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The NGG blog and conference archive bring together writing by postgraduate and early-career researchers about their work, experiences, and the wider field of Jewish studies. We publish conference reports, reflections on archives and sources, commentaries on new scholarship and exhibitions, and occasional interviews and essays.
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A recap of the NGG’s 11 May 2026 conference at UCL, featuring fifteen emerging scholars’ papers spanning Jewish history/studies across periods and places.
The article argues that “thin” provincial archives can still reveal sustained Jewish life in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century England by tracing fragmentary evidence of movement, ritual provision, and local knowledge across small towns such as Harwich and Colchester.
A brief response to Endelman’s piece, stressing how Anglo-Jewish history has professionalised while still fighting for fuller integration into mainstream historiography and teaching.
The article argues that the uncatalogued “unofficial archive” in Bradford Reform Synagogue’s rabbi’s room preserves overlooked materials that illuminate the history, practices, and social diversity of this small nineteenth-century Jewish community, especially through newly examined cemetery bye-laws.
A conference report from the Tower of London (30 June 2025) summarising papers/keynotes on 1275 and 1290 and pushing back on tidy narratives of “permanent” expulsion, urging more comparative, town-level ways of thinking.
A recap of the NGG’s 19 May 2025 conference at the Parkes Institute (Southampton), featuring nine emerging-scholars’ papers spanning Jewish history/studies across periods and places.
