12th December

The Ashkenazi Arab: Jewish European integration in the Middle East Explore the untold story of how European Jews integrated into Arab society in the 19th […]

21st November

Cross purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland with Magdalena Waligórska  Tuesday 21st November 2023 18.00 – 19.00 An online event via Zoom In […]

28th February

Bird Streets with Piotr Paziński, Ursula Phillips, Professor Antony Polonsky and Professor François Guesnet (Chair) Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18.00-19.00 GMT   On the occasion […]

7th February

Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel An in-depth investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel’s cultural and […]

26th January

Safer in Silence The daughter of a World War II refugee looks for the truth of her family’s Polish past in a search that spans […]

23rd January

Body as a Source of Pleasure and Pain around 1900: Female Polish-Jewish Perspectives   with Dr Zuzanna Kołodzejska-Smagała (University of Warsaw)   Hybrid workshop, 23 […]

29th November

Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908): A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil with Professor Mirjam Rajner , Professor  Richard Cohen  Professor François Guesnet (chair) and Professor Antony Polonsky (discussant)   Tuesday, 29 November 2022 […]

9th November

Book Launch: ‘Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland’.  The Yiddish Press in Warsaw and the Rise of National-Socialism in Germany with Dr Anne-Christin Klotz, Professor Antony Polonsky, Professor […]

26th October 2022

The Holocaust & The Exile of Yiddish with Professor Barry Trachtenberg, Dr Sonia Gollance and Professor François Guesnet (Chair) Wednesday 26 October 2022 18.00-19.00 BST […]

19th October 2022

Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish with Professor Moshe Rosman, Professor François Guesnet and Professor Antony Polonsky (Chair) Wednesday 19 October 2022 18.00-19.00 BST     BOOK […]