IJS 2020 Autumn Lecture Series
Of Chicken and Eggs
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Of Chicken and Eggs: Jewish Political Agency in the Context of Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands with François Guesnet (UCL)
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/BDqHY0LUgcpfLEavZXzNXmkycQd2zB6xWGmudAt1-w...
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The Aramaic-speaking
Jews of Iraq and Iran
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Thursday, December 10th, 2020
Lecture by Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) on the Aramaic-speaking Jews who lived in villages and towns in northern Iraq, Turkey and Iran
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/gSfg5b6sloRYWKHO- KIHETa9BX1zyqRxTlU99ZLeoeSv6RZtx_6nMLd71uVtx-mb.c2FCThuy83UW5P-_
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21st-century Ashkenazic Hebrew
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Lily Kahn (UCL) and Sonya Yampolskaya (UCL) discuss Ashkenazic Hebrew-- a unique variety of Hebrew which has a centuries-long history of use
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/n3mXh6FcCQQJDTtiNdKzvVyE79lcu6YHFddu1vjvfA...
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German as a Jewish Problem
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
In his recent book publication German as a Jewish Problem, Marc Volovici (Birkbeck College) explores the multilingual nature of the Jewish national sphere in Central and Eastern Europe, and the centrality of the German language within it. He argues that it is impossible to understand the histories of modern Hebrew and Yiddish without situating them in relation to German. In conjunction with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies.
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/y5DcGXSkRp7IzBBV1GucH43P8cvSJUisHxtaTkSH6E...
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The Munich Talmud: a unique manuscript and its place in Jewish Book History
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Lecture from Judith Schlanger (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) about this 14th century manuscript, one of the most important and intriguing medieval Hebrew works in existence.
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/LB5YL3htfAtn77JPjBWBtiSTPEZ3wpYWC1ZxVQ-fy4...
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Locating Hebrew Rusia: A Problem of Medieval Hebrew Nomenclature
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Thursday, November 19th, 2020
The study of Jewish presence in early Eastern Europe and the problems of medieval nomenclature with Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/QiTl4_jbLZvdZbKeXJzh9exCOStJSaBb7YtyGv9wyb...
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Re-approaching the Babatha archive
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Presented in conjunction with the Anglo Israel Archaeological Society: a lecture on the important Cave of Letters in Israel’s Judean Desert.
Recording link not available.
Pius XII before, during and after the Shoah: a historical issue
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Thursday, November 12th, 2020
A Simon Wiesenthal Memorial Lecture with Alberto Melloni (University of Modena-Reggio)
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/GFWQk_Jz8WGMI4UUFVDBi7G5yUrMwv-z1z8KkMGaTg...
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Budd Schulberg’s endgame
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Thursday, November 5th, 2020
The apprehension of Leni Riefenstahl and holding Nazi film to account, 1945. Michael Berkowitz (UCL)
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/a7889mWR_wNywIF6K8zedMAsGLKGJUUPnPeeVXz-0n...
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The Jews as a Diaspora Nation
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Questioning the negative connotations of "Diaspora" with Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/3ZYYyTAJ35Btw6svR728sNJy86tAXp335RI0vvcwNa...
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Interpreting Collection in the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Hindy Najman (University of Oxford) and Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven). Recently the speakers have become increasingly interested in how the Dead Sea scrolls were produced: who wrote and copied these scrolls and how did they do it – materially and intellectually? Did these Jewish scribes collect texts in one scroll for practical reasons? Does collection reflect a creative growth of traditions? Or were scribes driven by an anthological temper? Should unique combinations of collected texts be regarded as intentional literary productions? This lecture will provide an overview, and discuss some of the rules of these scrolls, such as the limits or unlimitedness of collection.
Recording link: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/Xuadb8DrY-CBIay6_VGBepdA00pWfxw2j_cIb-dYDq...
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