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Archaeology, politics and tourism: an historic relationship

Propaganda, spying, exploration, secret societies and, of course, money were all key ingredients of a workshop on British Mandate Palestine and Transjordan held on 9 November, writes Paul Butenshaw....

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Female Bodies, Male Souls: Asceticism and Gender in the Jewish Tradition

Review of the valedictory lecture by Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, 28 February, by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz. Why have there never been any female Jewish mystics or ascetics? This intriguing question...

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Honouring the Righteous

I have always thought that the Italian military from the 1920s until 1943 were simply fascists and puppets of the Nazis. At UCL on 24 April, Holocaust survivor Imre Rochlitz and his son Joseph...

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Mirror mirror, on the wall…

Written by Georgie Chesman, Graduate Trainee in UCL Communications and Marketing. A workshop encouraging doodling and making a mess? And it’s linked to self-identity? Over 90 minutes, Belinda...

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Oblivion and memorialisation: legacies of Nazi persecution in Europe

With the approach of Holocaust Memorial Day, this Lunch Hour Lecture was aptly timed. I entered the lecture with feelings of interest and curiosity, but also inevitable apprehension Having attended...

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Auschwitz revisited?

Written by Phil Leask, Honorary Research Associate in UCL SELCS (UCL German) The Auschwitz story – murder on a vast scale, planned, programmed, administered and executed by the Nazis in accordance with...

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