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SHERMAN LECTURES 1998

Bernard Wasserstein on "The Jerusalem Question in International Diplomacy 1798-1998": abstracts

SHERMAN LECTURES 1999

David Patterson on "The Religious Dimension in Modern Hebrew Literature": abstracts

SHERMAN LECTURES 2000

Judith Plaskow on "Contextualising Sex": summaries

SHERMAN LECTURES 2001

Norman Solomon on "Torah from Heaven"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2002

Tony Kushner on "Refugees Then and Now"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2003

Prof. Fred Rosner on "Jewish Medical Ethics in the 21st Century"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2004

Prof. Daniel Sperber on "The Modern Study of Halkhah"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2005

Prof. Barry Kosmin on "Rethinking the Jewish World in the 21st Century"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2006

Dr. Ada Rapoport-Albert on "Women in Jewish Mysticism"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2007

Dr. Gadi Ben-Ezer on "Ethiopian Jews Encounter Israel: Social, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives of the Immigrant and Refugee in Society"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2008

Prof. Melissa Raphael-Levine on "A Post-Holocaust Theology of Jewish Art"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2009

Prof. Sander Gilman on "Confronting the Present in the Past: German Jewish Exiles in London 1933-1950"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2010

Prof. Bernard Jackson on "Halakah, Inheritance and the 'Heritage of Israel'"

SHERMAN LECTURES 2011

Prof. Martin Goodman on "Toleration within Judaism"

EXTRA-MURAL LECTURES 1998-99

Abstracts/Transcripts 

EXTRA-MURAL LECTURES 2000

Abstracts/Transcripts

EXTRA-MURAL LECTURES 2002

Bernard Jackson, 'Agunah: The Halakhic Sources'

CONTINUING EDUCATION 2003

Jeremy Michelson and Clive Gilbert, 'Two centuries of Russian Jewry' and Frank Adam 'Israel'

CONTINUING EDUCATION 2004

Frank Adam, 'A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict'

CONTINUING EDUCATION 2005

Jeremy Michelson, 'The History of the Jews in the Middle Ages', Michael Tunnicliffe, 'Five Hebrew Scrolls' and Frank Adam, 'A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict'

CONTINUING EDUCATION 2006

Frank Adam, 'A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict', Clive Gilbert, ' Russian Jewry 1800-1917', and Jeremy Michelson,'The Holocaust - A World Tragedy''

CONTINUING EDUCATION 2007

Frank Adam, 'The Arab Israel Conflict: A History with Complexities' and Ya'akov Wise, 'Piety, Poverty and Persecution; A Radical New Look at Anglo-Jewish History 1880-1980'

ONE DAY CONFERENCE

Report on on Manchester and Zionism: The Community, the University and the State of Israel (October 21st 1998)

INAUGURAL LECTURE

Professor Jackson on "An Academician's View of Jewish Law", November 18th 1998 (full text)

LIMMUD DAY 2000

Abstracts/Transcripts

MMU LECTURE SERIES 2001

MMU Lectures on 'Jews in Society' (April-May 2001)

SOUTHPORT REP COUNCIL 2001-02

Lecture series: 'Us and Them: Jewish Identity, Ancient and Modern'

JEWISH HERITAGE AT RYLANDS (DAY CONFERENCE 2002)

Programme

RABBINICS SEMINARS

On the Chief Rabbi's essay

RESEARCH SEMINAR ABSTRACT 2004

Shlomo Sela, "The Secularisation of the Holy Tongue"

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