Jewish Historical Society of England

Consider applying to the Conference Grant Programme of the European Association of Jewish Studies - details below.

Deadline 26 March 2026

The Yiddish Yentl — Jewish Renaissance Join us for a theatrical outing to the show that sold-out Sydney Opera House, including pre- and post-show discussions with the director, members of the cast and special guests…

Looking forward to speaking on a Yiddish theatre panel (w/ Isaac Bashevis Singer’s granddaughter) hosted by Jewish Renaissance prior to the 15 March performance of ‘Yentl’ by the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre at the Marylebone Theatre.
@artshumsucl.bsky.social

www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events/the-y...

📢 Call for papers: Holocaust Heritage in the 21st century 📅 7-8 September 2026 📍 Location: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online, University of Cambridge ⏳ Deadline: 1 May 2026… | ... 📢 Call for papers: Holocaust Heritage in the 21st century 📅 7-8 September 2026 📍 Location: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online, University of Cambridge ⏳ Deadline: 1 May 2026 Th...

📢 Call for papers: Holocaust Heritage in the 21st century 📅 7-8 September 2026 📍 Location: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online, University of Cambridge ⏳ Deadline: 1 May 2026 tinyurl.com/2zdebm6r

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Ki Tisa (כִּי תִשָּׂא) with this hybrid and castle.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.53r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

JHSE Awards Report 2024/2025 It is pleasing to see the impact of last year’s award winners, including, amongst many outstanding projects, the publication of Nudrat Afza’s powerful photographs of Bradford Jewry, Kehillah, which ha...

See the impact of last year’s JHSE award winners, including, amongst many outstanding projects:
💥Nudrat Afza’s powerful photographs of #Bradford Jewry
💥Kehillah, featured at Bradford’s City of Culture celebrations
💥Historic Towns Trust map of Jewish #Ipswich
& more!

www.jhse.org/post/jhse-aw...

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here is the decorated initial-word panel with birds and hybrids, at the beginning of the book of Esther
#Purim
Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 3; Pentateuch with Onkelos, Five Scrolls and Haftarot; 13th century; f.233r @BDLSS

Lunchtime Talk: In the Shadow of the Tower -The Jews of Medieval London Join Dr Rory MacLellan to explore the story of the Jews of medieval London, their lives, their trials, and their expulsion.

Tickets going fast for my talk at The London Archives on the Jews of medieval London and their role in the 1267 siege of the Tower.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-...

Purim begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here are some people in the margins celebrating Purim.
#Purim
BL Add MS 26968; 'Forli Sidur'; 1383 CE; Italy; f.209v

The Bodleian #Library bodleian.ox.ac.uk (@ox.ac.uk)
holds what is regarded as the best collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world. Many are fully digitised!

📕 Find out more ⬇️ 📕

digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...

Ancient manuscript page showing a circular astronomical diagram with concentric rings and inscriptions. A rotating arm points outwards.

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. It is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment...

New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

New edition of the Ferrara bible sheds light on research into Jews who fled Spain and lived in #16thCentury Italy

Sephardi Voices UK - hiddentreasurenew Sephardi Voices UK is a video and image archive held in the British Library. Its collection of interviews covers topics around family […]

Sephardi Voices UK is a collection, accessed through @britishlibrary.bsky.social, that's focused on Middle Eastern Jewry, and Holocaust testimonies.

Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/sep...

#JewishHistory #Archives

CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

"The Winchester TheWinchesterGallery Gallery University of Southampton BERNAT KLEIN: COLOUR AND CONTEXTS 'Jews in Suits: Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938' Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum & 'Woven Colour, Worn Identity: Beyond Grey, Rethinking Men's Colour' Bruce Montgomery, chaired by Shaum Cole Thursday 5th March 2-3.30p Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art and online via Teams"

Ahead of The Winchester Gallery’s Bernat Klein exhibition (20 Apr–30 May), join the Colour & Contexts seminar!
Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum & Bruce Montgomery explore men’s dress, identity & colour.

📌 5 March 2026, 2–3.30pm, Lecture Theatre A + Teams.

@unisouthampton.bsky.social

The beginning of Torah portion Tetsaveh (תְּצַוֶּה) is marked by this elaborate design.
#ParashahPictures
BnF Hébreu 29; Bible; 15th century; f.56v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Jewish Worlds and Words in Medieval England | British Library Rare manuscripts can give an insight into the Jewish population and presence in medieval England, and some of the most remarkable and important of all have

There’s still time to book for ‘Jewish Worlds and Words in Medieval England’! On Mon Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and I will be at the British Library, talking about the Jews of Medieval England, Christian knowledge of Hebrew and the world of medieval Anglo-Jewry. Do join us events.bl.uk/events/jewis...

📣CANCELLED: today’s NGG Book Talk with Elizabeth Imber (24 Feb, 16:00 UK). We’ll reschedule ASAP – watch this space for the new date + Zoom info.

CODICUM - News and Events We are hiring: Doctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies

www.codicum.eu/news-and-eve...

Tuomas Heikkilä is hiring a 4-year fully funded PhD in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of Helsinki within the ERC Synergy Project CODICUM. Interested in medieval studies, philology, history, art history, etc!

NGG Book Talk 📚 Join us with Elizabeth E. Imber for a talk and Q&A on her latest book, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism".

🗓 Tue 24 Feb 2026
🕓 16:00 (UK time)
💻 Online (Zoom)
📩 DM us for the link or email: jhse.ngg@gmail.com
(or check our newsletter)

New Book by Alec Mishory and Ilil Arbel: Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Jewish Visual Culture and Art.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20576

I was very excited ordering this up yesterday! Obviously, I then had to get the Jewish receipt rolls out where the serious excitement is to be found!

Deadline to apply is this Friday!

We're now on @jisc.bsky.social Archives Hub 🎉 Archives Hub is a way to discover thousands of the UK's archive collections. Our page is here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/theme...

📷 Hari Jonkers, Archivist at Holocaust Centre North, with an item from their collection • Hidden Treasures/Drew Forsyth

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah Portion Terumah (תרומה) with an owl.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible', 1476 CE, La Coruña, Spain; f.49r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Step into the vibrant world of London’s East End through the Yiddish press. From 1884 to 1954, local writers captured immigrant life in vivid urban sketches that are deeply moving. On March 8, join us as we bring these drawings to life: shorturl.at/c6wYn

#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Yiddish

Genizah Fragment (Or.1080 J23): a late 12th century love letter.

Perahya is in Cairo and misses his wife, Umm Thana: “Of late my yearning has become so strong that I am not able to bear it anymore." He invites her to join him, promising she can choose her own carpets. 🤔

https://loom.ly/h2W1pMI

Happy 200th birthday to UCL, the first English university to admit Jews. Hebrew and Jewish Studies have been taught at UCL since day one. #UCL200

Learn more about the the history of @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social

Peter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe hands - The Jewish Chronicle The Wiener Library has just acquired 681 drawings, poems and letters by Kien, whose work has been recovered after an 80-year journey

"When the young artist Peter Kien was about to be deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto, he found a secret trapdoor to immortality, and it took the form of a nondescript brown suitcase."

@jewishchron.bsky.social

Prepping my genocide course and it's really sad to reflect on the fact that the United States Army was the first in the world to codify the law of war and prohibit crimes against civilians.

It formed the basis for the later Hague and Geneva Conventions.

And it was drafted by a Jewish immigrant.

Some recent photos of school students learning about Scotland's incredible Jewish history.

We offer visits to primary and secondary groups that support learning on Judaism, Jewish immigration to Scotland, and the Holocaust era.

🎟️ Book your class visit today!
🔗 Link in our bio.