Tom Plant

The Parkes Institute is pleased to offer at least four studentships for students from any country to study for an MA in Jewish History and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK. The studentships will assist towards the cost of tuition fees (min. £1000 – max. £2500). Continue reading →

Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship as part of the Music and the Holocaust website project (http://holocaustmusic.ort.org). The Music and the Holocaust website is a widely-used educational resource created under the auspices of the international organisation World ORT, and was featured at a United Nations presentation in 2014. Continue reading →

Whatever you think of magic one thing is clear, it is a very long lived tradition that has left in its wake a huge wealth of written evidence. What can this evidence tell us about those who made use of magical knowledge and managed its transmission over time? We will examine two case studies, the Jewish and other magical text of late antique Mesopotamia, and the Christian and Jewish equivalents of medieval to current day Ethiopia. Continue reading →

The conference ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’, organised by a member of the Southampton Law School, will take place from 17-19 April 2015. Members of the public, including friends and supporters of the Parkes Institute, have voiced their concern about the fact that a conference that invites the questioning of the legitimacy of the State of Israel should be hosted by one of the UK’s leading universities. Continue reading →