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Watch on-demand until 30 September 2023 |
BBC iPlayer |
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Being Jewish in Scotland
Scotland’s Jewish community dates back as far as the 1700s. Small in number until the late 1800s, it grew to around 20,000 during the 1930s and 1940s, with the last phase of immigration driven by the flight before and during World War Two. Then, as now, there are Jewish people living in every local authority of the country. The population remains vibrant but has shrunk to around 6,000. This programme tells their story through a series of intimate, contemporary portraits.
Click here to watch |
28 September
7.00–8.30pm |
Zoom |
fionafrank@gmail.com |
UK Jewish Communities:
Cutting Our Carbon Footprint
Board of Deputies of British Jews
and
EcoJudaism
An opportunity to learn from representatives of EcoSynagogue award-winning representatives about practical steps they have taken to reduce carbon emissions.
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15 October
8pm |
Edinburgh
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A Small Town in Ukraine:
Krakowiec and the Storm of History
Bernard Wasserstein
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Decades ago, Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of Krakowiec – ‘a little place you've never heard of’. This shtetl, forty miles west of Lviv, was where his family originated. His new book traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict.
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22 October
time tbc |
Glasgow
venue tbc |
0141 638 6411
demi@scojec.org |
Klezmer Concert
Save the date!
Full details and booking information
will be available shortly |
22 October
12pm |
Glasgow
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Does Remembering the Holocaust
Make a Difference?
Olivia Marks-Woldman
Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
Olivia Marks-Woldman OBE has been Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust since 2012, overseeing Holocaust Memorial Day. HMD is now marked in thousands of organisations around the country, with support from the Royal Family, Prime Minister and senior faith leaders of all major UK religions.
Click here to book |
26 October
7.00–8.30pm |
Zoom |
fionafrank@gmail.com |
UK Jewish Communities:
Cutting Our Carbon Footprint
Board of Deputies of British Jews
and
EcoJudaism
An opportunity to learn from representatives of EcoSynagogue award-winning representatives about practical steps they have taken to reduce carbon emissions.
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29 October
8pm |
Edinburgh
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Hebrew manuscripts in Edinburgh
Adam Cohen
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Although they constitute a miniscule percentage of the Centre for Research Collections holdings, handwritten Hebrew manuscripts in both institutions offer a fascinating glimpse into the history of Jewish literary and artistic culture as well as something of the history of Jews in Scotland. Adam Cohen will introduce these materials which span over seven hundred years from the fourteenth to the twentieth century.
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5 November
7.30 |
Glasgow
Eastwood Theatre |
0141 577 4956
BoxOffice@erculture
andleisure.org |
The Elton John Experience
Cosgrove Care
Return of Cosgrove Care's popular tribute concert night. This year, Cosgrove bring “Elite Elton”, a tribute act with an uncanny resemblance in voice and looks to Sir Elton John.
Click here to book |
12 November
10.00 |
Glasgow
and
Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue |
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AJEX Armistice Day March,
Wreath-Laying Ceremony,
and Service of Remembrance
The Annual Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Servicewomen Armistice Day March to the Memorial at Mearns Cross and Wreath-Laying Ceremony will be followed by a Service of Remembrance at Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue. |
12 November
2.00–4.00 |
Glasgow
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0141 332 4911
info@sjac.org.uk |
Scottish Jewish Archives Centre Open Day
SJAC’s diverse collections include old Synagogue minute books and registers, membership lists, photographs, oral histories, testimonies, annual reports of communal organisations, books of Scottish Jewish interest, friendly society regalia, personal papers, war medals, ceremonial keys, newspapers, magazines, trophies, plaques, paintings and sculptures, immigration and naturalisation papers, passports and correspondence. The Archives Centre also houses the Family Tree of Scottish Jewry database of over 100,000 Scottish Jews.
Booking information will be
available shortly
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12 November
8pm |
Edinburgh
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Judeo-Persian literature
in the period 1317-1340 CE
David Gilinsky
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
David Gilinsky will focus on three genres:
Tafsir – translations of the Torah into vernacular Judeo-Persian.
Masnavi – original epic poetry – written (50 years before Chaucer) by a poet whose pen name was Shahin, and who is associated with the city of Shiraz.
Talmudic Dictionaries – a dictionary written for Talmudic scholars, explaining difficult Hebrew and Aramaic words in Judeo-Persian.
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29 November
3–4pm |
Edinburgh
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Makars Make Muzik
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society,
Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre,
Jewish Studies Network
What does it mean to be Jewish in modern Scotland? Poets David Bleiman and Ellen Galford explore their Jewish heritage and a common yearning for the lost Yiddish of their grandparents’ generation. Helped by the klezmorim Phil Alexander and Rowan Bayliss Hawitt, the pair seek answers in words and music.
Booking details will be available shortly |
10 December
time tbc |
Glasgow
venue tbc |
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Community Chanukah Event
Full details will be
available shortly |
17 December
8pm |
zoom |
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John Lahr in conversation with Elaine Samuel on his recent biography
Arthur Miller: American Witness
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
John Lahr knew Arthur Miller as well as many of his collaborators, so he looks at Miller very much from the perspective of a theatrical insider, and will address some some of the areas that he found most fruitful to explore in his new biography.
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14 January 2024
8pm |
Edinburgh
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Jews and Judaism and the environment
Ulrich Loening and Natan Levy
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
The Judeo-Christian tradition is often blamed for its anthropocentric view that humans were created to rule over and exploit the rest of God’s creations. Yet, our future depends on us harmonising our activities with the workings of nature. We will discuss how this can be achieved and what shelter – if any – Jewish text and tradition can offer against this coming storm.
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11 February
8pm |
Edinburgh
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Antisemitism and the Left: The French Case in the Thirties and Forties
Daniel Lines
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
The history of antisemitism and the Left in France has its roots in the 19th Century and the issue continues to be alive today, as some sections of the French Left refuse to face it when it involves acts or speeches by members of the Muslim or Black African Communities.
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14 April
8pm |
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Saving Israel from herself: fighting the occupation and the government
David Shulman
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
David Shulman is an Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a philologist and cultural historian He is also a long-term activist in Ta'ayush, an Israeli peace group working in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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5 May
8pm |
Edinburgh
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Jewishness and equality law in the UK
Martin Chamberlain
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Martin Chamberlain will use UK case law to examine how the law understands Jewishness and Jewish religious practice. Why are Jews and Sikhs, but not Muslims or Christians, protected by the prohibition on race discrimination? What does this tell us about the common misconception that antisemitism is not (really) racism? How does UK jurisprudence compare to that of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU on the place of religion in the public square? How does the prohibition on sex discrimination affect Jewish, Muslim and other schools?
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