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Middle East Centre
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Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective

Professor Avi Shlaim gives the George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023, examining the Jewish exodus from Iraq in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and arguing the Zionist movement played an active part in the uprooting of Iraqi Jews.
Israel Studies Seminar
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Amnon Aran - Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War

Amnon Aran maps the development of Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War
Israel Studies Seminar
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Michael Karayanni - Religion and State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: A Multicultural Entrapment

Michael Karayanni considers how the Israeli construction of religion and politics shapes the live Palestinian-Arabs in the state.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

The Holocaust, Narrative and Remembrance - Part Two

Part 2/2. Workshop with Prof Dan Stone (RHUL), Paul Salmons (the IOE's Centre for Holocaust Education) and Prof Mark Roseman (Indiana University).
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

The Holocaust, Narrative and Remembrance - Part One

Part 1/2. Workshop with with Prof Dan Stone (RHUL), Paul Salmons (the IOE's Centre for Holocaust Education) and Prof Mark Roseman (Indiana University).
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Saul Friedländer: Trends in the historiography of the Holocaust

Professor Saul Friedländer delivers a lecture as the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Conclusion to Crossing Borders

The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Sciences

Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography

Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use

Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production

Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

From Roll to Codex

Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Introduction to Crossing Borders

An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.

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