wij zoeken een gedreven postdoc onderzoeker voor een biografie van de Amsterdams-Joodse notaris Arnold van den Bergh (1886-1950). Houd je van gedegen archiefonderzoek en goed schrijven? Solliciteer! werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...

Vacature — Postdoc Onderzoeker Biografie Joodse notaris Arnold van den Bergh

<p>Ben jij een enthousiast en gedreven onderzoeker met een passie voor moderne Joodse geschiedenis? Houd je ervan de archieven in te duiken om op basis daarvan een mooi biografisch portret te schrijve...

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Challenging Conversations: Academic Jewish Studies

In this recorded conversation to mark 25 years since the establishment of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, Dr Ruchama Johnston-Bloom, Academic Jewish Studies Grant Manager at Rothschild Found...

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In ‘De Joodse wereld’ #EO @npostart.bsky.social mocht ik meer vertellen over de interessante geschiedenis van Portugese buitenplaatsen langs de rivier de Vecht. De reportage is terug te kijken via: npo.nl/start/afspel... (vanaf 10:12).

Preparation of matzot for #Pesach, bread factory De Haan at the Valkenburgerstraat, Amsterdam, 1932. @stadsarchief.bsky.social

#Event | The University of Warsaw invites applications for its Warsaw Ulpan – Hebrew Summer Course, an intensive two-week program for learning Hebrew and deeper insights into polish-Jewish cultural heritage | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Deadline for applications: April 26, 2026

Job alert 2: binnen het NWA-project Traumascapes zoeken wij een gedreven erfgoedprofessional om het #Joods erfgoed in Nederland een forse stap verder te brengen. Heb je passie voor erfgoed en houd je van creatief en visionair denken? Meer info: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/co.... Please share! 🕍📢

Job alert: wij zoeken een gedreven onderzoeker met passie voor Joodse geschiedenis en erfgoed voor een PhD-project naar de omgang met #Joods erfgoed in Nederland sinds 1945, binnen het NWA-project Traumascapes: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr.... Spread the word! 🕍📢

I'm happy to present here the new special issue of Studia Rosenthaliana on the early modern rabbis of Amsterdam. On how a new model of urban rabbinate was created. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Posen library fellowships! www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship?f...

Fellowship

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.

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Great opportunity for early career professionals in Jewish heritage and graduate students: Jewish Heritage Seminar, 23-28 August 2026. rothschildfoundation.eu/training/ams...

In Amsterdam on 13 April? Join us for what promises to be a very interesting evening on the occasion of Laura Hobson Faure’s new book ‘Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust’: uva.nl/en/shared-cont…. @bartwallet.bsky.social

Consider applying to the Conference Grant Programme of the European Association of Jewish Studies - details below. Deadline 26 March 2026

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Quick reminder: apply for up to £ 9,500 for an academic event in any field pertaining to Jewish Studies New feature: Student Members of the European Association for Jewish Studies now can apply for funding for Graduate Conference! Check out the details in the link below.

Op uitnodiging van De Nieuwe Kerk verzorg ik op 28 maart aanstaande een lezing getiteld ‘Nieuwe Mokumse medienes: Joodse Amsterdammers en de “trek naar buiten”’ – over het buitenleven van welgestelde Joodse #Amsterdammers door de eeuwen heen. Meer info: www.nieuwekerk.nl/activiteiten....

Vooroorlogse Joodse bevolking in Nederland - De Nieuwe Kerk

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Synagogues of #Paris Part III: The neighbourhood of #Belleville has a layered Jewish history. The stories of German, Eastern European, Maghrebi, and other Jews are still or newly visible in the urban landscape, including in synagogue buildings used by different groups over time.

Synagogues of #Paris Part II: Le #Marais houses a variety of synagogues with intriguing histories, such as L’Oratoire Roger Fleischman (1931), the Art Nouveau-style Pavée Synagogue (1914), Synagogue Charles-Liché (1963) at Place des Vosges, and Synagogue des Tournelles (1876).

A ‘Poeriemkrant’ ( or #Purim newspaper), a satirical genre of single-sheet prints, from nineteenth-century Amsterdam. Broadsides collection of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana.

🗓️ March 20: #nodegoat workshop at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social organised by Merel Blok and Eva Seuntjes. ℹ️ iisg.amsterdam/nl/workshopn...