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Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Apply now for the Moritz Steinschneider Research Prize 2027. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/23185
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Apply now for the Moritz Steinschneider Research Prize 2027
According to the call the "[t]he prize is intended for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars working toward their habilitation whose research makes an outstanding contribution to...
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Parkes PGR @toby-kunin.bsky.social, supervised by Tony Kushner, Sami Everett and Noëmie Duhaut, speaks at @gsrl.bsky.social on the emergence of an international Romani politics in post-Shoah France 🗓 14 Oct, 3pm CEST/2pm BST 📍 Campus Condorcet & Zoom 💻 Zoom link: nadia.malinovich@ephe.sorbonne.fr
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Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre @sjhcscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📚 Bring your Higher History class to explore Jewish migration to Scotland in the late 1800s and the experiences of Jewish communities, particularly in the Gorbals. This session links directly to the Migration & Empire topic. Book this session today - 🔗 in bio
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.jhse.org/event-detail... The Mendes da Costa Family in 17th-18th Cent. England Thu 15 Oct 8pm Chigwell Hainault Synagogue From 1656, freedom to worship in England led to an influx of wealthy Jews from Spain & Portugal including the prominent Mendes da Costa family In person or online Book ⬇️
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The Mendes da Costa Family in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England | JHSE
Hybrid event organised by the Essex branch
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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...
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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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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tomorrow, 6th October, is the day @thejohnrylands.bsky.social was inaugurated in 1899. The library holds many collections related to Judaism, from illuminated Haggadahs to the papers of Chief Rabbi Moses Gaster. Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/jew... #Archives #JewishHistory
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Jewish and Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library and Manchester University Library - Celebrating jewish archives
The Jewish and Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library and Manchester University Library are specialist collections held by Manchester University which […]
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This face which gazes out at us marks the beginning of Torah portion V'Zot HaBerachah (וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה). So ends the Torah portion cycle for another year. #ParashahPictures BnF Hébreu 29; Bible; 15th century; f.119r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I find it strange how often the history of Jews in Europe more broadly is treated as a niche or specialist topic, rather than being part of the main stream of European history. It’s a *choice* to leave Jewish history out of the story.
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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This! Having spent the last year working on Edward's reign, there's still a tendency to omit Jews, or only pay them lip service. Conversely, there can also be an alarming lack of engagement with England in the material that approaches the topic from the Jewish perspective. We need to have both!
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Samantha Katz Seal @samanthalkseal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have a problem in British history if an article like this can be written/published without mentioning Edward’s expulsion of Jews from England in 1290 or the coin-clipping persecutions of the 1280s. Anglo-Jewish history IS English history. If your history books don’t reflect that, rewrite them.
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week's #NewBooks: Jewish history, Jewish languages, antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies Subject Guide, featuring the cover of Institutions, ideology, and power in the Hasmonean state by Michael Economou.
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.jhse.org/event-detail... The Mendes da Costa Family in 17th-18th Cent. England Thu 15 Oct 8pm Chigwell Hainault Synagogue From 1656, freedom to worship in England led to an influx of wealthy Jews from Spain & Portugal including the prominent Mendes da Costa family In person or online Book ⬇️
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The Mendes da Costa Family in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England | JHSE
Hybrid event organised by the Essex branch
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Moadim L'simchah 🎉 Here's another of our favourite Collection Encounters for Sukkot, a trip to @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social. Find out more and read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect... #JewishHistory #LocalHistory #Archives
Quote saying “These were the kind of characters and scenes that he committed to memory... and when it was all destroyed, he said as an artist he felt he had a mission to commit memory to canvas”A newspaper called Essex Jewish News from 1999.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Publication: Jewish History 40.1–2 (2026). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/23106
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Jewish History 40.1–2 (2026)
You can now read the new volume of Jewish History 40.1–2 (2026) with much medieval content. Read it
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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Jews in the Welsh Imagination: Medieval Times to the Present | JHSE
President's conversation and lecture series
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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...
A quote saying "The Jewish story of the area is just embedded into our collection here"A London Dock workers' identity card with a picture of a man with a mustache attached.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Book Prize: The David Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/23059
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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call for papers! “Reading Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Religion and Politics: Marginalia and Manuscripts” @rorymaclellan.bsky.social and I are putting together a panel for next year’s SRS conference in London. Deadline for 200 word abstracts is tomorrow Please get in touch and repost!
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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
A group of children sat around a table with two adults all raising a glass.
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wishing all who celebrate a happy Sukkot! (Feast of the Tabernacles). This holiday's central symbol is the sukkah (depicted in this 14th century Hebrew manuscript), a temporary structure of at least three walls and a roof composed of cut branches or leaves.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sukkot 2026 begins at sundown on 25th September. Here is a depiction of a Sukkah from 14th century Italy, at the end of the Sukkot liturgy. BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.316v @blmedieval.bsky.social
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: bit.ly/47fu2b0
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The British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new Fellowships
The British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences.
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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call for Papers: LESSONS & LEGACIES Europe Decentering the Holocaust International Conference on the Holocaust hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-... 1-5 November 2027 (Monday-Friday) Bucharest, Romania Submission Deadline: 14 December 2026
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From our collections, a photograph of German-Jewish soldiers marking Yom Kippur in Sedan, France, on the Western Front in 1915.
Early 20th-century group portrait of uniformed soldiers on stone steps outside a building, with five boys in period civilian clothing and hats posed in front, all facing the camera with formal, serious expressions.
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Incredible semester of events from @parkesinstitute.bsky.social as usual - don’t miss out!
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yom Kippur 2026 begins at sunset on 20th September. Here is the Initial-word panel at the beginning of Kol Nidrei (All vows). Bodleian Library MS Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays; Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, volume 3); 1320-1330 CE; f.100v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seasonal list of Yiddish greetings by Jonah Boyarin in @forward.com. forward.com/yiddish-worl...
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How to greet people in Yiddish on the Jewish holidays
Learn how to wish someone a Happy New Year and beyond with this Yiddish language guide
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ochjs.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LBI London is delighted to share news of a new collaborative Reading and Research Group, "Liberalism in Exile," run by the ILCS at the University of London and the Academic Working Group of the LBI in Germany. Find out more: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.jhse.org/event-detail... Contemporary Antisemitism: Historical Lessons Tue 22 Sept Wiener Holocaust Library in person or online JHSE Pres Prof Gavin Schaffer is joined by Professors Miri Rubin & Tony Kushner to discuss present-day and historical antisemitism in Britain. Book your place ⬇️
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JHSE Roundtable Discussion – Contemporary Antisemitism: Historical Lessons | JHSE
Hybrid event - join in person or online
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BISA at Birkbeck @bisa-bkk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Join us on 6 Oct for a panel discussion on ‘The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now’ with Nadia Valman, Liam Liburd (@liamliburd.bsky.social) and Joseph Finlay (@josephfinlay.bsky.social). Book here: bit.ly/4xoQuJC
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hybrids around the initial-word of Torah Portion Ha'azinu (הַאֲזִינוּ) #parashahpictures BL Add 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; France, N; f.111v @blmedieval.bsky.social
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to invite you to another free online screening from our LBI Film Club, starting Thursday 24 September 2026. Find out more: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-... #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #JewishHistory #LBILondon #SigmundFreud
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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With all of the emphasis on the Bayeux Tapestry this week, and with Rosh Hashanah about to start, it's reflecting that the world of William the Conqueror wasn't just a Christian one. The centuries before prior to 1066 had seen Jewish communities gradually expand North through Germany and France. 1/
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This 18th-century shofar is from @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social. The engraving reads “Blow the horn on the new moon, at the beginning of the month for our day of festival; or it is a statute for Israel, a decree of the God of Jacob” 📷 Engraved Shofar • Jewish Museum London
A shofar horn with intricate engraving including Hebrew.
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Magdalen Libraries & Archives @magdlibandarch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As part of the annual Oxford Open Doors weekend, our Old Library will be open today from 11am to 3pm. Take a look at this historic space, where there's been a library for over 500 years, and take a good sniff of that old-book-smell. There's also a small exhibition on animals in special collections.
Oxford Preservation Trust "Open Doors" poster over a historic library interior with tall wooden shelves of bound volumes and a Gothic arched window; a diagonal white banner reads OPEN 11AM–3PM and a red square shows the trust logo and "Open Doors."
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
L'shanah tovah u'metukah! To mark the Jewish New Year, we're sharing a piece of nineteenth-century commercial print culture: an advertising card issued by the French chocolate manufacturer Chocolat Poulain, from the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. Wishing our community a peaceful, healthy New Year.
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Holocaust Research Consultancy @holocaust-rc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Apply for the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe's Scoping Grants today to hire the HRC to work with your heritage collections and provide suggestions for projects, like exhibitions or events, and give guidance on preservation of materials and collections! rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
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Scoping Grant - Rothschild
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Most read in the Journal of Jewish Studies: 'The exegetical function of the Qurʾān in the Christian-Arabic Pentateuch' by Tareq Moqbel . Explores the Qurʾān’s potential to interpret the Bible and as a resource for Judaism and Christianity: bit.ly/JJS-Moqbel @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
Graphic for The Journal of Jewish Studies: White text on a dark grey background reads 'The leading forum in the world for new research in Jewish history, literature, and culture from biblical times to the present day'. Journal of Jewish Studies cover sits to the right, the cover is also dark grey with white overlaid text for the journal's title, 'of' is in a contrasting golden yellow. Journal of Jewish Studies logo also in a golden yellow colour sits in the bottom right. Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies logo and the Liverpool University Press logo sit in the bottom left corner. Background features a handwritten Hebrew script.
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Leo Baeck Institute London is seeking an experienced Librarian & Archivist to take responsibility for the development, organisation and accessibility of its specialist library and archival collections. More info and how to apply: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies/li...
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Job Vacancy: Librarian & Archivist | Leo Baeck Institute London
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Rosh Hashanah in 2026 begins at sundown on 11th September. BL Harley MS 5794; Maḥzor, a service-book for the New Year's feast according to the German rite; 1614 CE; Germany; f.70v @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our Co-Directors were delighted to attend today's preview of the new Holocaust Memorial & Learning Centre and hear powerful speeches by Ed Balls, Lord Pickles , Dr Rob Williams, Martin Winstone and Anita Peleg, reinforcing the importance of the site for learning and remembrance 🔗 buff.ly/VJkQoAL
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Spades in the ground for Holocaust Memorial Centre before Burnham leaves Downing Street, pledges Ed Balls - The Jewish Chronicle
‘This is a statement of intent,’ said the ITV presenter and co-chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation at the launch of a new exhibition on what Britain knew about the Shoah at the time
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/vernon-manus... The Vernon manuscript looks at the representation of Jews 100 yrs after they were expelled from England & helps us understand the symbolic importance of Jews in medieval Christian popular religion #medievalsky #Medievalstudies @cam.ac.uk
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The 'Vernon Manuscript' and the Image of the Jew in Late Medieval England
This video explores some of the images of Jews and Judaism in the ‘Vernon manuscript’, an important and extensive record of popular culture and belief from late fourteenth-century England. The Vernon ...
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On 5 September 1791, Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer was born near Berlin into one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Prussia. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/09... Image: Wiki
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BISA at Birkbeck @bisa-bkk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BISA on demand: catch up with the Birkbeck Institute for Antisemitism's events this summer! You can find a searchable archive of more than 100 recordings from 2010 to the present here on our website: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/resources/po...
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yesterday, Sunday 6 September, marked the beginning of AEPJ (The European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage) European Days of Jewish Culture. You can find out more about all the activities here: old.jewisheritage.org/edjc/europea...
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European Days of Jewish Culture 2026: LOVE - European Jewish Heritage
The fundamental objective of the European Days of Jewish Culture is to highlight the diversity and richness of Judaism and its local, regional and national historical importance, with the firm intention of promoting dialogue, recognition and exchange through conferences, concerts, performances, guided tours and other activities, which take place simultaneously throughout the continent.
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New Book: Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Jewish Visual Culture and Art. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22632
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
CFP: Turning the Image Around: Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, Satire, and Cultural Resistance across the Ages (International Research Workshop). #jewishstudies #medievalsky  mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22664
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CFP: Turning the Image Around: Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, Satire, and Cultural Resistance across the Ages (International Research Workshop)
Department of the Arts and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 14 December 2026. Deadline: Submission deadline: 11 October 2026 The Department of the Art...
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