Acording to their call, "[t]he Center for Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and Arts at Rice University is seeking to hire the Kraft Family Professor of Jewish Studies, a full-time senior lev...

An original Aramaic-language seder ushpizata, as a parallel to the patriarchal ushpizin, to invite matriarchal figures from history. While other "ushpizot" or "ushpizata" texts have been written befor...

Dawn Waterman on Yiddish New Year postcards

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.

Ruth Danson & friends in the bluebell woods, 1939 • AJR Refugee Voices Archive

The Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick is an archive covering social, economic and political history. Archive Description Founded in […]

The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library

A giant of industry, welfare and charity knighted by the Queen.

Collection Encounter: Liverpool Record Office

You can now list to this podcast about "Charlemagne and the Jewish Communities of the Latin West" with Loraine Enlow and Pilar Rivett. Listen to it

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

British Jews in the First World War – We Were There Too is a digital project created to capture, save and share […]

This year we're once again taking part in the fantastic Open House Festival. We’ll be open on Tuesday 15th September when visitors can sign up for guided tours of our archive stores, see our current…

Internment Portrait • AJR Refugee Voices

Collection Encounter: The London Archives

Based in London, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest collection of original archival material on pre-war Jewish life, the Nazi era and the Holocaust.