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Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 - Conference 11 Jan 2021

ONE-DAY ONLINE CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH VOLUME 33 OF POLIN: STUDIES IN POLISH JEWRY 

Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 

 


 
Published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press
 

Monday January 11th 2021 10am-3.30pm

Organised by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL with JW3 London.
Co-organised and supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, London
This event honours the memory of Ada Rapoport-Albert, who edited the volume with Marcin Wodziński.


Following tremendous advances in recent years in the study of religious belief, this volume adopts a fresh understanding of Jewish religious life in Poland. The contemporary reassessments, with their awareness of emerging techniques that have the potential to extract fresh insights from source materials both old and new, show how our understanding of what it means to be Jewish is continuing to expand. 


Conference convenors: Dr François Guesnet (UCL), Professor Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University/UCL), Professor Marcin Wodziński (University of Wrocław) 


RESERVATION IS ESSENTIAL. CONFERENCE TICKETS £15 


Follow the link for bookings and the full conference programme https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/polin-conference

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