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30 January 2010
Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day
The Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day will take place on the 30th of January 2010.
26 January 2010
Finalist in National Jewish Book Award
The Jewish Book Council has announced that out of its many submissions: "Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'makor" by David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, Milton Shain, eds., has been selected as a finalist in the annual National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.
21 December 2009
Watch this video: The fabric of my being - Simcha Jacobovici at the Parkes Institute
Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, Simcha Jacobovici was filmed when he visited the Parkes Institute.
06 Nov'09 updated
Conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS)
The theme of this year’s BAJS Conference is: ‘The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism’. Call for papers open until 31 May 2010
20 October 2009
Playing History: Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL
The eminent Bafta and Oscar-winning author, playwright and screenwriter will examine the validity of historical plays and films, particularly those dealing with events leading up to World War 2 and the Holocaust.
14 August 2009
Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War
An international two-day symposium is to be held at the University of Southampton on 21 and 22 March 2010 focusing on the various governments-in-exile established in Britain during the war.
22 January 2009
Brazilian Novelist visits Southampton
Novelist Adriana Armony from the Centre for Jewish Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, visits Southampton.
15 January 2009
Book launch for Southampton university history lecturer at the Wiener Library
Dr Neil Gregor, Reader in Modern German History in the School of Humanities, introduced his new book, Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past after 1945 (Yale University Press, 2008) at a packed book launch held at the Wiener Library in London.