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The Institute of Jewish Studies (IJS) at UCL is a research centre dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of Jewish scholarship and civilisation at the highest level of academic excellence.

We are dedicated to our founding principle that there should be no barriers to learning so we make every effort to reach a wide audience through our lecture programmes, conferences, and collaborations with academic institutions in the UK and abroad.

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The Dark Side of Gefilte Fish - Jewish Organizations in the Emerging Jewish Metropolis of Lodz, 1850-1914

Anti-Judaism and Biblical Scholarship

Jewish Noble Death: the Case of the Maccabean Martyrs

The Remarkable Life and Works of Victorian Britain's Greatest Hebraist: Christian David Ginsburg

Ritual Baths (Mikvehs) in Synagogues: Between Law (Halakhah) and Piousness

Jewish Women in the First Feminist Movement

How Much Judaism was there in Roman Palestine?

Jewish Modern Aramaic: the struggle to survive

Writing the Biography of Adolphe Crémieux

Polaks and Litvaks in Britain around 1900

Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Beyond the Bima: Transformations of the Rabbinate in Eastern Ashkenas

From Entrepreneurship to Economic Theory: the Lodz Jewish Experience and the Emergence of Developmentalism

A German (Jew) in Warsaw: the banker Samuel Fraenkel