The conference provides the opportunity for graduate students from around the world to present their research at the second Parkes Institute International Summer Graduate Seminars. The theme of the conference is cultural heritage, and there is a broad focus of papers. We are delighted to include as part of this conference a keynote talk by Dr. Erika Szívós (Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Economic and Social History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) on Monday 12 July. The programme also includes professionalisation workshops aimed at PhD students and early career researchers.

Deadline for Registration: 9 July 2021.

ONLINE OXFORD BIBLICAL HEBREW SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 

The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place from August 23-27 and August 31-September 3 2021. This year the school is being given online (via Zoom).

The cost of the school is £275 per student for 27 hours of language instruction.

The application form may be downloaded here: https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/online-oxford-biblical-hebrew-summer-school-2021/

The application closing date is Monday 26 July 2021. Places are limited.

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

The Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University is pleased to announce the fifth 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 10-11 June 2021. Applications from outside the UK will be considered. The event will share experiences of being interviewed for lectureships, discuss applying for post-doctoral research positions (including a practical application exercise), share recent experiences of University teaching of Jewish Studies during and after Covid-19, and of creating and running a research network (using the Jewish-Muslim Research Network as an example). There will be plenaries on defining anti-Semitism and academic freedom, and on what should be the priorities of Jewish Studies research funders in the future. 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 online registration, see http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/n-uk-js-partnership/

Registration closes when places are filled up or by 20 May 2021 at the latest.

June 3rd 2021, 6pm-8pm (CET)

University of Vienna/University of Gothenburg

On Zoom

The European Jewish world inhabited by Marcus Ehrenpreis was similarly caught up in kaleidoscopic trends. Haskalah and the Reform movement continued to guide many communities, oftentimes defined against an imaginary ‘Ostjudentum’. A romanticised Orientalism shaped Jewish spaces in the public urban landscape, while Jews from the Balkans, Northern Africa or the Levant as formerly Ottoman subjects, or Eastern Europe, sometimes with an affiliation to Orthodox Judaism, were simultaneously excluded from partaking in or shaping official Jewish leadership. At the same time, Zionism became a strong Jewish political movement against the backdrop of rising European antisemitism.

Viewing Marcus Ehrenpreis as an embodiment of the complexities and struggles of Jewish Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, this workshop aims to situate his role in, impact on and ideas of the communities in Sofia and Stockholm within a transnational European context. Marcus Ehrenpreis, as a Jewish religious and cultural leader, was at the forefront of negotiating the dialectics between Reform and Orthodox Judaism, between Central and Western hegemony over ‘peripheral’ communities, and between the frictions of ethnic, religious, and political minorities and their relationship to community leadership.

We will build on the spatial dimension as a window into the physical manifestation of such internal power relations. Therefore, in this workshop, Marcus Ehrenpreis becomes the entry point to understanding the preconditions, processes, and dynamics of the inscription of Jewish community politics into urban space. What role did internal discourses and differences play in shaping spaces of ‘Jewishness’ and/or Jewish difference? How did Jewish religious leaders relate to the ethnic, religious and political minorities within their communities? In what terms were those minorities constructed? How did the power relationship become apparent in the urban landscape? And can we find similarities across such disparate European capitals as Sofia and Stockholm?

This event is planned as an online workshop centering on a public group discussion. For this, we invite participants with expertise on the life and work of Marcus Ehrenpreis, as well as scholars with research interests in transnational histories, cultural transfers, community power politics, religious discourses, ethnic diversity and/or spatial analysis in relation to Jewish life in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

To spur discussion, the workshop will be started off by three expert lightning talks:

• Fani Gargova: Ehrenpreis’ Efforts in ‘Uniting’ the Diverse Jewish Community of Sofia
• Andreas Schein: A Jewish Community without Eastern European Jews? Ehrenpreis’ Sermons in Stockholm
• Maja Hultman: Ehrenpreis and Stockholm’s Orthodox Diversity – Spaces of Power, Relations and Conflicts

Please register for the workshop before May 20, 2021: https://univienna.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcuygqDguHNE0JJyzYLkjWnSWJzU1xdmt