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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection
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Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 12
Hello Bluesky! This is the account for the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in @ucllibraries.bsky.social. It's one of the most significant Judaica collections in the UK and supports the only department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in a British university @uclhjs.bsky.social
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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 1d
What are the implications of AI for literary translation?

Please join us for this panel discussion co-hosted by
@seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social and the British-Croatian Society to find out more.

🗓️ 30 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'What are the implications of AI for literary translation?' with an image of an open book.
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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 10d
@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆

We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8

(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 2d
Thinking about postgraduate study at UCL?

Join our online sessions next week to hear directly from our Admissions and Student Funding teams, get practical advice, and ask your questions.

🔗 Register here: https://direc.to/nrPW

#UCLGraduateOpenEvents
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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 2d
The Institute of Education (IOE) Library and Science Library have re-opened with improved study facilities following refurbishments, and improvements have been made to numerous other libraries across campus. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
New shelving in the IOE Library containing a display of books and plants.
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 2d
This week's #NewBooks : Syriac grammar and stories of Ashkenazi and Mizrachi Jews library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot from the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew and Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of As the story goes: funny, strange, and serious stories of Yiddishland's Jews, compiled by Mordekhai Lipson; translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin.
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 13d
Wishing all those celebrating the Jewish festival of Sukkot over the next week a hag sameah (Image: By Gilabrand - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, buff.ly/2isR5G8 )
A lulav and etrog together with a silver etrog case
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 15d
This week's #NewBooks: Hannah Arendt, medieval Castile, and early modern Europe library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Light is sown: the cultivation of Kabbalah in medieval Castile by Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 17d
Wishing all those observing Yom Kippur an easy and meaningful fast and gmar hatimah tovah. Image: part of the Yom Kippur Neilah amidah from a sixteenth century Italian manuscript prayer book @uclspeccoll.bsky.social MS MOCATTA/2
A page of Hebrew manuscript text with the words va-hatom and ve-nehatem enlarged
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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 19d
Get to know our libraries and find your way around them with a self-guided tour. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started/self-guided-library-tours
Students sat around the Flaxman Gallery.
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 17d
Our next seminar will be with the wonderful Anne Irfan's paper on 'Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948' on 28 October. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... or join our mailing list: forms.gle/8JtLfYwH1MYL...
Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948
www.history.ac.uk
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 22d
UCL is not a member but you can still read and download books in the public domain and search copyright restricted books which you can then look for in the library
hathitrust.bsky.social HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 23d
Curious about accessing HathiTrust's 19 million items? What you can download depends on copyright, login, and library affiliation. Visit the Help Center for more info #digitallibraries #trusty: buff.ly/7HYKXhw
Screenshot from HathiTrust Help Center: What You Can Download from the Collection
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 22d
Lots in here about doing the reading, which you can find in ReadingLists@UCL ucl.rl.talis.com
artshumsucl.bsky.social UCL Arts & Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 22d
If you could go back, what would you tell your first-year self? 💡

Our students and graduates share the advice they wish they’d had when starting university.

Watch the video to hear more! buff.ly/usvBqf7
@uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 22d
Looking into using the library? Find out about our study spaces, opening hours, borrowing items, membership and more. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library #WelcomeToUCL
A student entering through library entrance barriers.
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 22d
This week's #NewBooks: Yiddish New York and Italian Jews library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew and Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City by Henry H. Sapoznik
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 23d
. @ucl.ac.uk is looking for talented individuals to join our team of Social Media Content Creators on a casual basis, producing content for UCL’s central social media channels — including TikTok Instagram and YouTube bit.ly/3HGGNCx
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 26d
Wishing everyone celebrating the Jewish New Year a shanah tovah u-metukah
UCL branded graphic. A stylised illustration of a bowl of honey, a pomegranate and apples on the right and text saying 'Happy Rosh Hashanah' on the left.
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · Sep 18
The author of the book “The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A story of Survival” tells a story of how darkness beyond the imagination could never extinguish the light of humanity at its brightest, bravest and best.

8 Oct 2025 8pm
Exact location tbc

£10

www.jhse.org/event-detail...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival | JHSE
www.jhse.org
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Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership @hgrporg.bsky.social · Sep 18
Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social collections!
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JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · Sep 18
We're excited to present you with NGG's academic programme for this winter term! Looking forward to seeing you! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies
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The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · Sep 17
We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!

Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center
A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access
katz.sas.upenn.edu
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 18
UCL staff and students now have access to Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, 1870-2021 from the @eastview.bsky.social Global Press Archive. These include several Arabic newspapers from Israel/Palestine blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejou...
Screenshot of the Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection in Global Press Archive
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 17
Check out this week's #NewBooks library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot from the UCL Hebrew & Jewish subject guide, featuring the cover of Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz Survivor: Interdisciplinary Explorations, by Peter Davies, Hannah Holtschneider, Sheila E. Jelen, Christoph Thonfeld.
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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · Sep 15
Our guides, training and support enable you to develop your information literacy skills. Find out more and make the best use of our libraries. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills #WelcomeToUCL
Students facing each other across the table in the library.
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The Jewish Chronicle @jewishchron.bsky.social · Sep 16
Anyone with Jewish ancestry urged to sign up for BRCA test as deadline looms

www.thejc.com/community/an...
Anyone with Jewish ancestry urged to sign up for BRCA test as deadline looms - The Jewish Chronicle
The BRCA gene mutation greatly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers
www.thejc.com
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 12
Hello Bluesky! This is the account for the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in @ucllibraries.bsky.social. It's one of the most significant Judaica collections in the UK and supports the only department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in a British university @uclhjs.bsky.social
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