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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days' 19 November 2024It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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Sarah Cramsey's "Uprooting the Diaspora" wins the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies 27 September 2024Sarah Cramsey's first book, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946, has won the ...
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How the care of children was used as a weapon in the Holocaust 17 June 2024To cover up their deportation plans which targeted Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis re-opened schools. In her inaugural lecture, historian ...
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Meet Louise van der Vlugt, Co-winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award 15 February 2024In December 2023, Louise van der Vlugt was announced as Co-Winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award. She sat down to answer some questions ...
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Meet Max Farasat, Co-Winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award 30 January 2024In December 2023, Mr. Max Farasat (B.A. Religious Studies) was announced as Co-Winner of the "Best Thesis in Jewish Studies" Award. He sat down to ans...
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon, LJSA Member 25 January 2024Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses r...
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Rector Bijl presented the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award at the Leiden Jewish Studies Association first annual conference 19 January 2024On December 6, 2023, Rector Hester Bijl welcomed participants at the Leiden Jewish Studies Association’s First Annual Conference 'Jews at Home: From C...
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member 19 January 2024Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctora...
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important' 27 November 2023The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will ta...
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Meet Prof. dr. Jürgen K. Zangenberg, LJSA Co-Initiator and Member 23 November 2023Prof. Zangenberg came to Leiden in 2006 as Professor for New Testament and Early Christian Literature and is now Chair for the History and Culture of ...
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Special Chair for Central European studies and LJSA Member Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey holds “teach-ins” on the most recent history of Israel/Palestine 21 November 2023
Since the horrific events of October 7, 2023, Leiden students have grappled with difficult questions about Israel, Gaza and Israel/Palestine conflict ...
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Meet Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, LJSA Member 20 November 2023Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Mi...
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member 17 November 2023Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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Call for nominations Jewish Studies Thesis Prize 2023 09 November 2023
The Leiden Jewish Studies Association is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the "Best Thesis in Jewish Studies" produced at Leiden Univers...
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Book Launch for Sarah Cramsey’s Uprooting the Diaspora 23 October 2023On September 20, the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association convened a panel to celebrate the launch of Prof. dr. Sarah A. Cr...