British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference Call for Proposals Conference Theme: “Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies” Dates: 28th to 30th June, 2027 Venue…

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 ...

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…

British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026

Starting in the 1980s, Orthodox female scholars have adopted and adapted various genres to discuss the intricacies of Jewish tradition from halakhic perspectives. Earlier precedents of women writin...

Combining historical insight with guided listening, this event presents the rediscovery of suppressed symphonic heritage through the Reawakening Suppressed Music project and offers the opportunity to ...

Kate Rosenblatt asks what forms of illiberalism were central to American Jews in the mid-twentieth century

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Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language

UCL became the first university in England to admit Jews when it was founded in 1826. Both Hebrew language and Jewish Studies have been taught at UCL since day one.