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Join us in Leeds as BIAJS is hosted by our 2026-27 president: HB/OT scholar Johanna Stiebert! BIAJS conferences represent all time periods, numerous disciplines, smaller but international. A very warm, welcoming event for students and ECRs (bursaries available). Medievalists itinerary: BIAJS+IMC?👍

#Chance | Study programme: MA Jewish Studies (Middle Eastern Studies). One year in Amsterdam, taught in English, open to students from abroad | 🔗 Details: www.uva.nl/shared-conte... @UvA_Amsterdam @SBvanderVeen #jewishstudies #Jewsky #Amsterdam

Prize for work by Early Career scholars in Jewish studies, due October 31. @lbilondon.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosami...

Next Tuesday, 13 Oct, 6pm: the annual Howard Rein Lecture. Dr Jane Brooks (@manchester.ac.uk) on the refugee women who fled Nazi Europe and became nurses in Britain, despite hospital resistance and antisemitism. Avenue Campus & Zoom. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jewish-ref...

For any BIAJS colleagues based in Berlin, make sure to attend this symposium next week featuring scholars from @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @sspatleeds.bsky.social @campionhall.bsky.social

📕 🏆 Call for submissions: the 2027 BIAJS Book Prize! Inviting applications from books in any area of academic Jewish Studies related to early modern through contemporary period across all disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts and Law). EOI deadline is 15 Jan: biajs.co.uk/2026/10/06/c...

Members tickets for Bayeux Tapestry thru 03/2027 have sold out now this evening. Booking opened at noon. Are more tickets released for public on 21 Oct or is that it? And why did this experience feel like booking a DVSA driving test (where everything is booked up by bots making 20 week waits).

📢 EXTENDED DEADLINE — XXII LAJSA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2027 📅 New deadline: October 15, 2026 📍 Quito, Ecuador 📆 July 7–9, 2027 For full participation guidelines and submission instructions, visit: lajsa.org/cfp-lajsa-2027/

Associate or Full Professor of Sephardic Studies at NYU Deadline: 15 December. #academicjobs #jewishstudies apply.interfolio.com/194801

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AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for PhD students in Jewish Studies, applications due November 2. associationforjewishstudies.org/professional...

A great series of events coming up from @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, including: 'German, Jewish, British? Histories of Exile and Emigration' by Jan Rüger @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, 4th November 6.30-8pm in person, register here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/german...

🚨CFP: BIAJS Annual Conference at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027 Submit proposals on the theme "Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies” by 1 December! biajs.co.uk/2026/09/09/c...

FELLOWSHIP OPEN: Yosef Wosk Visiting Fellowship in Hebraica and Judaica This provides support for research in the Hebraica and Judaica collections of the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Deadline: 30 September 2026. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Check out the full thread from this year’s BIAJS conference - we can’t wait til 2027 already! 📜

Calling doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in UK Jewish studies - one week is left to apply for this great chance to attend Limmud Festival for only £78!

Great to see this highlight of Nathan's work. And when not doing research or teaching he is also looking after BIAJS as our fantastic Treasurer, too! @biajs.bsky.social

⚠️ 10 days until the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies conference, 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies', hosted at Birkbeck, London, 13-15 July! Check out our packed programme full of papers, roundtables, film screenings & guided walks, and register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Congratulations to Professor Mark Geller (UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies) for receiving ERC funding for his research project, BabPharmacy. Analysing thousands of cuneiform recipes to uncover what ancient medicine can teach us today buff.ly/hafXi7t @uclnews.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social #ERC

Delighted to share our full, finalised programme for the BIAJS 2026 Conference 'Space and place in Jewish Studies'! 13 - 15 July @ Birkbeck, London: register below >>> bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2024-confere...

A great opportunity again this year, do share with your networks, institutions, doctoral & postdoctoral students to help build UK Jewish Studies!

📣 all UK-based PhDs and ECRs in jewish studies: apply to attend Limmud festival 2026 at a 90% discount, receive invaluable mentoring and become part of an emerging cohort! Deadline: 31st July Email phdprogramme@limmud.org for questions More info & apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Deadline is also 22nd June!

Upcoming deadline - 15th June for our student essay prize!

🏆 BIAJS PhD Studentship Call! 📜 To support the society and undertake an independent project promoting Jewish studies in the UK and Ireland £1,500 p/a for the duration of the PhD 📅 Deadline 22nd June, interviews during BIAJS 13-15 July or online bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/09/b...

Job (remote, fixed term), Associate Editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization www.posenlibrary.com/job-opportun...

📣 Registration is now open for our 2026 conference, 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies'! 🗺️ 13 - 15th July at Birkbeck, @bengidley.bsky.social www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

New Book: The Medieval Lincoln Jewry, ed. by Dean A. Irwin. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21729

Interview with Dieter Rübsamen, founder of the RI-OPAC which recently reached the threshold of 3 million entries. (For non-medievalists: the RI-OPAC is a bibliographical database for medieval history). #medievalsky mittelalter.hypotheses.org/39926#EV

The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is recruiting a School Partnerships Manager. The mission of this UK educational charity is to educate young people about who Jews are and the contributions they have made to society. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/sir-mar...

After Jim, my phd supervisor, passed away in 2023, it was a truly incredible amount of work that Marieke and others did to help Jim's editing projects like this one (I'm a contributor) see the light of day. Thanks, Marieke and Bruce! zondervanacademic.com/products/apo...

Syriaca.org is hosting it's third annual summer workshop on digital humanities for Syriac Studies. If you are interested in learning DH skills, our data model, and how you can be a part of the work we're doing, please consider applying for the workshop.

🏆 BIAJS 2026 Student Essay Prize: Call for Submissions ⌛Deadline: 15 June ✒️ 2 x £400 prize for 1 outstanding undergraduate dissertation and 1 postgraduate essay by students at UK/Irish institutions on Jewish Studies, ancient through modern Info here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/13/a...

www.jhse.org/event-detail... How Some Christianities Became anti-Jewish 18 May 26, Univ. of Cambridge Time, place TBD By the 2nd century some Christianities in Rome evinced a principled opposition to Judaism, although housed within the 2nd temple a scant century before. Why the shift? To book ⬇️

For three months of Spotify Premium I could just buy a brand new MP3 player with 128 GB and zero ads ever, and have some left over for more CDs that no algorithm will ever hide from me, and the MP3 player will also never insert random Olivia Dean songs into my baroque playlist or sell me insurance.

Excited about the AI-BRIDGES Symposium on Open Data on 28-29 May. I will be a very big whale by then, so I am relieved in this instance for zoom option (tho I'll be sad to miss a London excuse!) www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins... (Day 1: training, Day 2: symposium; free attendance in person/online btw)

It is striking that teaching at the speed of wordy PowerPoints becomes too much information for learning and discourages students taking notes by hand. In high school my teachers used to write on chalkboards. We'd write as they wrote in front of us, same speed. But PowerPoints race ahead faster.

Emailing today with a past president (long ago) and loyal member of BIAJS in modern Jewish film history, I am struck by how special our association is and how important cross-disciplinary ties are for a thriving Jewish studies in the UK. BIAJS conferences make such great memories.

I will be teaching a week on Scrolls fakes in one of the weeks of our new MA in Cultural Heritage, and after some research and hunting have done an update of my website's Cultural Heritage section: biblicaltoolkit.wordpress.com/cultural-her...

@npr.org recently discussed the damage to Iranian #culturalheritage and included comments from USCBS President, Patty Gerstenblith: www.npr.org/2026/03/19/n...

Nominations are open now for this year's Goodwin Award, recognizing exceptional recent scholarly work in the field of classics. Review eligibility requirements here: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and submit your nomination at apply.classicalstudies.org.

Nominations are open now for this year's Cribiore Award, which recognizes outstanding translations from Ancient Greek or Latin by Society members. Review eligibility requirements: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and apply here: apply.classicalstudies.org

Deadlines for intention to submit is THIS FRIDAY 27th March !

Whatever you do this weekend, please include reading an actual book somewhere in there. Books make great fashion statements, too. If you carry a book around instead of a phone people are bound to remember they should probably get back into reading. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Join us on 2 March at Birkbeck to hear Michael Berkowitz on the elusive story of Jewish Hollywood’s role in World War II. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/hollyw...

The deadline for applications has been extended to March 23rd to allow a bit more time for candidates to work on their application materials.

1. This vandalism (left pic) is what Nazis did to Jewish businesses (right pic). 2. This story hasn't been covered by any major newspaper other than the JC and the Mail (though it's still early). 3. Don't know why CAS isn't also cross-posting on bsky (I found their post on X)? @antisemitism.org