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Leiden Jewish Studies Network convenes 'Care and the Jewish Experience Conference'04 February 2026Building off the success of the 'Jews at Home' conference in December 2023, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network convened its second conference 'Care and...
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Leiden Jewish Studies Network awards second 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies'19 December 2025This November, Leiden Jewish Studies Network has presented the Best Thesis in Jewish Studies award to a highly talented Leiden graduate, Lotte-Sofie G...
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Elisheva Baumgarten delivers conference keynote at 'Care and the Jewish Experience'15 December 2025On Tuesday, September 16, Professor Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University) delivered the keynote speech entitled 'The Kindness of Others: Jews, Chris...
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Book Manuscript Conference welcomes eight international scholars to the Netherlands15 December 2025On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Prof.dr. Sarah Cramsey convened a book manuscript event at the beach of Wassenaar near Leiden to discuss her new boo...
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MA students visit the Anne Frank House for a unique visit with a Leiden History MA alumna01 December 2025On Tuesday November 25, 2025, Sarah Cramsey travelled with students from her masters seminar on 'New Approached to the Holocaust in Central and Easter...
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Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi GermanyBook Launch 27 November 2025On Thursday, November 20, 2025, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network celebrated the launch of the book Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (T...
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Nasreen Javanjoo reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference21 November 2025The "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference, organized by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network, hosted many talented young researchers alongside esta...
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies15 November 2025On Friday, November 7, 2025, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network together with the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) and the MA Program...
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Lotte Sophie Groenendijk reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference14 November 2025In September 2025 Leiden University hosted a greatly successful academic conference "Care and the Jewish Experience" organized by the Leiden Jewish St...
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Bridging Disciplines: A Dead Sea Scrolls Study Day with Mladen Popović11 November 2025When asked about the mission of the Leiden Jewish Studies network, Jürgen Zangenberg, Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at Leiden Un...
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Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust ConsciousnessBook Launch 01 March 2025On February 10 2025, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network convened a lively roundtable and catered reception at the Faculty Club to celebrate the launch ...
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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 Studies27 September 2024
Sarah 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 Holocaust17 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' Award15 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 ...