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Centre for Jewish Studies, Department of Religions and Theology University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL Tel: 0161-275 3614 Fax: 0161-275 3613 E-mail: cjs@man.ac.uk |
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Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature; Co-Director of
the Centre for Jewish Studies; Fellow of the British Academy.
Research in Second Temple and early Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish
Mysticism, Jewish Bible Interpretation; Major Publications:
Textual Sources for the Study of Judaism (1984),
Serekh ha-Yahad and Two Related Texts (1998);
Targum Canticles: Translation, Introduction and Notes
(2003); Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Mystical
Texts (2005); Targum Lamentations; Translation, Introduction
and Notes (forthcoming). Other recent publications are
on early Jewish demonology and magic, on Jewish mysticism and
its relationship to Christian mysticism, on Midrash and its
relationship to Patristic Bible exegesis, and on Hellenistic
Judaism, particularly the Third Book of Maccabees. 
Rocco Bernasconi is an AHRC Research Associate for the project on the "Typology of Pseudepigraphic and Anonymous Jewish Literature c.200 BCE to 700 CE.”. He graduated from Bologna with a dissertation on Jewish Theological Responses to the Shoah, then took an MA in Jewish Studies in Manchester (with distinction), writing a dissertation on Reasons for Norms in Mishnaic Discourse (published in Melilah and downloadable from 
Rylands
Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of
Manchester. President, British Association for Jewish Studies,
1999; Research in Dead Sea Scrolls and other Literature of the
Second Temple period; Major Publications: Exegesis at Qumran
(1985), Temple Scroll Studies (1989), Women in the
Biblical Tradition (1992), The Dead Sea Scrolls and
The New Testament (2005). Founding editor, Dead Sea
Discoveries.
Honorary Research Fellow; part-time tutor for the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Manchester; Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University, School of Social Sciences. Director of the Manchester Academy of Transpersonal Studies 
Senior
Lecturer in Hebrew Bible; Research in Ugaritic literature and
its relevance for the study of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of
Psalms; Major Publications: Ugarit (1985); Joshua
(1994), Ugarit and the Bible (1994); The Book of
Jeremiah and its Reception (1997), Psalms (2004), ‘Canaanite Gods and Religion’, in B.T. Arnold & H.G.M Williamson (eds), Dictionary of the Old Testament Historical Books ( 2005) 132-142, ‘The Just King: Fact or Fancy? Some Ugaritic Reflections’, in Robert Rezetko, Timothy H. Lim and W. Brian Aucker (eds), Reflection and Refraction: Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 113) (2007) 81-92, 
Holds a lecturership in Holocaust Studies. He is an historian, specialist of the economic aryanization of property during the Holocaust. Graduate of the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon – Sorbonne, he wrote his dissertation on the confiscation of “Jewish- owned” banks in France and the restitution policies in the post-war years. He spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He was an assistant professor at the Institute for Political Sciences in Paris, where he taught a course on Nazism and the Holocaust, a guest professor at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau (Germany) and worked in several research institutions as the Centre Marc-Bloch in Berlin, the United States Holocaust Memorial in Washington D.C, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. His other topics of interest are: consequences of the Holocaust in European politics and diplomacy, history of Alsace since 1870, history of the Jews in France. He is the author of four books, two published in 2003 by Fayard in Paris: Pillages sur ordonnances. L’aryanisation économique des banques et leur restitution à la Libération, 1940-1953 (Looting by decrees. Economic Aryanization of Banks and their Restitution after the Liberation, 1940-1953) describes the looting of banks in France and Des camps dans Paris. Austerlitz, Levitan, Bassano, juillet 1943-août 1944 (Camps in Paris. Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, Juli 1943-August 1944) is the first book on the three little camps for Jews, annexes of the Drancy transit camp. These places, long forgotten by the memory of the period and neglected by the historiography, were also storages for the looted furniture from Jewish homes. His book, published in 2005, deals with the situation made to deportees Resistance fighters in French society: Ami si tu tombes. Les déportés résistants, des camps au souvenir, 1945-2005 (Perrin, 2005). Jean-Marc Dreyfus wrote, together with Jean Samuel, Il m’appelait « Pikolo ». Un compagnon de Primo Levi raconte (He called me « Pikolo ». A Companion of Primo Levi tells his story), published in September 2005 (Robert Laffont, Paris). This book is the autobiography of the Pikolo, a Auschwitz survivor who was a companion of Primo Levi.
Graduated
first in Social Sciences in the University of Sussex where she
went as a mature " early leaver" student. She researched
on Industrial relations in Glasgow and was awarded an MA in
Edinburgh for this work. After working in Adult Education she
was awarded her Ph.D. for research on domestic and industrial
life while holding a research Fellowship at the University of
Keele. For the last five years or so she has returned to her
first enthusiasm for painting and has recently specialised in
the depiction of Biblical and Talmudic themes especially relating
to Jewish religious practice, the Hebrew Bible and the personal
lives and characteristics of Jewish families within it. Her
Omer Calendar illustrated with the plant life of ancient Israel
was exhibited in an international Omer exhibition in the San
Francisco Library through a link to the CJS website. Her
current exhibition of analytical illustrations to the 54 sedra
of Torah was first shown in Keele University Art Gallery. 
Currently
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology and
Honorary Life Fellow (FUK) at The University of Keele. He initially
studied pre-clinical Natural Sciences and Anthropology at Cambridge
but was accepted by Max Gluckman to join him as one of his graduate
students in the first full year of Gluckman's celebrated period
as Foundation Professor of Social Anthropology at the University
of Manchester where he gained an MA (Econ) and a Ph.d. After
research in Wales and a period in Trade Union Education there,
he returned to the Manchester joint Anthropology/Sociology Department
where he eventually became Reader in Sociology and, after three
years secondment at the University of Zambia,he transferred
to Keele as the founding Professor of the two subjects there.
He has specialised in Social Anthropology as applied to Health
since the 1970s. His current research is on the twentieth century
role of Jews as, exemplars and existential practitioners of
being "strangers within the gates" in Southern Africa, China
and Wales. 
Professor Emeritus in Government; has written on Marxism, and
the Holocaust, and is currently working on the concept of 'crimes
against humanity'. Major Publications include: The Legacy
of Rosa Luxemburg (1976); Marx and Human Nature
(1983); Literature of Revolution (1986); Discourses
of Extremity (1990); Solidarity in the Conversation
of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty
(1995); The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy
after the Holocaust (1998).
Professor
of Semitic Studies; Research in Aramaic and Syriac; Semitic
epigraphy; Ugaritic; Hebrew Bible; Publications include books
on Syriac language, the early history of the alphabet, Nabataean
Aramaic inscriptions (including The Religion of the Nabataeans:
a conspectus (E. J. Brill 2001) and Leshono Suryoyo:
first studies in Syriac (Gorgias Press 2005); articles
on Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac philology and epigraphy.
Honorary
Research Fellow; Rabbi of 
Alliance
Professor of Modern Jewish Studies; Co-Director of the Centre.
Research in the History and Philosophy of Jewish law and its
Modern Application including the problem of the agunah:
Major Publications include: Theft in Early Jewish Law (1972); Essays in Jewish and Comparative Legal History (1975); Semiotics and Legal Theory (1985); Making
Sense in Law (1995); Making Sense in Jurisprudence (1996); Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law (2000); Wisdom-Laws. A Study of the Mishpatim of
Exodus 21:1-22:16 (2006); Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament (2007); Editor, The Jewish Law
Annual , 1978-97; (with others) Introduction to the
History and Sources of Jewish Law (1996). For full publications
list, click 
Senior
Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University; lectures on sociology,
development studies and sociology of 'race' and ethnicity.
She led one research project, 'Ethnicity and Gender in Degree Attainment: An Extensive Survey of Views and Activities in English HEIs' and participated in another, the Intensive Review of HEIs, as part of the Higher Education Academy [HEA's] and the Equality Challenge Unit's wider project on this topic (funded by DIUS), in 2007. Publications with material on antisemitism and other racisms
include a chapter on Zimbabwe and the formation of ethnicities
in D. Stasiulis and N. Yuval-Davis: Unsettling Settler
Societies , 1995; co-editor (2000) States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance ; Jacobs
with Hai (2002) "Issues and Dilemmas: the Teaching of Race in
Higher Education" in Anthias and Lloyd: Rethinking Anti-Racism ; and Jacobs, S. (ed) (2006) Pedagogies of Teaching
'Race': British and European Experiences; “Interactional issues in the teaching of ‘race’ in higher education” Race, Ethnicity and Education, 9, 4: 341-360
AHRC Research Fellow
and part-time lecturer in the Centre for Jewish Studies. She
is Project Director of the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage
in the UK & Ireland and Director of Jewish Heritage UK (
Honorary Research Fellow, and Professor of Transpersonal Psychology
at Liverpool John Moores University, researches in the
cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and the psychology of
spiritual traditions, with particular reference to Jewish mysticism.
He has published articles on the golem and the psychology
of kabbalistic language mysticism. He is the author of
The Elements of Judaism (1993), Approaches to
Consciousness: The Marriage of Science and Mysticism (2004)
and The Essence of Kabbalah (2005). 
Lecturer
in Jewish-Christian Relations. Main publication: 
Professor in Linguistics, with particular interests in the relations
between grammar and discourse and in sociolinguistics.
Current research is directed particularly to Romani language,
but has also included language typology and contact in Jewish
languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Kurdish,
Neo-Aramaic). Major Publications: Untersuchungen zu Grammatik
und Diskurs des Romanes: Dialekt der Kelderasya/Lovara
(1994), Romani: A Linguistic Introduction (2002),
(with Peter Bakker) (eds.) The Mixed Language Debate
(2003), and (with Viktor Elsik) Markedness and Language
Change (2006). 
Professor
of Jewish Thought; Research in literary structures of Rabbinic
literature; Rabbinic Exegesis; Spinoza; Hebrew Manuscripts. He has recently been awarded a major AHRC grant for a project on the "Typology of Pseudepigraphic and Anonymous Jewish Literature c.200 BCE to 700 CE.
Major Publications include: Forms of Rabbinic Literature
and Thought. An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University
Press,2007, ISBN: 978-0-19-929673-6; 260 pp.,);
Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); Spinozas Theorie
der Religion (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann,
1993); The Interpretation of Speech in the Pentateuch Targums
(Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1992); Database
of Midrashic Units in the Mishnah, 2003 (
Honorary
Research Fellow, Lecturer in PG Diploma/MA in Counselling Studies
and in Modern Jewish Thought at University of Manchester, Rabbi,
Manchester Reform Synagogue; Research in Spinoza, Modern Jewish
Thought. Major Publication: Baruch Spinoza, Outcast Jew,
Universal Sage (1991).
Honorary
Research Fellow, and Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought, Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, researches in modern Jewish
thought and interfaith relations. His books include: Judaism
and World Religion (MacMillan, 1991); The Analytic Movement:
Hayyim Soloveitchik and his Circle (Scholars Press, 1993);
A Very Short Introduction to Judaism (Oxford University
Press, 1996); Historical Dictionary of Judaism (Scarecrow
Press, 1998).
Honorary
Research Fellow, and Simon Fellow at the School of Arts, Histories
and Cultures; is currently engaged in research on "Antisemitism
and populist critiques of socio-economic modernization in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries". His general research
interests are in critical theory, the history of modern intellectual
thought, in particular that of sociology, theories of antisemitism,
gender studies and modern German history. Forthcoming and recent
publications include "Antisemitism and the Self-Destruction
of the Nation-State" in: D. Stone and R. King (eds.), Imperialism,
Slavery, Race, and Genocide: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt,
Oxford 2006 (Berghahn, forthcoming); "All that is fluid
is frozen to stone: sex and the individual in the modern context"
in S. Tischler, F. Matamoros and John Holloway (eds.), Adorno
and the Critique of the Political, Buenos Aires (Herramienta,
forthcoming); "Subject Trouble: Judith Butler and Dialectics"’
Philosophy and Social Criticism 31:3 (2005), 343-69;
"Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledge - and the Situated
Imagination" (co-written with Nira Yuval-Davis), Feminist
Theory 3(3) (2002), 315-33. His
book, The State, the Nation and the Jews, The Debate on
Antisemitism in Bismarck's Germany, will be published by
Nebraska University Press in 2008 
Honorary
Research Fellow, Minister of the Yeshurun Synagogue. Major Publications:
Wisdom in the Jewish Mystics (1971); Jews: Their
Religious Beliefs and Practices (1976, 2nd ed. 1996);
Judaism and Art (1980); A Dictionary of Jewish Lore
and Legend (1993).
Honorary
Research Fellow and part-time Lecturer in Jewish Studies; Research
in Manchester Jewry, Holocaust testimonies, biography of Sir
Sidney Hamburger, leadership in Anglo-Jewry; the reception and
experiences of refugees to the Manchester region, 1933-1945.
Major Publications: The Making of Manchester Jewry (1976);
Manchester Jewry, a Pictorial History (1988); Sir
Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry. Religion, City and Community
(1999).
Honorary
Research Fellow, has recently completed his doctoral research
on the origins and history of Manchester's strictly orthodox
community. A university lecturer in marketing, PR and journalism,
he researches in Anglo-Jewish orthodoxy and the history of European
orthodoxy since 1789. A regular contributor to the Anglo-Jewish
and Israeli press, broadcaster and consultant to BBC radio on
Jewish orthodoxy. The author of A Brief History of The Jewish
Community in Prestwich, Whitefield and Bury, his review of Prof.
J I Schohet's Toldot HaRivash [Testament of the Baal Shem Tov]
was published by Jewish Culture & History. The author of
the Centre's web pages on local fascist history (http://www.mucjs.org/fascism.htm),
he regularly lectures to Jewish and non-Jewish groups on Anglo-Jewish
history. Currently preparing a research paper on Jewish influences
in the development of modern public relations.