Bulletin 2021 Message from the BAJS President July 2021 by Helen Spurling (University of Southampton)

It has been a busy year for us all, with new opportunities but also considerable disruption and challenge. Within BAJS, we have Message from the BAJS President 1 continued to work on your behalf to advance Prizes and Prize-winners 4 teaching and research in Jewish culture and Student Essay Prize 4 history. This year’s annual Bulletin provides The 2021 BAJS Book Prize 4 me with a welcome opportunity to give an Jewish Studies Highlights: from A to Z – including: 5 overview of what the Association has achieved The blossoming of Jewish Studies at the University of Chester 5 for its members over the last twelve months. I Edinburgh Jewish Studies Network 7 hope that you will agree that the Association The Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture at Leeds 8 Sephardi Thought and Modernity webinar series, KCL 11 goes from strength to strength, and, Northern UK and Dublin Jewish Studies Partnership 14 importantly, engages with the issues that really News from Archives, Libraries and Museums – including: 17 matter to our members. The Hidden Treasures Covid-19 Community Archive Project 17 Cecil Roth’s rare book collection 18 A core part of the work of BAJS is to hold an annual conference, which this Jewish Museum Re-opens 18 year was on the theme: ‘World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Book-launch of the Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the 19 Antiquity to the Present’ (5-7 July 2021). The theme was chosen well before Holocaust recent events, but even three years ago it felt timely and an opportunity to News from Parkes Library and Anglo-Jewish Archive 20 explore significant, long-standing or contemporary issues of crisis and News from the British Library’s Hebrew Section 21 response, and the place of , and Jewish Studies within this. We Letter from Spain 24 postponed the 2020 conference in the hopes that we could resume with an in- Remembering Colleagues 25 person event this year. This was not to be, but there were some positive BAJS Outreach Project: Resources for Teaching Jewish Studies in 26 aspects to holding the conference online. We were able to reach wider and Schools and Colleges more diverse audiences, and colleagues were able to participate that would PGR/ECR Network: News and Updates 26 normally find the travel difficult or expensive. We welcomed around 180 Selected Publications of BAJS Members 27 speakers this year, complemented by the participation of even more friends The BAJS Committee 30 and colleagues in Jewish Studies in attendance. Inclusivity was a foundational principle in the planning of the conference. The intention was to have mixed gender panels throughout. The range of paper proposals meant that mixed panels were possible in the vast majority of cases, but we still had 1 a number of single gender panels (11 all women panels, and 6 all men panels anthropological approaches to Jewishness, as well as assess representation of out of 62 panels in total). It is essential that we work on improving these Jews in art, film, television and other visual media. We noted that colleagues statistics in future years, but it may be of interest to note that the majority of in Jewish Studies are represented in a very wide range of HE institutions and all men panels were in the pre-modern sessions, and the majority of all departments across the UK and that it is important to acknowledge that those women panels were in the modern sessions. Our two keynote speakers were working in Jewish Studies may have different methodological issues and women with deeply impressive research profiles and outstanding records in theoretical approaches from those commonly taken within the departments of academic leadership – special thanks to Hindy Najman and Stefanie Schüler- which they are a part. We also emphasised that research in Jewish Studies Springorum. Our final plenary panel was mixed gender and represented a often requires work in specialist languages such as Classical Hebrew and range of institutions involved in Jewish Studies – many thanks to Maria Aramaic or Modern Hebrew and Yiddish. These are crucial messages to Diemling, Hannah Ewence, Charlotte Hempel and Adam Sutcliffe. We also communicate, but further work needs to be done to gain representation for had a large number of PGRs and ECRs presenting, and had a dedicated the whole range of Jewish Studies beyond religion and the ancient world. session for PGR/ECR support led by Katharina Keim (PGR/ECR BAJS will continue its work in advocating for representation in the REF from Representative), which really furthered our priority to nurture the next the earliest stages of a REF cycle and before sub-panel requirements become generation in Jewish Studies. fixed. Our members and colleagues in Jewish Studies also have a significant role to play. In REF 2021, the ‘survey of submission intentions’ was a key Advancing and promoting Jewish Studies is also vital in other aspects of factor in determining what sub-panel expertise was deemed necessary. When research activity. This year marked the culmination of several years of universities receive the next iteration of this survey in the next REF cycle, it advocacy by the BAJS committee to secure representation for Jewish Studies is essential that our members and colleagues come forward and ask that in the Research Excellence Framework (REF). We are pleased that our Jewish Studies be included – otherwise there is no evidence that Jewish interventions led to the appointment of Professor Philip Alexander to sub- Studies representation is needed. BAJS will continue to notify members when panel 31 (Theology and Religious Studies). This was a significant such matters arise and keep you informed of what we are doing to advocate achievement for the Association and we are hugely grateful to Philip on behalf of our community. What our experiences over the last few years Alexander for taking on this enormous workload and ensuring that Jewish have shown is that we can act and make a difference in these matters. Studies has a representative. Engagement with the REF process shows that Jewish Studies is often difficult for those outside the field to define and that It is a fundamental priority for BAJS to protect our field, which means Jewish Studies is frequently associated with antiquity and religion, which are thinking long-term about its future. We are all aware of the difficulties facing of course major areas of Jewish Studies but in no sense representative of the the humanities in the UK but also around the world, with increasing pressures entirety of our field. As such, in communications with REF panel and sub- on student recruitment in much of the sector, and discussions around the value panel chairs, we emphasised that Jewish Studies is an interdisciplinary field of humanities prominent in the media. Jewish Studies is of course broader that stretches from antiquity to the present day and is studied in different than the humanities, but frequently sits within it and faces the same global contexts. We stressed that research is conducted regularly into challenges. This makes it especially vital to work to protect the long-term questions of Jewish culture and identity in addition to or instead of questions future of the field, and demonstrate the value of Jewish Studies. We already around Judaism as a religion, which also has chronological and global breadth have a number of initiatives in place to support our postgraduate and early- and is a major subject area in its own right. We pointed out that Jewish career community and to encourage and develop the next generation of Studies may take historical, literary, sociological, philosophical or scholars: we have a dedicated PG/ECR Representative on the BAJS

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Committee (a position currently held by Dr Katharina Keim, Manchester and for confidential advice on individual circumstances through 1-1 meetings; Lund); financial support for PGRs and ECRs to attend the annual BAJS advice on written drafts of policy documents, institutional statements, or conference (this year it was free to all PGRs and academics not currently in responses requested by institutions; advice on in matters of a full-time permanent academic post); and our mentoring scheme. BAJS also education, including decolonising the curriculum; support regarding offers an annual PGR studentship (currently held by Susannah Rees, King’s marginalisation or exclusion of Jewish experience or expertise in Jewish College ). As studentship holder, Susannah also sits on the BAJS Studies in institutional discussions; and the possibility of speaking to Committee and contributes to the projects developed by the Association. An institutional management (only at the request of a member and with important current project is to think beyond UG and PG support, and reach demonstrable wider support from their colleagues). The AWG will act in pre-university audiences. As such, Susannah Rees, Lindsey Askin and David accordance with the wishes of our members, and we are here to support and Tollerton have been working on identifying pathways to support school and not intrude. One of the first initiatives from the AWG was a dedicated session college students to engage with Jewish Studies courses at university. In order in the annual conference for informal discussion and support around dealing to facilitate this, a scoping exercise was conducted by Susannah, who with antisemitism in an HE setting. The session was facilitated by members contacted organisations such as professional associations of teachers (e.g., of the BAJS committee and AWG, and was led by the concerns of attendees, SACRE and NATRE) and institutions in the culture and heritage sector (e.g., ranging from experiences on campus to questions around teaching on the Jewish Museum London and the CCJ). The intention was to assess how antisemitism. We encourage our members to take advantage of the support Jewish Studies features in school and college curricula, and what types of offered by the AWG as needed, and to look out for future initiatives from the cultural engagement activities (e.g., visits to or museums) are AWG. Many thanks to James Renton for leading the working group. welcomed by schools and colleges. It is intended that this research feeds into the design of BAJS activities and resources that will promote engagement This Bulletin itself is a major aspect of the work of BAJS to promote Jewish with Jewish Studies subjects in schools and colleges. We very much welcome Studies in the UK and Ireland, and my thanks go to Hannah Ewence and Yulia members’ input into this project, so please get in touch with any feedback or Egorova for their hard work in putting it together. The production of the ideas. Bulletin gives us a valuable opportunity to highlight our members’ diverse successes, including the winners of our annual book prize as well as our UG It is also essential for us to engage with contemporary challenges. We are all and PG essay prizes. As always, we welcome your feedback, and I hope you well aware of recent discussions around antisemitism, including the IHRA enjoy reading this Bulletin and finding out more about our achievements in definition of antisemitism and the debates this has provoked. It is clear that Jewish Studies over the last year. You can of course also keep track of events there are diverse views on this subject within our Jewish Studies community, and announcements during the year by signing up to the BAJS website and so BAJS has not endorsed an official line on the IHRA definition in order https://britishjewishstudies.org/ brilliantly maintained by Zuleika Rodgers, or to ensure that we can represent the views of all our members. This year BAJS via Twitter @JewishStudiesUK, which is now a significant means of has established an ‘Antisemitism Working Group’ (AWG), which aims to communication expertly managed by Ben Gidley. support those who face issues around antisemitism whether in working life, policy-making at institutional level, or teaching. The goal of the AWG is to I would like to finish by saying thank you to all on the BAJS Committee for offer research expertise and professional support for those in Jewish Studies their support and dedication. The BAJS committee work on a voluntary basis who are facing challenges associated with antisemitism. The AWG offers on behalf of us all in Jewish Studies, and give a great deal of time and support to our members in a variety of ways including: providing a safe space commitment to ensure the Association delivers on its whole range of

3 activities. This is also an opportunity for me to say thank you to all our First Place in the Postgraduate category goes to Martin Lindner from the members for their engagement and willingness to get involved. It is inspiring University of Cambridge for the paper on ‘“Wer ‘ihr’? Wen meinst du mit to see how we can all work together to promote the importance of Jewish ‘ihr’?”’[‘“Who ‘you’? Whom do you mean by ‘you’?”’]: Questions of Jewish Studies. Belonging in Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der Kindheit [House of Childhood] (2000) and Doron Rabinovici's Ohnehin [Anyway]’ (2004). Do get in touch with the BAJS committee if you are experiencing issues or opportunities related to Jewish Studies, whether on an individual level or in your department or institution. The fundamental role of BAJS is to support The 2021 BAJS Book Prize its members. The book prize initiative was launched by BAJS in 2018 to recognise and promote outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies. Each year With best wishes, BAJS will award £1,000 for the best monograph submitted, for works that are original, are methodologically rigorous, and make a significant contribution to Jewish Studies. The chronological focus alternates from year

to year: in the even years, books on the ancient to medieval period; in the odd years, books on the early-modern to modern period. Helen Spurling For this year’s prize the panel sought and received a wide range of excellent President of BAJS submissions related to early modern and modern contexts. From an extremely strong field the prize panel made the following awards:

The winning entry was Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution by Brendan Prizes and Prize-winners McGeever, a strikingly original study that uncovers a wide range of new sources in their original language and forces us to rethink Jewish political Student Essay Prize subjectivity around the Russian Revolution. McGeever offers a novel argument about anti-racist praxis, Marxism, and antisemitism, but is mindful For this year’s essay prize, BAJS attracted a good number of excellent entries of what areas still need to be explored in the field. Lucidly written and of from a wide range of institutions, and the judges really enjoyed reading the considerable interest to scholars and general readers concerned with submissions. The jury’s decision is to award an undergraduate and antisemitism and radical history, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution postgraduate prize and to make one honourable mention. engages with a range of thinkers and writers on class and race, and is highly First Place in the Undergraduate category goes to Phoebe Brandon from the relevant for thinking about these questions today. for the paper on ‘Challenging the “plight” of the Honourable mentions were made for Rebecca Clifford’s Survivors: agunah: an exploration of feminist Orthodox responses to the problem of Children’s Lives After the Holocaust and Hannah Ewence’s The Alien Jew in chained women in ’. the British Imagination, 1881-1905. The judges would also like to make an honourable mention of the Taking these two volumes in turn, the judges commented that Survivors is undergraduate paper by Ellie Burket from the University of Manchester. beautifully written and ambitious. The book’s innovative methodology

4 makes a new contribution in the crowded field of Holocaust studies, university. Twenty-seven students took a new module in modern Jewish rethinking the place of children in Holocaust history but more broadly as history and several students wrote undergraduate dissertations in Jewish subjects of inquiry and historical agents in their own right. Clifford listens to studies, using the archives of the Wiener Holocaust Library and the Jewish the voices on their own terms and in this way makes sense of children as they Chronicle. reach adulthood, forcing us to rethink categories of survivor, and trauma, and changing notions of memory and testimony. Survivors is accessible to a wide audience and yet deeply rooted in original scholarship, interviews, and CHESTER archival work. by Hannah Ewence Of The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, the judges noted how Jewish Studies at the University of Chester is really beginning to flourish, impressively it was framed and researched, with an original argument about with several academics working in the field in the Department of History and Jews as a conduit of British territorial anxieties. Ewence offers a wide- Archaeology, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. ranging discussion of space and place, and their influence on conceptions of ‘the Jew’. Well written and based on exceptional source research, this is a In TRS, Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination book that echoes powerfully in a contemporary context. The Alien Jew in the Dr Alana Vincent has been appointed as the president of the International British Imagination is of interest to scholars of history and migration, but also Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. She is also the co-investigator general community audiences. for the AHRC-funded British Ritual Innovation under Covid-19 [BRIC-19] project, run jointly with Josh Edelman (MMU). BRIC-19 examines how The 2022 book prize will be launched in the autumn, focused on monographs British communities have adapted to the restrictions imposed in response to addressing ancient and medieval contexts. the COVID-19 pandemic. Working in partnership with the Council of Christians and Jews, Interfaith Scotland, and the Faith & Belief Forum, the Jewish Studies Highlights: from A to Z project aims to document, analyse, and understand the new ways that communities of all faiths and beliefs across the UK are coming together, and CARDIFF to use those findings to help make religious communities stronger and more resilient for the future. At Cardiff University, the lecturer in Modern Jewish History, Jaclyn Granick has a new book published with Cambridge University Press: International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War. Granick is also a Co- The project Investigator of the ‘Jewish’ Country Houses project, based at Oxford, which comprises a has been active on several fronts, including convening a Zoom research large-scale seminar during the pandemic, creating a European Route of Jewish Heritage, survey, a dozen and making connections with Holocaust survivors and educators. The Jewish case studies, and History Association of South Wales run by the Cardiff Jewish community, an action and the plan of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage to develop the Merthyr research group of Tydfil into a Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre, are both exciting religious and technical professionals who have agreed to incorporate Jewish heritage developments in the region supported in small part by the solutions developed from project findings into their practice. A number of

5 case studies and action research group participants are situated within Jewish The volume, published by Palgrave in late 2019, explores responses to Jewish communities in the UK. immigration at the fin de siècle through the prism of space. Dr Ewence was The final report on project findings will be released in an event on 28th July; also invited to speak about the book at the ‘Arrival Neighbourhoods in for more information and updates, please see the project website: European Cities’ workshop, hosted by the University of Osnabrück in https://bric19.mmu.ac.uk February, as well as delivering research seminars at the Parkes Institute in Southampton in December 2020, and for the Jewish Historical Society of Dr Vincent is currently writing her third monograph The Consequences of England in May 2021. Dr Ewence also published an article ‘When they Get Imagination: Holocaust Memory and Political Fantasy from the Marvel to the Border’ in History Today (see here) in December 2020 which explored Universe to our own due to be published in 2022. She also published an article the anxiety generated in Britain about perceived clandestine Jewish migrant in JewTh!nk in March “WanderVision and the Spectre of the Jewish Nazi”, journeys in the run up to the passage of the Aliens Act in 1905. which can be found here. In January 2021 Dr Ewence was also part of the expert panel speaking to the Professor Tim Grady (Dept. History and Archaeology) is the co-investigator Historical Society of Israel about recent trends in Modern Jewish History. for the AHRC project European Fascist Movements, 1919-1941 (see here) The event was organised by Professor Miri Rubin on behalf of the Jewish which looks to consolidate recent innovations in the study of right-wing Historical Society of England. A report about the event will be published extremism. The project brings together an international team of specialists on shortly in Transactions. fascist movements in interwar Europe to produce a collection of key resources for the teaching and research of fascist movements. A large public The appointment of Dr Kara Critchell to a full-time post in the Department exhibition which showcases some of History and Archaeology in 2020 has enabled a significant expansion in of the findings from the project will the teaching of history with a relevance to Jewish studies, for both the be launching at the Weiner Library undergraduate and postgraduate history programmes. To complement the in October 2021, running until emphasis on the teaching of the Holocaust, for example, Dr Critchell has February 2022. Details about ‘This developed new modules designed to enhance student awareness and Fascist Life: Radical Right understanding of genocide. Her third-year special subject module ‘Genocide Movements in Interwar Europe’ can in History and Memory’ poses broad historical questions about acts of be found here. genocide from European settler colonialism to present day acts of atrocity in In February, the Department of Myanmar. The module considers the aftermath of genocide, including issues History and Archaeology hosted a of retribution and justice, denial and the complexities surrounding well-attended book launch (over memorialisation and remembrance of these crimes as we enter the digital age. MS Teams) for Dr Hannah Ewence’s monograph The Alien Similarly, a new MA module ‘Deathscapes’ allows students to explore the Jew in the British Imagination, complex intersections between atrocity, landscape and memory. By 1881-1905: Space, Mobility and consulting a range of primary material including oral history, memorials, Territoriality (see here). material culture and the sites of atrocity themselves, students explore key questions surrounding the role that ‘deathscapes’ play in shaping local,

6 national and transnational memory and in the construction of historical railroads in Imperial Russia. Her diaries shed light on the “political economy understanding of genocide. of intimacy”—a complex calculus of capital, aristocratic sociability, cultural patronage, and imperial charity—in which her family participated. Critical to In April, Dr Critchell’s chapter ‘From Celebrating Diversity to British personalizing this political intimacy were the Poliakov women, who were Values: The Changing Face of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain’ appeared active hosts in their aristocratic salon and munificent patron of the arts. in the Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust, edited by Tom Intimacy in the family was another theme in Poliakova’s diaries, revealing Lawson and Andy Pearce. The chapter charts the ways in which Holocaust the deep tensions and transformations in Jewish everyday life in Russia and memorialisation in Britain has been reimagined and reshaped since the first later France. national commemoration took place in 2001. The recording of the lecture is available here through this link. DURHAM EDINBURGH This year the Lucille Cairns Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof ChaeRan Freeze (Brandeis) under the title Love Actually? Intimacy in by Hannah Holtschneider Zinaida Poliakova’s Diaries in Imperial Russia. Professor Peter Davies and I turned the move to fully online teaching and

academic activities across the past academic year into a gain for Edinburgh Jewish Studies Network (https://jewishstudies.div.ed.ac.uk/). We started by running a reading group to explore the relevance of the study of emotions for Jewish Studies. The participants included our own graduate students and colleagues in the United States. Together with the Religious Studies Research Seminar we hosted Aaron Hughes who spoke about ‘Jewish Studies and Critical Religion’; and we co-hosted a seminar with the USC Visual History Foundation exploring the multi-disciplinary opportunities of researching within the Visual History Archive. Tommy Curry of Edinburgh University connected the fields of Jewish Studies and gender studies with a paper on the rape of Jewish men during the Holocaust. Encouraged by our early meetings we organised a panel event entitled Jewish Studies in Translation that drew on the expertise of international scholars in different areas of Jewish Studies: Naomi Seidman from the University of Toronto, Miriam Udel of Emory University, Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah from the Jewish Historical Museum in

Amsterdam and Peter Davies gave short presentations followed by discussion among the panel and with the wider audience. The online format meant that Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar and Rozaliia we were able to include a much wider range of scholars on the panel and in Poliakov, known as the Russian Rothschilds, who dominated finance and the audience who, under ‘normal’ circumstances, would primarily meet at conferences. We are exploring further events of this nature in the future, as a 7 way of continuing and initiating scholarly exchanges and modelling Also in 2020, Dr Rebekah Welton published her first monograph ‘He is a academic debate also to our students. Glutton and a Drunkard’: Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible with Brill. She discussed the book at the July 2020 BAJS online event showcasing emerging talent in Jewish studies. The book considers Deuteronomy 21:18- PhD Students 21 in relation to social and ritual roles of food and alcohol in Late Bronze Age to Persian-period Syro-Palestine. Sophie Bayer, The correspondence of Ernst and Anicuta Levin with Max Unold and Reinhard Koester as found in the Ernst Levin Collection LEEDS Claire Aubin, Post-World War II immigration of perpetrators to the United States The Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture The Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture (23 March 2021) was hosted online EXETER and jointly with the Institute for Medieval Studies and the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science. In October 2020 Prof. David Horrell published Ethnicity and Inclusion: Prof. Asa Simon Mittman spoke about “Far From : The Exclusion Religion, Race, and Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian of Jews on Christian Maps”. Prof. Asa S. Mittman (Art History, California Identities with Eerdmans. The book argues that contemporary ideologies of State University-Chico) is an authority on medieval monsters. racial and religious difference can be traced back to the earliest relationships between Christianity and Judaism, and in particular challenges New Testament studies in relation to implicit whiteness. Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou is finalising God: An Anatomy, written for a broad public audience and due to be published in September 2021. The book critically considers the depiction of divinity in the Hebrew Bible, its roots in Ancient West Asia, and how Western society continues to be influenced by the modes of monotheism developed in these contexts. In 2020 Dr David Tollerton published Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape: Politics, Sacrality, and Diversity with Routledge. This is the first monograph to consider Britain’s public Holocaust remembrance in dialogue with religious studies, and focuses particularly on social diversity, the politics of memory, and evolving experiences of sacralisation. He has written several follow up blog pieces and in March 2021 gave a public lecture on the book for the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University.

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This lecture was about how medieval Christian maps used principles of recruit a metadata specialist to assist with the final phase of the project, to inclusion and exclusion to generate fictions of collective identity. Prof. create records for the remaining Hebrew pamphlets. Mittman examined cartographical images of Jews, thus far understudied but We are delighted that interest in and usage of the Roth Collection have key to the creation of a central myth of the Middle Ages: Christendom as a increased as a direct result of our cataloguing and advocacy work and will be geographical category. Because the lecture happened online, we drew a large, considering further engagement activities beyond the lifetime of the funded international audience as well as a local one. project. Activity of other colleagues Update from Special Collections at the – Cecil Roth Collection On 3 December, Eva Frojmovic “led” a virtual visit of the POLIN museum for Kol Nefesh Masorti synagogue. We are now into the final phase of work on a Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe-funded project to create and enhance catalogue records and indexes She has been busy organising a multi-session panel for the BAJS Annual for the Cecil Roth Collection at the University of Leeds. Conference: “World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present”. The title of the panel is “Jewish Heritage in/and Crisis” and it Due to the Covid pandemic the timeline for the project has been extended, will consist of 6 sessions of standard length papers, a session of short with the University Library making additional investments to ensure project presentations from the archive/library/museums sector, and a roundtable work continued during lockdown. session. The subthemes of the individual sessions are: Research on the manuscripts in the Roth Collection has now been completed I: Memorialisations; II: Memory Work; III: Museum Crisis and Critique; IV and the revised catalogue records will be ingested into our collections and V: Museum history and politics in the Israeli context, VI: management system and made visible during Summer 2021. Libraries/archives and Crisis. The roundtable addresses the question: “Jewish Detailed copy-specific information has been added to the catalogue records heritage activism, collecting, and museum formation - are they/were they for Roth’s rare books, many of which contain annotations, ownership (always) a creative response to crisis? inscriptions, inkstamps and bookplates which reveal usage through Prof. Pollock was in conversation about the work and life of the Berlin-born generations and across continents. Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), at the Leo Baeck Institute in A series of blog posts describes some of the discoveries made as part of this New York on 20 April 2021 (with Kerry Wallach, Gettysburg College, PA). work: Hosted by LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide • Revealing the Roth Collection Studies of Ramapo College of New Jersey. • The Extraordinary in the Ordinary – Cecil Roth’s Manuscript Collection • MS Roth 62: A Passover with “delightful illustrations” • ‘A fox, a lord, a madman’: students’ annotations in the Cecil Roth Collection Work to create catalogue records for the pamphlets in the Roth Collection in languages other than Hebrew is nearing completion and these will be visible in the catalogue from the summer. Later this year (2021) we will seek to

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Murdered while pregnant on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WeDlABf5ho arrival at Auschwitz in 1943 Jay was in conversation with photographer Leslie Hakim-Dowek and Bea at the age of 26, Charlotte Lewkowicz from Sephardi Voices: 'Voices of Sephardi/Mizrahi Memory', Salomon left behind an February 2021. artistic legacy that is as beguiling as it is perplexing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG9rDf7ancQ A single, composite artwork Johanna Stiebert has guest edited a special edition of the Journal of of images, text and music that Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, with the title 'Activism in the Biblical she titled Leben? oder Studies Classroom'. It's open access, issue 2/1 (2020) and available Theater? (Life? Or Theater?) here: https://jibs.group.shef.ac.uk/volume-2/ comprises 784 paintings in a variety of modes produced in It contains contributions on confronting Judeophobia and Antisemitism in the one year between 1941 and Biblical Studies Classroom, as well as a piece on Rabbinical Activists. 1942 in the South of France. Prof. Stiebert’s forthcoming book, co-authored with Adriaan van Klinken and Salomon began the work after with Sebyala Brian and Fredrick Hudson, will be called Sacred Queer having spent several months Stories (James Currey, forthcoming in November 2021). It is based on a in a French concentration British Academy project focused on liberatory readings of biblical texts with camp at Gurs where many LGBTQ+ refugees in Kenya. She has presented on the above project, together ‘German’ refugees in the with Adriaan van Klinken, at both the Centre for Religion and Public Life at France had been interned, Leeds (4 Feb 2021) and at the Biblical Studies Seminar at King's College (1 including Hannah Arendt. In March 2021). The title in each case was: ‘Re-storying the Bible with Ugandan 1943, Salomon had been LGBTQ+ Refugees.’ Prof. Stiebert gave the Keynote ‘Virgins, Violence and forced into hiding once Italy, hitherto controlling the Nice region where so the Bible’ at the annual conference of the Centre for the Study of Bible and many Jewish refugees had sought refuge, fell to German control after Hitler’s Violence, titled 'From the Rising to the Setting Sun: Global Perspectives on invasion of Italy. Pollock is the author of Charlotte Salomon and the Bible and Violence' (26 May 2021). On 4 June she presented at the France- Theatre of Memory (Yale U. Press, 2018. She has described Leben? oder based Avisa Project, focused on the history of sexual harassment on 'Sexual Theater? as “an event in the history of modern art,” and has sought to present Harassment in the Hebrew Bible'. a searching analysis of Salomon’s paintings through the lenses of feminist art history and Jewish studies in order to draw out a more complex range of The Shiloh Project, which Prof. Stiebert co-directs, has regular contributions meanings in the work than are usually ascribed to it when it has treated as a on the Hebrew Bible/by Hebrew Bible scholars and a recent post on male- visual autobiography. male rape in rabbinic texts. See: Events https://www.shilohproject.blog Jay Posser and Eva Frojmovic: 'Jewish Objects in a Time of Crisis.' Millim Judith Tucker contributed to the Insiders/Outsiders festival on March 8th online, June 2020 2021 with a talk titled “Becoming English: Eva Tucker (1929-2015)”, about her mother, the writer Eva Tucker, and a little about Judith Tucker’s own 10 work too, inasmuch as it relates to Eva Tucker’s history and matters of PhD Research in the news memory. Here is the link to the YouTube recording. PhD students carried on with their work over this extraordinarily difficult year with admirable intellectual energies and organisational skills. To mention just one project as an example: Emma Rozenberg presented her LONDON research on ‘The Plight of the “Misbegotten”: A Critical Analysis of Approaches to Mamzerut in the British Jewish Community’ at Limmud UK. King’s College London This led to an article in the Jewish Chronicle, featuring her project, which Sephardi Thought and Modernity: An Exploration of Different quickly advanced to the ‘most read’ item of the newspaper’s online edition. Experiences of Sephardi Modernization (February – June 2021) Emma Rozenberg’s research (supervised by Laliv Clenman, Andrea Schatz and Ruth Sheldon) is based on interviews with individuals affected by the Among the highlights of this year’s virtual communication with scholars, stigma, and activists; it highlights many new facets of the issue and students and the wider public was a webinar series, co-organised by Yuval analyses diverse approaches and their implications for individuals, families Evri (King’s College London) and Angy Cohen (University of Calgary) in and communities. collaboration with the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the American Sephardi Federation. Research in progress The series explored processes of Jewish modernization not exclusively Adam Sutcliffe received Leverhulme funding for his new project entitled mediated by Europeanization. It dealt with questions of non-dichotomic ‘Who Cares? Empathy Trouble in History’. The project explores the identities, multiplicity and loss of language, colonization, social changing, and often contested, place of empathy in the western historical transformation, and intellectual responses to it. Speakers and topics included: tradition from the Scottish Enlightenment through nineteenth-century negotiations of sentiment, nationhood, empire and objectivity, to late Almog Behar ( University): Between Judeo-Arabic, Literary Arabic twentieth-century quarrels over empathy and historical pedagogy. and Hebrew in Jewish-Arab (Literary) Modernity Joan Taylor continued working on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Babatha’s Yaakov Yadgar (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Sisters in the Christmas Cave: An “Engendered” Archaeology Approach’, Oxford): Sephardim in Israel and the Critique of Secularism which sheds light on Judaean women refugees. She also explores the Clemence Boulouque (Columbia University): In Praise of the Orient: Elia materiality and archaeology of the Scrolls more generally, working, among Benamozegh’s Sephardic Modernities others, with the National Geographic on a documentary on the Copper Scroll. Gabriel Abensour (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Yosef Knafo’s Julian Weiss was awarded Leverhulme funding for his research project ‘In Struggle for Democratization of Knowledge in Fin de Siècle Essaouira the Tracks of Josephus: Translating Judaism across Iberian Worlds, 1492- 1687’, which examines why Josephus was translated and why he mattered to Yuval Evri (King’s College London) and Angy Cohen (University of Christians, crypto-Jews and Jews in a world that spanned the global Empires Calgary): Foreign in a Familiar Land: Language and Belonging in the Work of Spain and Portugal and the lands of the Sephardic diaspora. of Jacqueline Kahanoff, Albert Memmi and Jacques Derrida. Andrea Schatz took up a research fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for

Advanced Study (NIAS) in (virtual) Amsterdam. Her book ‘In a Fragile World: Exilic History among Early Modern European Jews’ investigates how 11

in בדד authors, editors, translators and printers between Kraków and Amsterdam • Lizzie Hare, “How lonely sits the city: A critical exploration of created a historical library in the vernacular that shows their critical the Hebrew Bible, in conversation with select modern empirical engagement with the present moment and with history beyond (Christian, research on loneliness” secular and colonial) progress narratives. • Freddy Hedley, “How far do the theme and language of covenant Research in other areas continues to thrive as well. Paul Joyce is writing a influence the theology of the book of Lamentations?” in the ’יפת תואר‘ commentary on the book of Amos; Jonathan Stökl is preparing a monograph • Neil Janes, “A Term-Oriented Analysis of the phrase on Judean and Babylonian ordination rituals in the first millennium BCE, and Bavli and Rabbinic literature” also co-organised with the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies at UCL • Eliza Justice, “The Patriarch, According to the Prophet, According to a conference on ‘Foreign Nations in the Prophets’. David Torollo is about to the Consensus: A Study of Abraham in Ezekiel 33” :in the Temple Scroll עיר publish a monograph on the medieval ethical work Mishle he-‘arav, which • Nicholas Kay, “The Concept of Terminology and Spatiality” will include a critical edition of the Hebrew text and a Spanish translation, and he continues his funded research on ‘The Boundaries of Wisdom: The • Shalom Morris, “Western Sephardim in the Age of Reform” Circulation of Practical Ethics among Jews, Muslims and Christians in the • Susannah Rees, “The Role of Cosmetics in the Construction and Medieval Mediterranean’. Performance of Identity in Ancient Israel” • Anthony Nwosu, “Moral Ambiguity in the Biblical Characterization For more on Jewish Studies at King’s, its network and activities, please visit: of David: A Study of 2 Sam 12:13-25” https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/jewish-studies • John Ritzema, “Theophany and the Judahite cult in the Hebrew Bible, with reference to epiphany in some Greek and Ancient Near Eastern PhD Students literature” • Emma Rozenberg, “The Plight of the ‘Misbegotten’: A Critical • Amelia Allsop, “A Borrowed Place: Jewish Refugees in Hong Kong, Analysis of Approaches to Mamzerut in the British Jewish 1938–1949” Community” • Alex Baldi, “Death Penalty Laws and Theologies in the Priestly • Elisabeth Sawerthal, “Words of Power: Divination and Its Writings of the Pentateuch” Relationships of Power in Ancient Egypt and in the Hebrew Bible” • Karen Beasley, “The Priest and the Pentagram: Josephus’ • Jess Wood, “How do visual commentaries contribute to our presentation of magic and witchcraft in the Jewish Antiquities” understanding of verses of Torah? An arts practice exploration • Cristina de Castro Venegas, “Beyond Gender Paradigms: The drawing on the interpretative strategies of the early rabbis” Behaviour of Women in Love – A Comparative Study of The Song of Songs and Romeo and Juliet” • Ryan Chester, “The Sanctifying God and the Profaning God in the University College London Hebrew Bible” The academic year 2020/21 has seen major changes in the provision of • Wendy Filer, “A Space for Jewish Justice: The Mahamad’s Court of Yiddish in the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. After more the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish of London 1721–1868” than twenty years as Benzion Margulies Lecturer in Yiddish, Dr Helen Beer • Jasmine Foo, “Traces of Ezra's ‘Holy Seed’ Ideology in the Qumran retired in July 2020. Helen has been a major figurehead, a role model, and a Corpus and Beyond” source of great inspiration. Her very popular courses in Yiddish language (on 12 four levels) and in Yiddish culture and literature have attracted cohorts of degree students, continuing education students, and doctoral researchers, An opening keynote by Professor Gideon Shimoni (Hebrew University of many of whom have gone on to embrace Yiddish as a life-long pursuit. She Jerusalem) surveyed the historiography on South African Jews and pointed is famous for her contribution to Yiddish Summer Schools in London and to new areas for research, including the community’s growing preoccupation elsewhere in Europe, as well as for her drama productions in the UCL with its Lithuanian origins, and collective memory cultures. In a rich panel Bloomsbury Theatre and at her annual Purim spiels, many of which she has focused on Jews and consumerism, Professor Deborah Posel (University of written herself, adapting the Scroll of Esther to modern, topical themes. She the Free State) considered the life of Barney Barnato and the place of Jews in remains associated to the Department in an emeritus capacity. wider economic histories of South Africa. Responses to Professor Shimoni's paper were offered by Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University), Eli With the support of a substantial grant from a generous funder, an Lederhendler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Shirli Gilbert appointment has been made to take over from Helen and secure the long-term (University College London), and to Professor Posel's paper by Adam future of Yiddish in the Department. Our new lecturer in Yiddish, to begin in Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town), Hasia Diner (New York September 2021, is Dr Sonia Gollance, graduate of the University of University), and Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). A lively and Pennsylvania, then Director of Yiddish Studies at Ohio State University, and controversial panel on 'Jewish History in SA Public Life' considered the currently a post-doctoral fellow in Vienna. Her discipline is Yiddish and challenges of representing South African Jewish life in the public sphere, and German-Jewish Studies, with a specializa§tion in literature, dance, theatre, additional panels focused on wide-ranging topics from Holocaust memory to and gender. Her first book, based on her UPenn doctoral thesis, will be the histories of ultra-Orthodox and Reform Judaism, demographic trends, published this year at Stanford University Press, under the engaging title: It intra-communal relations, and South African Jewish cookbooks. Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity. Sonia has also been active in the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, in dance and The discussions clearly revealed that while there exists a nucleus of critical, drama productions, and other creative projects. She will be offering courses nuanced research on Jews in South Africa, many questions remain ripe for at UCL in Yiddish language, literature, and culture. Yiddish teaching also further exploration. There is much to be done to excavate the experiences of continues to be supported by our Teaching Lecturers, Dr Sima Beeri and Dr Jewish women, Sephardim, immigrants, and diverse others who did not fit Simo Muir. into the Ashkenazi white male mould. Significant gaps also remain in our understanding of the relationships between Jews and their diverse non-Jewish The conference 'Jews in South Africa: New Directions in Research' was neighbours across the colour spectrum, beyond the limited rubric of apartheid presented online in October 2020 by the Institute of Jewish Studies at politics. The active participation in the conference of scholars outside the University College London in partnership with the Kaplan Centre for Jewish immediate field – both those working in the broader field of modern Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. The conference provided the first history, and those focused on South African history – made clear the value of serious opportunity in many years to take stock of the scholarship on South more integrated and comparative work. Some of these topics will be taken up African Jewry and to create a robust, forward-looking agenda. Presentations in a forthcoming special issue of Jewish Historical Studies. We look forward were delivered by established scholars in the field as well as PhD students to seeing the growth of the field in the coming years. and early career scholars from the UK, South Africa, the United States, Israel, Australia, and Lithuania, working in numerous disciplines including history, politics, sociology, and literature.

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This twitter poem by Leo Mercer, of which a video-animated version may be found online, celebrates a manuscript, copied in Pontypridd in 1917, of the liturgical compositions of the Odessa Cantor Jacob Bachmann, now held at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. (Some of his compositions were performed by the Menorah synagogue choir in the Rylands Library’s historic reading room in November 2019.) As one of the items in the 50 Jewish Objects Project of the Manchester-led Northern UK and Dublin Jewish Studies Partnership, it attracted Leo’s attention as one of a group of contemporary artists engaging with Manchester and other Northern holdings of telling items of Jewish material culture, manuscripts and prints. Now in its

One of the “50 Jewish Objects2, a Ketubbah from Kolkata, 1852 (Manchester Gaster Hebrew MS 2009)

14 third year, and moved entirely online for the time being, the 50 Jewish of Art and Blood, the Goering Catalogue”, co-written by CJS co-director Objects Project also inspired Atar Hadari to respond to the Rylands second- Jean-Marc Dreyfus. century papyrus fragment of John’s Gospel with a cycle of poems entitled Like other institutions, the COVID-forced move to online activities “Gethsemane” – in which he has Caiaphas say, after Jesus upsets the tables facilitated the internationalization of activities, not least when hosting the of money changers in the Temple: fifth Post-Doctoral and Doctoral Jewish Studies Research Training Event with 31 participants from seven countries. Over two days, a team of Attend, for there is nothing but the law colleagues at Manchester’s Centre for Jewish Studies and the Northern And who will spill the blood. partner institutions explored with participants questions of academic career The animal is just a sinecure – planning, research funding and lectureship applications, social networking in We know who we are the service of research, and what should be the future priorities of Jewish Now bring me the breastplate of twelve stones Studies funders, the latter in conversation with Irene Zwiep of Amsterdam And take that one University. To where he can become one with his star. The painter Juliet Goodden will be the next artist to produce artwork in response to one of the objects later in 2021, while Centre for Jewish Studies SOUTHAMPTON post-doctoral researcher Stefania Silvestri is working on a book that weaves the story of the 50 Jewish Objects into the broader tapestry of global Jewish The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton culture and history. Stefania is joined by several other post-doctoral by Dr Claire Le Foll (Director of the Parkes Institute) and the Parkes researchers attached to the Centre, including Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Institute Team https://www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/index.page Europe Post-Doctoral Fellow and Rabba Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz ( from Yeshivat Maharat, 2021) who conducts research on the history of The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the Limmud. We regularly sponsor post-doctoral applications which choose the University of Southampton has had a very successful year in spite of the CJS as their host, and welcome early enquiries with regard to the BA difficult circumstances and the departure of some colleagues, in particular Fellowships and the 2022 Manchester University Simon Fellowships (3 Dan Levene whom we want to thank for all he has done for the Parkes years). Institute. We were very pleased to welcome new members: Dr Scott Soo, who works on the history of the ‘concentration camps’ in France before and during László Nemes, Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul (2015), gave the 2021 WW2; Muniza Siddiqui who is our Agron Partnership manager and will also Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies to an international online audience share with Katie Power the role of Karten Digital Officer. Thanks to this fresh in conversation with CJS’s Cathy Gelbin, providing both deeply reflected and creative energy, we have been able not only to maintain the Parkes insights into the cinematic representation of the unrepresentable, and Institute normal activities but to expand our reach and develop new revealing glimpses of the institutional support (or lack of it) he and his team partnerships and projects. received in various countries while making Son of Saul, which was streamed before László’s lecture. Other film-oriented events of the Centre took place in the Screen & Talk series, which included the documentary “A Collection

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Reiter) and Michael L. Miller (Parkes Lecture). All the lecture recordings are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxpqV_WX3F1O2-nMGA46Pw The Parkes Institute is also supporting and organizing three online and international conferences: the annual BAJS conference on ‘World in Crisis’ (5-7 July 2021) organized by Helen Spurling; the first international conference on ‘The History, Culture and Heritage of Jews in Belarus Across The Age’ (28-30 June 2021) curated by Claire Le Foll; and the second Parkes Institute International Summer Graduate Seminar on ‘Cultural Heritage and Jewish/non-Jewish Relations’ (12-14 July 2021) organized by Katalin Straner and George Gilbert. Our doctoral seminar was particularly lively this year with fortnightly sessions coordinated by George Gilbert. Our Outreach programme has been more vibrant than ever, thanks to our three Kindertransport online course (5-23 July 2021) Karten Outreach fellows. The lnterfaith lecture was delivered by Helen Spurling and Claire Le Foll on ‘Jewish-Christian dialogue in Marc Chagall’s paintings’. Our annual commemoration on Holocaust Memorial Day in We are proud of having been able to offer a rich programme of research partnership with Solent University included a testimony by Holocaust seminars and public lectures to a large and global Zoom audience. Starting survivor Henry Schachter and a theatrical performance by Solent staff and with a seminar for Black History Month on Black Jewish relations in America students of extracts of the play Kindertransport by Diane Samuels. An online and Britain with Brian Cheyette and David Brauner and finishing on a high exhibition displayed responses from local students to Holocaust testimony note with a discussion with Faith Hillis of the role of Jewish intellectuals in based on workshops led by the Parkes Institute team across the years. the ‘Russian colonies’ abroad, the programme also included reflections on ancient Jewish medicine and magic (Lindsey Askin), a topical insight into the We also organized very engaging online outreach events, including the UK image of the ‘diseased’ Jew during the 1892 cholera epidemic (Hannah film premiere of ‘#Uploading Holocaust’ followed by a roundtable Ewence) and stimulating discussion on German as a Jewish problem (Marc discussion on ‘memory, dark tourism and art in the digital age’. Our second Volovici). We were pleased to hear about the research of our PhD students short online course for educators (5-23 July 2021) will be this year on the Verity Steele and Joseph Finlay. One of the highlight was the panel very Parkesian theme of ‘Complicating narratives of the Kindertransport’, discussion held in partnership with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research organized and delivered by Heather Mann, Jennifer Craig-Norton, Nicola about the archives of East-European Jewry. It was particularly enlightening Woodhead and Tony Kushner. to cross the points of views on how archives adjusted to the pandemic, If you want to receive our newsletter and hear more about our events, please hearing from our archivist Karen Robson, our partner from Petersburg sign up here. Judaica Alexander Ivanov and Jonathan Brent from YIVO. Our named lectures were followed by a local and global audience and were delivered by Tony Kushner and Aimee Bunting (Rein Lecture), Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Karten lecture), Joachim Schlör (Montefiore lecture in memory of Andrea 16

and rulings from religious authorities about food products that were News from Archives, Libraries and Museums permissible at Pesach ‘in extremis’. They cover a whole year (two Pesachs) The Hidden Treasures Covid-19 Community Archive Project – celebrating Jewish festivals and life cycle events under varying restrictions. one year on by Dawn Waterman

Hidden Treasures; celebrating Jewish archives in Britain, is (currently) an online project from the Board of Deputies of British Jews - at https//celebratingjewisharchives.org and on social media @seethetreasures - celebrating the many archives in this country that tell the story of Jews in Britain. Over 50 archives are featured (national, local, university, Jewish, specialist) and we highlight their ‘treasures’ on social media and at live- streamed events and zoom talks. It’s far from our original plans for 2020/21 but necessity is the mother of invention. As a way of making the project relevant – and capturing an extraordinary moment in time – we developed our own COVID-19 community archive. It doesn’t have a fancy logo – just a working title – but we’ve been collecting digital material – communal notices, synagogue newsletters, WhatsApp messages, photos, adverts – showing how the Jewish community has responded to the pandemic. An article in the Jewish Chronicle (‘Archive to document response’, 10.4.20) appealed for material showing the ‘practical, spiritual, inventive and compassionate ways’ the community has responded to the pandemic and the Jewish public, and our member synagogue and communal bodies, have been sending in digital material.

We now have around 200 items. This includes: the Board of Deputies’s own ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ card offering help with shopping, a photograph of Hager’s shul (the Beth Hamidrash Beth Yissochov Dov) in When the pandemic is past and we return to whatever the new normal looks Golders Green – shut for the first time in 80 years, a synagogue’s prayer for like, social historians will be able to examine this material and draw their Boris Johnson when he was unwell with COVID-19, advice to the strictly conclusions. At first glance, I’d suggest there’s been a shift in tone. Much of Orthodox community in Yiddish on the restrictions on gathering in groups the early material had a frightened ‘How will we manage this?’ tone. As the 17 year wore on, the material showed the community’s increased confidence and Some of the books have very personal inscriptions. Roth 520, a Jewish liturgy said ‘Here’s how we’ll manage this’. (1771?), has a list of S. Valentine’s children, born in the 19th century, and As lock down eases - for the last time, we hope - and life starts up again, we're Roth 111, Torah (1631) lists Fortunata Olivetti Nutta’s (d.1878) children. looking back at the material we have collected, cataloguing it, and trying to The bookseller’s label of Louis Lamm Boekhandel of Amsterdam is in Roth make sense of the UK Jewish community’s part in a strange and tumultuous 768, Le stolte dottrine de gli Ebrei con la loro confutaione (1640). Louis time in world history. Lamm (1871-1943) was a successful antiquarian bookseller and publisher who died in Auschwitz. His remaining stock was sold at auction in 1950. Hundreds of rare Hebrew pamphlets from the Roth Collection are yet to Cecil Roth’s rare book collection be catalogued and we plan to start work on this last phase of the project in by Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis and Dr Rachel Eckersley, Special autumn 2021. Collections, University of Leeds

In the BAJS Bulletin 2020, Konstanze Kunst wrote about her work to re- catalogue the collection of manuscripts assembled by the historian Cecil A new museum for you and me: Manchester Jewish Museum Roth (1899-1970) and housed in Special Collections at the University of reopens Leeds. Her work was part of a wider project made possible thanks to by Max Dunbar, Chief Executive of Manchester Jewish Museum funding from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Dr Rachel Eckersley has now added copy-specific information to the catalogue records for Roth’s rare book collection of around 1,000 items. The majority bear annotations, ownership inscriptions, inkstamps and bookplates, which reveal usage through generations and across continents. Here are a few examples: On the origin or early establishment of the Jews in England (1787, Roth 178) by John Caley (1763-1834), an English archivist and antiquary with a dubious reputation, is the author’s own annotated copy and has now been reported to ESTC (see N508901) as a unique item; Caley also inscribed another book, Roth 630 De creatione problemata (Amsterdam, 1635). Students' annotations, pentrials and doodles are found on several books, including Hebrew lexicons published during the 17th and 18th centuries. Roth Collection 7, An almanack for the year of Christ, 1699, has lists of debts owing, and books borrowed and lent; Roth Collection 89, A short Hebrew grammar (1773) and Roth Collection 455, a Jewish liturgy published in 1744, contain curious sketches (see our blog 'A fox, a lord, a madman').

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After almost a decade of planning, fundraising and consultations, plus a architect Edward Salomons. global pandemic, we cannot believe we are finally ready to show Manchester In addition to a new exhibition space which will allow visitors to explore the and the world our beautiful new museum. universal themes of journeys, communities and identities, and a new publicly We really accessible collection store, our extension boasts a café and a learning studio feel we have and kitchen where visitors will explore Jewish culture through food whilst something making connections with each other. special and Connecting people is at the heart of the new museum. We are a place to unique to experience and explore how we are different, together. We connect Jewish share with stories to the world and to our society, in order to explore both our differences everyone. and similarities, and to celebrate that which makes people unique, and that Our newly which connects us all. In doing so we look to spark reaction and change and restored 1874 to make real the knowledge that there is more that binds us together than Portuguese separates us. and Spanish Grade II* We will use our collection, building and programme to boldly explore and listed combine educational, cultural and artistic experiences to encourage those synagogue is with whom we come into contact to feel and believe we are all better together. a rare gem We make connections to make things better. and living artefact telling the story of Jewish migration to Manchester from the late 19th century. It has been sensitively integrated with our new Manchester Jewish Museum reopens seven days a week from Friday 2 July contemporary 2021 following a major capital development redesign and extension. Visit extension, www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com for more information. designed by architects Citizens Book launch of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Design Holocaust Bureau who by David Tollerton

were inspired th by our Thursday 29 April 2021 saw the Wiener Library host an online book launch synagogue’s for The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust, edited by Tom original Lawson and Andy Pearce. Moorish architecture by Victorian

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The book is a 23-chapter speakers’ comments was criticism of the extent to which the Holocaust can survey of Britain’s various be publicly framed in a way that is ultimately reassuring for a British relationships with the audience. Presented as a crime committed by Britain’s foes, awkward Holocaust from the 1930s questions about the historic experiences of Jews on these shores are to the present. Early parts habitually side-lined. Lawson highlighted additional questions about the of the book consider comparative difficulties of Britain engaging with its colonial legacies, British fascism, refugee Critchell highlighted the complications of intertwining Holocaust memory policy, and wartime with notions of ‘British values’, and Bloxham asked whether the state is able knowledge of the to adequately lead remembrance of an atrocity that itself poses challenges for Holocaust, with later thinking about state power. Rosen’s comments at the book launch took a sections devoted to a rich different line, stressing that alongside this recent history of state-led array of responses to the commemoration there is also a very distinct lineage of memory conveyed Holocaust. This includes more privately through Jewish families in Britain. screen and literary The rapid evolution of Britain’s public Holocaust memory over recent representations, museum decades means that this new Palgrave handbook, despite its extensive scope, spaces, Holocaust cannot be the last word on the subject, especially given the contentious education in schools, and mixture of memory, politics, and ideas of national identity. However, it the interconnections represents the most comprehensive survey of the topic to date, and the April between Holocaust 2021 book launch event highlighted the vital and ongoing debates that memory and legacies of characterise this field. colonialism. All of this is considered against a News from the Parkes Library and Anglo-Jewish Archives backdrop in which public attention on the Holocaust by Jenny Ruthven and Karen Robson has grown hugely more prominent in Britain since Like most academic libraries, the University of Southampton Library has 1990s, something especially in the public eye at the moment because of been operating with reduced capacity this year owing to the COVID-19 debates concerning the proposed memorial and learning centre next to the restrictions which have meant that access to the Parkes Library has been Houses of Parliament. But as several contributors note, even during the limited to the University’s staff and students who are able to book study current century the Holocaust’s meaning and importance has shifted as spaces and browsing slots. government language of multiculturalism has moved more toward discourses of ‘British values’. With so many students studying remotely, the Library has been increasing its At the book launch, the editors were joined by chapter contributors, Hannah offer of e-books and other e-resources. Newly acquired resources include Holtschneider and Kara Critchell, and two respondents, the historian Donald Prosecuting the Holocaust: British Investigations into Nazi Crimes, 1944- Bloxham and author Michael Rosen. A recurring theme through many of the 1949 (British Online Archives), the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust 20

Testimonies for which the Library has become an access site and the USC Throughout the Archives and Manuscripts has maintained an enquiry and Visual History Archive collection which contains more than 54,000 research support service, opening its reading rooms for visits as restrictions eyewitness testimonies. have permitted. We have been open again since April and details of the current service can be found on the website. Whilst acquiring collections was interrupted during the lockdown, the Archives took possession in June 2020 of a sizeable additional collection of papers relating to Norwood, the Hospital and Orphan Asylum, and quite recently have moved in the archives of Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, who was Principal of Leo Baeck College, London.

The development of online resources was a focus of the work of both the Library and Archives during lockdown. Highlights of the last physical Special Collections exhibition of 2020 We Protest! including material on 20th-century protest and pressure groups – such as the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry – featured in blogs opposition to fascism in the 1930s; and campaigns for change. In the autumn 2020 we created an online exhibition Voyages of Discovery featuring material on James Parkes and Eugene Heimler.

News from the British Library’s Hebrew Section By Ilana Tahan, Lead Curator Hebrew & Christian Orient Collections, email: [email protected] The Coronavirus global pandemic has challenged and continues to relentlessly challenge academic, cultural, and social institutions on many fronts. Since the beginning of 2020, while constantly seeking mitigating solutions and creative ways to counteract the harsh reality, libraries have religiously safeguarded the health and safety of personnel and users, which have been and remain paramount. The last year has seen all of us make radical changes in our work in order to adapt to a ‘new normal’. Despite great many obstacles, chief among them loss of access to the physical James Parkes at Oxford, 1921 (from the collections of the Anglo-Jewish Archives, collections, libraries and their committed workforce have nonetheless MS60/34/6/1/2) succeeded in continuing to disseminate information and knowledge, and in keeping users and researchers engaged. This would have been practically

21 impossible without the technological developments libraries and their resourceful staff have increasingly availed themselves in recent decades. During the pandemic year one of our main goals has therefore been to utilize technology to promote and facilitate access to the Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word exhibition. This beautifully designed and stimulating exhibition brought together 44 objects including 39 manuscripts from the outstanding, wide-ranging British Library’s Hebrew collection.

Or 16942 – Decorated Ketubah (marriage contract). Calcutta, India, 1881

Scheduled to open to the public on 20 March 2020, the exhibition had to be postponed due to the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. After several national lockdowns and sporadic openings throughout 2020, it re-opened to visitors Or 9872, f. 14r – Human hand used as visual aid to perform calendrical on 18 May 2021, calculations. Joseph ben Shem Tov ben Yeshu’ah Hai, She’erit Yosef (Joseph’s closing finally on 6 Legacy). Tlemcen, Algeria, 1804. June.

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Despite its rather modest number of artefacts, the exhibition has imparted extraordinarily powerful messages: • the magnitude of written culture as the bond connecting Jewish communities from all parts of the globe • the centrality of and script linking Diaspora Jews, and documenting their experiences • the living proof of the centuries-long culture, history, and traditions of the Jewish people • high points and signs of conflict, as well as exchanges of ideas and knowledge in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in the communities they lived in

Digital aids have been instrumental in reaching out and bring the Hebrew Manuscripts exhibition to the attention of national and international audiences. Blogs about specific manuscripts on display, media interviews and podcasts, social media threads (Twitter & Facebook), as well as numerous virtual Private Views and online curatorial presentations, have been useful digital tools abundantly employed in the past 14 months. Thanks to a generous grant from The Polonsky Foundation we have also developed a 3D virtual tour of the exhibition which is accessible at the following link: https://v21artspace.com/hebrew-manuscripts-journeys-of-the-written-word We have additionally created a virtual tour for people with visual impairments due to be launched in the coming weeks. Notwithstanding the harsh difficulties posed by the pandemic year, the Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word exhibition has been a great success and a memorable celebration of the British Library’s remarkably rich and matchless Hebrew collection.

IO Islamic 3679, f. 107v – Page in coloured inks from Moses Maimonides’ Dala’lat al- ha’iri’n (Guide for the Perplexed). Earliest known copy dated by the scribe in the original Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script). Tawila, Yemen, 1380. 23

(Universidad Complutense de Madrid) from 2006 to 2010, Aurora Salvatierra Letter from Spain Ossorio (Universidad de Granada) from 2010 to 2014, and currently Mariano This is the continuation of a series of miniature portraits of our Gómez Aranda (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) from 2014 counterparts on the European mainland, each of which has its own to 2022. history and special character. From 2003 until present the AEEHJ has regularly organized an annual

conference (called “Simposio anual”) together with the annual members’ Asociación Española de Estudios meeting. The number of participants in the conferences have increased Hebreos y Judíos (AEEHJ) considerably each year. The places of our conferences are always chosen by Mariano Gómez Aranda, from the historical cities associated with the existence of Jewish quarters in President of the AEEHJ the Middle Ages. Segovia, Ávila, Gerona, Cáceres, Tudela, Lucena or Toledo The AEEHJ is a non profit are only a few of the cities in which our conferences took place. Our next organization, whose aims are to Annual Conference will be held in Málaga in September, 9-11, 2021. promote research and teaching in In our conferences, special priority is given to the doctorate students who the field of Hebrew and Jewish want to present in public the progress of their research. The students then Studies, to organize scientific have the opportunity to discuss with experts on all the aspects of their meetings, to foster encounters of dissertations. A significant number of scholarships is offered to students to researchers from different participate in the AEEHJ conferences. countries, and to facilitate the contacts between our association and other In 2014 an e-mail distribution list of the members of our association was similar associations all over the world. It has now around 120 members, created to announce all kind of activities related to Jewish studies. A similar mostly teachers, students and researchers in the field of Jewish studies not distribution list of the presidents of the European national associations of only from Spain but also from other countries. Jewish studies was created with the aim of announcing our activities. The AEEHJ was created in 1997, and one of its first objectives was to In 2020 the web page of the AEEHJ has been renovated with a new look: collaborate in the organization of the international conference of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), whose President at those https://aeehj.net/ times was the late professor Ángel Sáenz-Badillos (Universidad Complutense From its beginnings, the AEEHJ has been financing a significant number of de Madrid). activities in the field of Jewish studies organized by members of our In 1998, the AEEHJ invited Amos Oz to present his recent novels together association. with his Spanish translator, Raquel García Lozano. Amos Oz would later receive the prestigious Príncipe de Asturias Prize as a recognition for his contribution to Hebrew literature. The Presidents of the AEEHJ were: Luis Girón Blanc (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) from 1997 to 2002, Miguel Pérez Fernández (Universidad de Granada) from 2002 to 2006, Luis Vegas Montaner

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and to celebrate the posthumous publication of his study of Disappointment: Remembering Colleagues Its Modern Roots from Spinoza to Contemporary Literature (2021). Speakers ‘A Gift for Reading Reality’: Remembering Michael Mack, by Mark Sandy and attendees included Gillian Beer, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Sander L. Gilman, Elizabeth Millan, and Haaris Naqvi. There can be no doubt that the loss of (Durham University) Michael’s formidable intellect (and forcible charm) has reverberated widely. News of Michael Mack’s untimely death, Michael Mack was born in Germany on 23 August, 1969 and grew up in late last summer, led me to reminisce fondly Römerberg. Michael was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he about our first encounter. By chance completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies. Michael’s first book, Michael was framed in my office doorway Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti and Franz Baerman Steiner’s when he accepted – via a call on his mobile Responses to the Shoah (Niemeyer, 2001), developed out of his doctoral phone held in one hand and a takeaway thesis. The concern of this book with the interstices of anthropology, coffee in the other – his appointment to philosophy, theology, history, and literature frame, as does the question Durham University. Over the years, the Michael posed at the start of this book –‘Can a literary depiction be more astute yet shambolic figure (often truthful than a historical account?’ – the intellectual ambit of much of his precariously balancing books, shopping subsequent thinking and writing. Michael was a specialist in the relationship bags, mobile phone, and a polystyrene cup) between literature and philosophy, he wrote illuminatingly about Arendt, of Michael became a familiar (and welcome) sight whether framed in my Benjamin, Freud, Heidegger and Spinoza, often in tandem with penetrating office door or emerging from the gloam of Durham city’s cobbled streets. analyses of literary works, for example by Saul Bellow, George Eliot, Henry Presided over by Michael’s mastery of shamanic insight and masterful comic James, Sylvia Plath and Thomas Pynchon. His interests ranged across storytelling, these chance encounters always had a sense of occasion. So comparative literature, cinema (including the films of Pasolini and much so that another of Michael’s friends, colleague, and poet, Michael Hitchcock), and Jewish thought (in particular the legacies of Spinoza’s O’Neill, sadly also no longer with us, was inspired to compose about one of philosophy) and culture, returning to the central preoccupations that his work these random evening conversations on a Durham street. In Michael sought to address, namely the constraints individuals face, and the O’Neill’s ‘Ash-Wednesday’, Michael Mack (to whom the poem is dedicated) possibilities for art, in modernity. emerges ‘bearing a coffee / like a gift for the gods of the twilight’ and with the capacity to ensure the ‘rum pair [are] jokily / redeemed by irony and Michael did not settle for any easy sense that the arts restore our sense of anecdote’ through the serio-comic ritual of their exchange in the fading well-being, but instead that they have the power to call into question the remnants of day. fallacies by which we live and so bring us closer, for better or worse, to the precise nature of the modern human condition. These concerns are at the fore With Michael Mack’s demise such moments are irretrievably lost, but the of two previous and important books that Michael published both with poignancy of their wit, irony, humour, warmth, humanity, as well as Bloomsbury, Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging Our Michael’s courageous delight in the glories and disappointments that life Infatuation with Numbers (2014) and How Literature Changes the Way We affords us all, will indelibly remain with me and his many colleagues in Think (2012). These interests in the instructive role that literary and filmic Durham and elsewhere in the world. A measure of the extent and depth of representations play in providing a critique of long-held assumptions in this grief can be gauged from the international attendees at an evening hosted Western Philosophy culminated in Michael’s study of Contaminations: in Durham, on 28 January 2021, held in honour of Michael’s life and work 25

Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science, and Film (Edinburgh BAJS Outreach Project: Resources for Teaching University Press, 2016). Jewish Studies in Schools and Colleges Prior to these three major book-length studies, Michael explored what he understood as the ‘hidden Enlightenment’ of the legacies of Spinoza’s thought in the writings of Herder, Goethe, Rosenzweig, and Freud to reject, As part of the project to promote Jewish Studies in schools and colleges, we what he saw, as the divisive and destructive dominance of traditional are currently assembling teaching resources to be made publicly accessible Enlightenment values of autonomy, reason, and telos. Alternatively, Michael on the website and advertised through professional teaching association advocated, in Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden newsletters. Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud (Bloomsbury, 2010), Spinoza’s bequest of a principle of interconnection within (and between) the The goal is to help secondary school teachers to identify areas where they human and natural spheres. Michael’s fascination with Jewish thought, could reintegrate Jewish Studies into the current curriculum in subjects culture, and history had culminated in an earlier study of German Idealism including, but not limited to, English, History and Religious Studies. and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses (University of Chicago Press, 2003), which was shortlisted for The If you have teaching resources you would like to include in these packs or if Koret Jewish Book Award in 2004. you would like to contribute to this project or know someone who would, please contact the current BAJS studentship holder, Susannah Rees The vast scope, subtlety, and ambition of Michael’s intellectual ([email protected]). achievements were justifiably acknowledged by the many international awards he accrued. Michael was a Visiting Professor at Syracuse University, a Fellow at the University of Sydney, and Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Chicago, and the recipient of two Leverhulme Research PGR/ECR Network: News and Updates Fellowships (2012-13; 2019-20). Previously, he had won a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in 2007. Having held a lectureship in the Department of by Katharina Keim (Lund University and University of Manchester) Theology at Nottingham University, Michael was appointed as an Associate [email protected] Professor (Reader) in the Department of English Studies at Durham This last academic year has been an unusual one for all of us, and especially University, where he worked for ten years from 2010 until his death. so for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers (PGR/ECRs) among the Michael died on 21 August, 2020 at his family home in his native Germany. society’s membership. Most (if not all) of our PGR/ECR members have faced He was survived by his beloved mother and artist, Elisabeth Mack- disruption to their research and teaching, and together with our other Usselmann, until her death on 28 December, 2020. Plans are already contingent colleagues have faced extra stresses that have affected them underway to establish a Mack Foundation to preserve his mother’s artistic especially. These include greater isolation from the day-to-day life of their achievements and to honour Michael’s scholarly accomplishments and home departments and wider academic networks through the sharp reduction legacy. Michael is much missed for his penetrating intellect and humane of interpersonal contact and support as a consequence of teaching, research presence by colleagues and students alike at Durham University, in the wider seminars, and conferences moving online. Unestablished colleagues have academy, as well as by a global community of scholars. found themselves even more vulnerable as they navigate the funding landscape and job market without the kinds of support they may have

26 benefitted from otherwise, and have similarly experienced challenges in Brooke, George J. “Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Brill Encyclopedia of Early terms of establishing international collaborations due to more limited Christianity Online. Ed. by David G. Hunter, Paul J.J. van Geest, Bert Jan opportunities to present their research in the usual forums. Those who Lietaert Peerbolte. Leiden: Brill, 2020. experience disability and/or long-term medical conditions as well as those Brooke, George J. “Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the with caring responsibilities have been hit especially hard, and this risks Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets: On Prayer and impacting the future diversity of our disciplines if not addressed from the Praying in Second Temple Judaism. Ed. by Timothy J. Sandoval, Ariel ground up. The BAJS committee has noted in its January meeting the Feldman. Pages 115-130. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche publication of a report by DeGruyter published in December 2020 (“Locked Wissenschaft 524. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020 Down, Burned Out: Publishing in a Pandemic: the Impact of Covid on Academic Authors”) that highlighted the particular challenges facing Brooke, George J. “Esoteric Wisdom Texts from Qumran,” Journal for the PGR/ECRs, as well as the imbalance between how these affected people of Study of the Pseudepigrapha 30/2 (2020) 101-114. different genders and backgrounds. This year’s PGR/ECR event as part of the Brooke, George J. “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Comparisons," Semitica 62 BAJS Conference will focus on a broad-ranging discussion of these issues (2020) 243-266. and will lead to the development of activities and forums through the society seeking to address the changing needs of our early career members. Brooke, George J. “Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in Oxford: Past, Present and Future," Revue de Qumrân 32/2 (2020) 177-193. The society continues to run our PGR/ECR Mentorship Programme that seeks to offer support to our early career members by pairing them with a Langton, D., 2020 Reform Judaism and Darwinism: How Engaging with more established colleague outside of their usual supervision team. The Evolutionary Theory Shaped American Jewish Religion. Berlin: De Gruyter. mentorship arrangement takes place over the course of a year with ISBN 9783110664119 opportunity for extension and is intended to provide one-to-one career Brauner, David. Howard Jacobson. Manchester University Press, development support through up to four meetings during the period. We 2020. ISBN 9781526101495 encourage our PGR/ECR members to complete our application form to be matched with a mentor. If you have any questions about the scheme, or about https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526101495/howard-jacobson/ anything else connected to your experience as a PGR/ECR member of BAJS, Brauner, David. 'Representations of Shylock in Arnold Wesker’s The please contact me at [email protected]. Merchant, Howard Jacobson’s Shylock is My Name and Clive Sinclair’s Shylock Must Die'. Humanities, 10 (2). p. 59. ISSN 2076-0787 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/2/59/htm Selected Publications of BAJS Members This list includes information received. The editors are unable to undertake the Ewence, Hannah. ‘When they Get to the Border’, History Today, vol. 70, necessary research for a comprehensive listing. Please send us your publications! issue 12 (December 2020), https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history- Brooke, George J. “Isaiah in the Qumran Scrolls.” In The Oxford Handbook matters/when-they-get-border of Isaiah. Ed. by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. Pages 429-50. Oxford: Oxford Fligg, David, 'These were good times: 'The Poplar Tree' on the edge of war', University Press, 2021. in Torso eines Lebens Der Komponist und Pianist Gideon Klein (1919-

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1945), ed. by Albrecht Dümling, (Neumünster: von Bockel Verlag, 2021), 2020) - https://brill.com/view/journals/fasc/9/1-2/article- pp.53-57. p221_221.xml?language=en [open access] Fligg, David, 'Gideon Klein: Geboren am 6. Dezember 1919 in Přerov, Koffman, David S., (ed.) No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of gestorben am 27. Januar in Arbeitslager Fürstengrube', in Torso eines Belonging. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Lebens Der Komponist und Pianist Gideon Klein (1919-1945), ed. by https://utorontopress.com/ca/no-better-home-2 Albrecht Dümling, (Neumünster: von Bockel Verlag, 2021), pp.11-26. Langton, Daniel, 2021, ‘Atheism’ in Encyclopedia of Jewish- Fligg, David, ‘Gideon Klein: Discovering the rediscovered’, Journal of Christian Relations. Levine, AJ. & Schäfer, P. (eds.). de Gruyter, Czech and Slovak Music, Vol. 29 (2020), 4-34. Walter GmbH & Co (Accepted/In press) Fligg, David, 'Gideon Klein at 100: A festival and a new biography', Czech Langton, Daniel, 2021, ‘New Testament - Modern Judaism’ Music Quarterly, 20 (2020), 26-32. in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Walfish, B. D., Furey, C. & Römer, T. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co (Accepted/In Frojmovic, Eva, “Disorienting Hebrew Book Collecting”, in Disturbing press) Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures Karkov, edited by Catherine E Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Punctum Langton, Daniel, 2021, ‘Paul of Tarsus - Judaism’ in Encyclopedia of the Books 2020, free open access book at Bible and Its Reception. Walfish, B. D., Furey, C. & Römer, T. (eds.). https://punctumbooks.com/titles/disturbing-times-medieval-pasts- Berlin: de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co (Accepted/In press) reimagined-futures/ Langton, Daniel, 2021, ‘What Is the Relationship Between Judaism and Atheism?’ in Atheism in Five Minutes: Religion in Five Minutes Holtschneider, Hannah, ‘Holocaust representation in the Imperial War Series. Taira, T. (ed.). Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd (Accepted/In Museum, 2000-2020’, in The Palgrave Handbook on Britain and the press) Holocaust, eds Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020, 389-404. Langton, Daniel, Feb 2021, ‘Here be Demons’ in Microlight Flying, 40-41.

Holtschneider, Hannah with Phil Alexander and Mia Spiro: Points of Miller, Michael, “The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem: A Borderline Arrival: A digital resource pack for schools on historical Jewish Case” in The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, ed. immigration to Scotland (https://pointsofarrival.is.ed.ac.uk/) Catherine Bartlett & Joachim Schlor (Forthcoming, Brill 2021).

Koch, Anna, “’But there is always hope in the human heart:’ Italian Jews’ Miller, Michael, “Jewish Practices and Traditions in the Medieval World” search for the deported in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust” and “Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Jewish Traditions” in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, (Autumn 2020) in Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook, ed. Matthias Heiduk et al (Walter de Gruyter, 2021) pp.342-355; pp.818-820. Koch, Anna, “Exile Dreams: Antifascist Jews, Antisemitism and the ‘Other Germany'" in Global Cultures of Antifascism, 1920–2016, a special issue Miller, Michael, “The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem” in Critical of Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (Winter Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements ed. James Crossley 28

& Alastair Lockhart (Panacea Charitable Trust Taylor-Guthartz, Lindsey, ‘Mishlei – Proverbs: Weaving the Web of 2021): www.cdamm.org/articles/ahij. Wisdom’, European Judaism, 54 (Autumn 2021), 45-53.

Pollock, Griselda and Max Silverman (eds), Concentrationary Art: Jean Taylor, Joan E. and David Hay, Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music Life (Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, Leiden: Brill). and the Visual Arts (Berghahn: 2020) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/PollockArt. Taylor, Joan E., ‘Scholars Working in Television: Some Personal Reflections and Advice,’ in Helen K. Bond and Edward Adams (eds.), The Pollack, Griselda, ‘Dreams or Nightmares: The Artworking of Return in Bible on TV (London: T&T Clark, 2020), 106-119. And Europe will be Stunned (2007-11) by Yael Bartana (with Slavomir

Sierakowski)’ in Gil Pasternak (ed.), Visioning Israel-Palestine: Encounters Taylor, Joan E., and Shimon Gibson, ‘Qumran in the Iron Age in at the Cultural Boundaries of Conflict (Bloomsbury Academic: 2020) pp. Comparison, with Cross-Temporal Reflections on the Hasmonean and Early 103-44. Roman Periods,’ in Jennie Ebeling and Philippe Guillaume (eds.), The Prosser, Jay, ‘"This Charnel House of Historic Memories”; Salonica as Site Woman in the Pith Helmet: A Tribute to Archaeologist Norma of Transcultural Memory in the Published Writings of Cecil Roth’, Journal Franklin (Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2020), 177-224. of Transcultural Studies Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019) https://heiup.uni- heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23793 Taylor, Joan E., ‘Gendered Space: Eusebius on the Therapeutae and the Prosser, Jay, “Healing Hands: My Grandfather, Jewish Law and Today's ‘Megiddo Church,’ in Joan E. Taylor and Ilaria Ramelli (ed.), Patterns of Pandemic”, Tablet Magazine, May 2020 Women’s Leadership in Early Christianity (Oxford: OUP, 2021), 290-301. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/healing-hands Prosser, Jay, “Honoring your mother and father in lockdown”, The Jewish Writing Project, June 2020 https://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/honoring- your-mother-and-father-in-lockdown/ Stiebert, Johanna (guest editor), 'Activism in the Biblical Studies Classroom' Journal of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, issue 2/1(2020) https://jibs.group.shef.ac.uk/volume-2/ Stiebert, Johanna, Adriaan van Klinken, Sebyala Brian and Fredrick Hudson, Sacred Queer Stories (James Currey, forthcoming November 2021). Taylor-Guthartz, Lindsey, Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women (2021), The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press, 323 pages 29

The BAJS Committee

PRESIDENT 2020-21 and CONFERENCE ORGANISER: Dr Helen Spurling, History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton. TREASURER: Dr Lindsey Askin, Department of Religion and Theology, University of Bristol. SECRETARY: Dr David Tollerton, Theology and Religion, University of Exeter. BULLETIN EDITORS: Dr Hannah Ewence, Department of History and Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Chester. Prof Yulia Egorova, Department of Anthropology, Durham University. WEB OFFICER: Dr Zuleika Rodgers, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin. SOCIAL MEDIA OFFICER: Dr Ben Gidley, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College. PG/ECR REPRESENTATIVE: Dr Katharina Keim, University of Manchester. STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Susannah Rees, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King’s College London. Dr Andrea Schatz (President-elect 2022), Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King’s College London. Prof James Renton (President-elect 2023), Department of English and History, Edge Hill University Dr Eva Frojmovic (until 2025), Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. Dr Mia Spiro (until 2024), Department of Theology & Religious Studies, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Dr Jaclyn Granick (until 2025), School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES REPRESENTATIVE: Ilana Tahan, British Library.

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