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UCL Institute of Jewish Studies

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Programme of lectures, conferences, and publications from scholars around the world. @ucl @uclhjs 💻Online on Zoom with special events in person at UCL.

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Joined December 2012
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Bruno Schulz and the Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian Triangle free in-person event tonight 6pm GMT in the Masaryk room, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies,16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW
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Tonight - learn how two wars have transformed Russian and Ukrainian attitudes toward Israel and Jews. Free online lecture 6pm from David Fishman professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary New York Register for zoom link buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…
Select tickets – Kyiv-Moscow-Jerusalem: How Two Wars have Transformed Russian and Ukrainian...

Select tickets – Kyiv-Moscow-Jerusalem: How Two Wars have Transformed Russian and Ukrainian...

Kyiv-Moscow-Jerusalem: How Two Wars have Transformed Russian and Ukrainian Attitudes Toward Israel and Jews, Tue 27 Feb 2024 - Part of Ukraine Series, talk 2, in conjunction with the Institute for...

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Jewish childhood in Eastern Europe before and after the Holocaust - register for free online conference Thursday Feb 22 1-5pmGMT buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…
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Hear all about the sexual politics of Yiddish theatre in its heyday. Free Zoom lecture Wed Feb 7 6pm GMT on a Yiddish actor and a gender-bending play buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…

Select tickets – “A Piquant Curiosity”: A Yiddish Actor and the Gender-Bending Play 'Yes a Man, and...

“A Piquant Curiosity”: A Yiddish Actor and the Gender-Bending Play 'Yes a Man, and Not a Man', Wed 7 Feb 2024 - Samuel Goldenberg (1886-1945) was one of the leading dramatic stars of the internatio...

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Explore the Jewish community of Odesa tonight, free online lecture 6pm GMT addressing how Jewish life in Ukraine has been affected since the 2022 Russian invasion and the responses of members and leadership amid challenging conditions of war and refuge. buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…
Select tickets – Ukraine series 1 - Exploring a Jewish Community in Ukraine today: the case of...

Select tickets – Ukraine series 1 - Exploring a Jewish Community in Ukraine today: the case of...

Ukraine series 1 - Exploring a Jewish Community in Ukraine today: the case of Odessa, Tue 30 Jan 2024 - Based on nearly two decades of research in Odesa, Ukraine and her current research with...

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Jews have been in Serbia since the 16th century. Learn about their exotic visual and literary culture Monday Jan 22 free online 2-6pmGMT buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…
Select tickets – History of the Jews of Serbia

Select tickets – History of the Jews of Serbia

History of the Jews of Serbia, Mon 22 Jan 2024 - This conference aims to bring to the attention of the broader public the complex history, visual and literary culture of the Jews in Serbia in the...

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Delve into the world of medieval philosophy with a free online lecture on how the Bible was interpreted in the 14th century and beyond. Wed Jan 17, 6pm GMT buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…
Select tickets – King Solomon, Rabbi Akiva, and Aristotle? Joseph Ibn Kaspi's philosophical...

Select tickets – King Solomon, Rabbi Akiva, and Aristotle? Joseph Ibn Kaspi's philosophical...

King Solomon, Rabbi Akiva, and Aristotle? Joseph Ibn Kaspi's philosophical biblical commentaries., Wed 17 Jan 2024 - Joseph Ibn Kaspi, born in Provence, lived approximately between 1280 and 1345 and...

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The "Dark Side" of the Torah: life-giving Jewish text or a menace, resulting in severe punishments and death? Speaker Menahem Kister explores the latter idea in a free online lecture Wed Jan 10, register for your zoom link buytickets.at/uclinstituteof…
Select tickets – The "Dark Side" of the Torah: Second Temple Writings, Rabbinic Literature, and...

Select tickets – The "Dark Side" of the Torah: Second Temple Writings, Rabbinic Literature, and...

The "Dark Side" of the Torah: Second Temple Writings, Rabbinic Literature, and Pauline Epistles – Zoom, Wed 10 Jan 2024 - Free online lecture by Professor Menahem Kister of the Hebrew University,...

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Explore how Ashkenazi Jews integrated in the past into Arab society throughout the Middle East. Free online lecture 'The Ashkenazi Arab: The untold history of Jewish European integration in the Middle East' tomorrow, Dec 12 6pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/705612244…
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Find out about the history of the mystical 'maps of God' in an online lecture The Kabbalistic Tree, tomorrow Nov 29 6pmGMT eventbrite.co.uk/e/705570278…
The Kabbalistic Tree

The Kabbalistic Tree

Explore the 'maps of God' with leading expert on the kabbalistic tree of life, Professor J.H. Chajes

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The Polish-Jewish community and Polish Catholics - learn how they interact in the 21st century. Register now for free online lecture 6pm Tuesday Nov 21 eventbrite.co.uk/e/705556657…
Cross purposes. Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland

Cross purposes. Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland

Join us for "Cross purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland," an engaging online event

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Delve into the mysteries of Akkadian written on clay tablets from the first millenium BCE, and the comparison with stories told by Rabbis centuries later. Free online IJS lecture this Wednesday eventbrite.co.uk/e/705527390…
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Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated in 1656 for rejecting rabbinic authority yet he continued to love the Hebrew language and his Jewish identity. Discover more about his complex personality, lecture at UCL and on zoom this Thursday. eventbrite.co.uk/e/705503789…
Spinoza on Judaism, Ancient Israelites and Hebrew Studies

Spinoza on Judaism, Ancient Israelites and Hebrew Studies

Lecture examining the complex background of 17th century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza

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Jews and Muslims - can they be ‘secret sharers’, in their intersecting experiences of colonisation, Orientalism, secularisation, antisemitism, and Islamophobia? Free lecture online and in person at UCL Wednesday, registration eventbrite.co.uk/e/704905269…
The Shoah in Postcolonial Perspective

The Shoah in Postcolonial Perspective

The wartime diaries of Russian-Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum and their relationship to the idea of Jews and Muslims as 'secret sharers'

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Free online lecture Wed 25 on The Middle Eastern Origins of Kabbalah eventbrite.co.uk/e/704890475… Hear new and alternative insights about the influence of Islam, Karaism, and some pagan cults on the beginning of Kabbalah. Your zoom link will be sent after registering on Eventbrite
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This evening learn about how modern technological developments are keeping an ancient Jewish language alive, free online lecture from Carlos Yebra López 6pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/704853083…
The digital revitalization of Ladino

The digital revitalization of Ladino

The presentation discusses how Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), a severely endangered language, is being preserved digitally

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Learn about Ladino with the IJS this Wednesday: mailer.ucl.ac.uk/6T18-W7F8-3…
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Learn about Ladino with the IJS this Wednesday: mailer.ucl.ac.uk/6T18-W7F8-3…
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Wonderful evening of home cooked Lithuanian Jewish food from UCL Yiddish lecturer Sima Beeri, sample her family recipes and buy the book eventbrite.co.uk/e/627205457…
And what about the taste?

And what about the taste?

Talk and tasting of Jewish Lithuanian cookery from a new book by Sima Beeri who teaches Yiddish at UCL

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