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the ISRAEL STUDIES research seminar
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The Zigzag Kid: Patterns of Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel
Rabbi Michael Hilton (Leo Baeck College, London)
4pm on Thu 5 March in A113, Samuel Alexander Building (Building 67 on the campus map, see directions).
ABSTRACT: Bat Mitzvah in Israel has been in the news with the first public ceremony for a girl with a Torah at the Kotel (the Western Wall). This talk will concentrate on trends in bar/bat mitzvah throughout Israel’s history, including ceremonies for visitors to Israel, and will link these with the history of the whole ceremony.
 SPEAKER: Michael Hilton has been Rabbi of Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community since 2001 and has recently brought out Bar Mitzvah: A History, the first full study in English on the origin and development of both the bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies. Michael is an Honorary Research Fellow of CJS and a Lecturer and Governor, Leo Baeck College, London
Further information about the Israel Studies research seminar programme and other Jewish Studies events at the University. |
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Public Lecture, Manchester Jewish Museum
 Radical Jewish Women. PhD student and local historian Ros Livshin will give a talk about nonconformist Jewish women in Manchester, many of whom joined their non-Jewish sisters in playing an active part in anarchist, communist and anti-fascist movements dating back to the 1900s. 2pm, Sunday 1 March. Entrance free. Refreshments provided. Further information.
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New Publication
 The first feminist-Mizrahi story written in the Middle East in modern Hebrew. Moshe Behar has published an article entitled 'The centennial of 'Flora Saporto': Thoughts on the possibility of a Mizrahi-Feminist alliance' in Pe‘amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry 139-140 (2015), 9-54. Further information.
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Public music event, Martin Harris Centre
 Jewish resistance by music. The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at the University of Manchester is hosting an international conference on the topic of 'Music under German Occupation 1938-1945: Complicity and Resistance'. Jewish Studies related papers include '(Re)visiting the Archive of Gideon Klein – TerezÃn ghetto, 1941-1944' by David Fligg (Leeds), '"Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt": In Search of Ilse Weber' by Mirjam Frankand (NYU), and "Hungarian musical life in the shadow of Nazism" by Agnes Kory (Manchester). Mon 30 March - Wed 1 April 2015. Further information.
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Research seminar
 Religious responses to the Shoah. Thu 26 Feb: Dan Garner, Assessing Post-Holocaust Theologies of Image: Melissa Raphael's Fraught Theology of Divine Powerlessness. 4pm A113, Samuel Alexander Building (Religions & Theology research seminar).
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New Publication
 Early scholarly accounts of antisemitism. Marcel Stoetzler has published an essay entitled 'Moritz Lazarus und die liberale Kritik an Heinrich von Treitschkes liberalem Antisemitismus' [Moritz Lazarus and the liberal critique of Heinrich von Treitschke’s liberal antisemitism] in Hans-Joachim Hahn and Olaf Kistenmacher, eds., Beschreibungsversuche der Judenfeindschaft [Early scholarly accounts of antisemitism] (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2014), 98-120. Further information.
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Public lecture, JHSE
 Jewish Historical Society of England day-conference. Philip Alexander, president of the JHSE is participating in a day-conference on 'Mission and Missionaries among the Jews in 19th Century Europe' with a paper entitled 'Christian Restorationism in Ireland in the Early 19th Century: The Strange Case of Miss Marianne Nevill'. Mon 30 March 2015. Further information.
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Sherman Lectures 2015
 Jewish New Testament Studies. The Sherman Lectures in Jewish Studies 2015 will be given by Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University) on the topic 'Jesus, Judaism and Christianity: Old Prejudices and New Possibilities'. 27-30 April 2015. Further information.
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