UCL’s Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, fittingly named after the JHSE’s former president Gustave Tuck (1857—1942), hosted the New Generation Group’s annual conference on Monday 11th of May 2026. The NGG is the Jewish Historical Society’s network of emerging scholars of Jewish history. Entitled Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation, this was the NGG’s third conference, following the inaugural conference at Queen Mary University of London and last year’s event at the Parkes

by Lenny Goodrich Introduction “A Nation….is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours”. i We are indebted to the family of the late Maurice Orbach (former Labour MP and prominent Zionist) for depositing extensive papers and other material with the National Archive relating to a significant, yet under-reported aspect of pre-war years Anglo-Jewish life. Orbach was the influential general secretary of the Tr

A unique and exciting event that will combine a book launch for James Brown's book, Moral Superpower in the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2026) with a public event for Avram Taylor's BA/Leverhulme funded research project, Jewish Activism and Anglo-Jewish Identity in Cold War Britain: The Campaign for Soviet Jewry. This campaign was one of the most significant forms of Jewish activism during the postwar era. James Brown's research looks at how the USSR responded to Western support for