Annual ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies, 7^th – 19^th August 2022

The annual ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies. Scheduled for Sunday, August 7, through Friday, August 19, 2022, is now seeking Scholars-in-Residence for an intensive two-week workshop-based curriculum development program in interdisciplinary critical contemporary antisemitism studies. The program is dedicated to the development of antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline.

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ISGAP at Cambridge: Global Antisemitism,‎ ‎A Crisis of Modernity Revisited. The conference is open to scholars, intellectuals, and policy experts, engaged in the study of contemporary antisemitism globally, and related topics, regardless of school of thought, scientific approach, academic discipline or ideological view.

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ONLINE OXFORD BIBLICAL HEBREW SUMMER SCHOOL 2022

The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place from August 30 – September 9, 2022. This year the school is being given online (via Zoom).

The school offers nine days of intensive teaching in Biblical Hebrew. Each weekday there will be three hours of teaching, delivered in two separate 90-minute sessions, between 11.30-15.30 (UK time).

The OBHSS corresponds to two full terms of intensive teaching for a full-time university student. It is open to students with or without experience in the language. For the former, it offers an opportunity to review and consolidate what they have previously learnt. For the latter, it will provide a strong foundation from which to begin formalized or private study of Biblical Hebrew.

The cost of the school is £280 per student for 27 hours of language instruction.

The application form may be downloaded here:  https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/oxford-biblical-hebrew-summer-school-2022/

The application closing date is Monday 25 July 2022. Places are limited.

For queries and further information, please contact Dr Stephen L. Herring at stephen.herring@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research training event in Jewish Studies for PhDs and Early Career Researchers, University of Manchester, 13-14 June 2022 (online via zoom)

The Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University is pleased to announce the sixth doctoral and early career research training event of the Northern UK and Dublin Jewish Studies Partnership. Advanced PhD students and post-doctoral researchers from Partnership institutions and other UK Universities can apply to participate in a range of online sessions taking place on 13-14 June 2022. Applications from outside the UK will be considered. The event will include sessions on interviewing for lectureships from an interviewer’s point of view, academics working in university/research administration, the role of research question/methodology in publications and funding applications, as well as current trends in the academic treatment of the Jewish Muslim Encounter and Filmic Representations of Jews in Post-1990s Europe. There will also be an event engaging with PGR/ECR researchers in Ukraine. Participants will be able to meet experienced staff for informal, one-to-one advice on any aspect of their research, career planning or publication priorities. For programme and further information, see http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/n-uk-js-partnership/.

Register for this free event by submitting the online form https://forms.office.com/r/6ecGGvH0C7 by 20 May 2022.

14^th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries, University of Antwerp,

12 May 2022

Registration (free) via: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/ijs/lectures-and-conferences/conferences/contact-day/

Program

Morning sessions: room E.207, Grote Kauwenberg 2, 2000 Antwerp

9:30                 Welcome and introduction (Vivian Liska, Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden
                        Daelen)

9:45 – 10:45   Panel 1 Jews In Early Modern Amsterdam (Chair: Jessica Roitman)

• Samantha Sint-Nicolaas: Policing Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam
• Rachel Kupferman: Kehilot Moshe: The Illustrated Bibles of 1720s Amsterdam

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Panel 2 Jewish Perceptions and Identities (Chair: Veerle Vanden Daelen)

• Aalt Smienk: Framing Jews in Dutch Newspapers Between 1890-1910
• Senske de Vries: Jewish Identity: A Never-Ending Quest

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch with book presentation by Daniël Metz

Afternoon sessions: room C.102, Grote Kauwenberg 2, 2000 Antwerp

13:30 – 15:00 Panel 3 Jews and Economy in the Low Countries (Chair: Karin Hofmeester)

• Huibert Schijf: Jewish Bankers: From Germany to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels and Paris
• Marleen van den Berg & Meta Huijsmans: Typical Trade: Exploring Trade Networks in Pre-War Rotterdam and Zwolle
• Joris Kok: Jews, Diamonds, and Occupational Mobility: The Amsterdam Diamond Industry, 1873-1940

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 17:15 Panel 4 Jewish Life Stories (1900-1945) (Chair: Barbara Dickschen)

• Adina Babeş -Fruchter: The Jewish Refugees in Brussels: A Socio-Demographic Portrait 
• Jan Dewilde: Jewish Musicians and Composers at the Antwerp Conservatoire During the Interwar Period and the Second World War
• Marc Verschooris: Martha’s Labyrinth

17:15 – 17:30  Concluding remarks (Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen)

Informal dinner

Fifth International Spring School in Jewish Studies – Home, Belonging and Exile: Sepharad and Beyond 

(Madrid and Toledo, May 27 – June 3 2022)

The Hebrew Bible begins with the creation of the whole world, but quite quickly zooms into the history of one family and consequently one people. Abraham, the first Patriarch and the founder of the family and of the nation, is born in Haran, but is commanded to move on to what will shortly become the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, later Palestine. But the family does not stop there: it moves to Egypt, then (quite miraculously) back to its original land from years gone by, and then exiled again to Persia and Babylon, then they return again, and afterwards exiled again by the Romans (having a Jewish Hellenistic branch in Egypt as well), and spreading almost all around the world, East and West. During hundreds of years Jews found equilibrium between moving and staying while longing (in principle or in practice) to another place, their promised land. Jews became what the great historian Simon Dubnow, who was murdered by the Nazis in Riga at the age of 81, called ʿamʿolam a nation in/of the world. During their long lasting history, Jews both belonged to their homes at the places where they lived, sometimes for hundreds of years, but almost always expelled or otherwise forced to leave at some point, yet kept some kind of cultural and social unity. They created a flourishing religious and secular culture, and the Bible (and also their other books) was for them a portatives Vaterland (‘portable homeland’), as the poet Heinrich Heine punned.

In the Madrid 2022 International Spring School in Jewish Studies, scholars and students from various places of Jewish belonging will explore the diverse historical questions of exile, belonging and home. We aim at learning about new realms of the Jewish existence and their mutual relationship.

The “Fifth International Spring School in Jewish Studies – Home, Belonging and Exile: Sepharad and Beyond,” will take place in Madrid, with field trips to Toledo and El Escorial, and 30 hours of instruction by scholars in Jewish Studies from the Netherlands, Israel, Spain, United Kingdom, and France. The School is jointly organized by the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam, The Open University of Israel, King’s College London, Jewish Cultures Across Mediterranean Europe  (J-Med project) CSIC-UCM, and the Sephardic Museum, Toledo.

Conveners: Pablo Torijano, Bart Wallet, Avriel Bar-Levav, Andrea Schatz, Irene Zwiep, and Javier Castaño.

More information and programme at https://jmed.eu/fifth-international-spring-school-in-jewish-studies/