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Read more at: CFP: Workshop on Israeli Belonging

CFP: Workshop on Israeli Belonging

12 January 2015

Call for papers The Politics of Belonging and Departure: A workshop on the parameters of Israel as ‘home’ (Joint SOAS-UCL collaboration with support of the EAIS. To be held on Saturday 16.5.2015 at SOAS, University of London) In the last few years, emigration from Israel has drawn particular attention in different...


Read more at: Cinema Israel 2014-2015

Cinema Israel 2014-2015

7 November 2014

Cinema Israel 2014-2015: Religion and Cinema in Israel Michaelmas, 2014 Screenings are on alternate Tuesdays during term time at 16:30 in basement room L1, FAMES. Next scheduled meetings: 11 Nov, 25 Nov click for scheduled films and descriptions


Read more at: University of Cambridge on EAJS 2014, Paris

University of Cambridge on EAJS 2014, Paris

27 July 2014

Cambridge scholars, mostly members of the Forum, took active part in the EAJS Congress 2014. They delivered papers, chaired panels and sessions, helped with organizing the panels, and participated in various congress events. The keynote lecture "The Reception of Biblical Hebrew in the Middle Ages" was given by Geoffrey...


Read more at: Your new mailing list: ucam-jewish-studies

Your new mailing list: ucam-jewish-studies

12 June 2014

The web page for users of the mailing list is: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-jewish-studies There is also an email-based interface for users of your list; you can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word 'help' as subject or in the body, to: ucam-jewish-studies-request@lists.cam.ac.uk


Read more at: May Update of Digital Collections

May Update of Digital Collections

29 May 2014

Five hundred new fragments have been added to our online Genizah collection. Among them are copies of the only known Medieval Hebrew poem by a woman ( Mosseri VIII.202.2 and T-S NS 143.46 ), a 10th century letter which is believed to be documentary proof of the existence of Khazar Jews in Kiev ( T-S 12.122 ) and a court...


Read more at: Woolf Institute e-Courses in Jewish Studies

Woolf Institute e-Courses in Jewish Studies

28 February 2014

In collaboration with the American University in Washington, Woolf Institute offers Bridging the Great Divide: the Jewish-Muslim Encounter , a 15-week course which explores the history, culture and theology of Muslims and Jews, reflecting both on similarities and differences as well as the major challenges. The Woolf...


Read more at: February Update of Digital Collections

February Update of Digital Collections

28 February 2014

February Update We are releasing nearly five hundred additional fragments in our Cairo Genizah Collection , bringing the total number online to over sixteen thousand. Of particular interest is T-S 6J7.3 , a letter from a man to his father, probably written after King Louis IX's Crusade was launched against Egypt. The...


Read more at: January Update of Digital Collections
January Update of Digital Collections

January Update of Digital Collections

30 January 2014

Two Hebrew items are included in this update. The first was something of a bestseller among fourteenth and fifteenth-century Jewish doctors. Nathan ben Joel Falaquera's compendium of medical knowledge, Balm for the Body , aimed to condense the medical knowledge of the ancient and Islamic worlds and present it in an easily...


Read more at: Dr Macintosh honoured with Festschrift

Dr Macintosh honoured with Festschrift

20 January 2014

Dr Andrew Macintosh, Fellow and former Dean of St John’s College, was presented with a Festschrift at a dinner in the Wordsworth Room on Friday 10 January. The Festschrift, entitled Leshon Limmudim , includes over twenty essays by Dr Macintosh’s former students and colleagues covering various aspects of classical Hebrew...