Language Experience for All Programme (LEAP). The further particulars specify, among other requirements, that applicants "must possess near-native command of both Hebrew and English; demonstrate excellent language-teaching skills; and have an educational background appropriate to the delivery of the specified duties. Experience of teaching and assessing advanced Hebrew language skills at tertiary level, in person and online, are essential. Experience teaching in UK higher education and a track record in curriculum development are highly desirable..." Deadline: 29 March 2023. Employment type: F ..read more

Holocaust Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations. Congratulations to CJS honorary research fellow Ion Popa for the renewal of his Gerda Henkel Scholarship (2023-2024) on the topic 'The Holy War: Churches' Counter-Secularism and the Destruction of European Jewry'. He will continue to be based in Manchester for the next year ..read more

Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the Sherman Conversation 2023: ‘Encountering Others, Encountering Ourselves’: Reflexivity and the Jewish Studies Researcher, 4 September 2023. This workshop seeks to explore collaboratively and reflexively our positions as Jewish Studies researchers in relation to the Jewish subjects we study. We invite applications from researchers at all career stages working in Jewish Studies, broadly defined as scholarly engagement with Jewish subjects, past and present.  Further information ..read more

The University Library has purchased access to the Klemperer Online: Tagebücher 1918-1959 database, offering the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemper, which are among the most important sources of 20th century German history.  The German texts feature an extensive commentary and contain over a third more material than the print editions, which were bestsellers at the time of publication.  Further information ..read more

Klezmorim of Manchester.  Richard Fay's Klezmorim will perform at the Klezmer Evening at Hallé at St. Michael's.  7pm - 9pm, Monday 14 November 2022.  Further Information ..read more

Jewish Studies.  Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (University of Manchester) will give the next Sherman Community Lecture entitled "The Jewel in the Crown of Anglo-Jewry? A History of Limmud".  Thursday 6 December 2022 8pm (via Zoom). Further information ..read more

Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies in collaboration with the Department of Drama and Manchester Reform Synagogue are pleased to announce the next Screen & Talk event for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust, an online film series and live-streamed panel discussion with public Q&A, 2-8 February 2023. Chiming with the 25th anniversary of the release of the controversial landmark film Bent (UK / Japan 1997), the five films in this online series explore the predicaments of gay people and Jews during the Holocaust and its aftermath among the postwar gen ..read more

Jewish History. Daniel Langton will give the inaugural annual Sweeting Judeo-Christian History Lecture, organized by the university’s Centre for Catholic Studies. The topic will be 'Darwin's Jews: Evolutionary Theory, Jewish Thought, and Interfaith Relations.' Ushaw College, 6pm on Tue 21 Feb 2023 ..read more

Postgraduate prize. This prize of £100 is awarded annually to the student with 'the highest grade for a master's dissertation in Jewish Studies' at the University of Manchester. It honours the Centre's second co-director Bernard Jackson. For 2022 it was awarded to Kerry McCall (MA in History) for a thesis on 'Negotiating Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Victorian Britain: Case studies in wider literature and the press' (supervisor: Daniel Langton ..read more

Jewish Studies. The University of Manchester is well represented at Limmud Festival 2022, the volunteer-run Jewish learning event running from 23–28 December. Katja Stuerzenhofecker will participate in the panel discussion ‘The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?.' Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz will lead several sessions including a presentation of her recent research as CJS Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Also presenting are CJS and R&T alumni/ae Ariel Abel and Sarah McCulloch, and SALC colleague Noelle Dückmann Gallagher ..read more