London Events

Unless otherwise listed, lectures will commence at 8.00 pm in the Moritz Gertler Hall of the St John's Wood Synagogue, Grove End Road, London NW8 (by courtesy of the Honorary Officers and the Board of Management).
Visitors are welcome. There is a £3 charge for non-members of the JHSE. Refreshments after the lectures.
Please contact the office (020 7723 5852) for further information.

Presidential Lecture: Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert

7 October, 2010 - 18:45

Charismatic leadership in eighteenth century Poland: from Israel Ba'al Shem Tov to Jacob Frank.

Dr Madge Dresser

18 November, 2010 - 20:00

New approaches to the History of Jews in Bristol.

Jonn Cooper

9 December, 2010 - 20:00

Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild (1840-1915), the last of the Shtadlanim. (Preceded by an Annual General Meeting at 7.30 pm).

Kathrin Pieren (IHR)

17 February, 2011 - 19:00

Jewish exhibitions and museums in London: From the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition
of 1887 to the Foundation of the Jewish Museum in 1932.

Dr Michael Jolles

10 March, 2011 - 20:00

British Chazanim and Synagogue Musicians.

Edward Marshall (RHC)

12 May, 2011 - 20:00

More British than the British: Jewish Film Producers and Celluloid Representations of the Nation.

Raphael Langham

23 June, 2011 - 20:00

The Bevin Enigma: what motivated Ernest Bevin's opposition to the establishment of a Jewish State?