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My main area of interest lies in questions of gender, national identity and women's history in Jewish traditions. In particular my research focuses on how questions of religious identity are put under a feminist criticism. I am also interested in inter-Jewish migration, and how aspects of Jewish culture can be seen as part of European diasporas.
In 2014 I graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Leeds. I was a Moses Maimonides Fellow at Paideia the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm, 2014-2015. As of September 2016 I finished my MA in History at Queen's University Belfast which I began in September. My dissertation explored how the Conservative Jewish movement in the United States debated women's ritual rights in the context of secular feminism/the women's liberation movement.
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On Religion, 2015
Religious diversity is an often forgotten reality in Northern Ireland, whose history has been dom... more Religious diversity is an often forgotten reality in Northern Ireland, whose history has been dominated by conflict between Protestant and Catholic communities. In this feature article, I discuss the history of religion in Northern Ireland since the 1920s beyond Protestantism and Catholicism in order to make way for a new way of thinking about religion there.
Talks by John J Roberts
The study of Irish emigration has mostly been focused on the Roman Catholic experience with obvio... more The study of Irish emigration has mostly been focused on the Roman Catholic experience with obvious consequences on the ways in which we think about religion within the Irish diaspora. In this paper I attempt to break away from this stereotype through focusing on Ireland’s Jewish migrants, who have preserved and created new forms of Irish-Jewish cultural identity abroad, such as in the United States and Israel. Working with a more general framework of the Jewish and Irish diasporas, I propose a new way of thinking about the Irish diaspora, and similarly how it raises the question of Jewish diasporas.
On Religion, 2015
Religious diversity is an often forgotten reality in Northern Ireland, whose history has been dom... more Religious diversity is an often forgotten reality in Northern Ireland, whose history has been dominated by conflict between Protestant and Catholic communities. In this feature article, I discuss the history of religion in Northern Ireland since the 1920s beyond Protestantism and Catholicism in order to make way for a new way of thinking about religion there.
The study of Irish emigration has mostly been focused on the Roman Catholic experience with obvio... more The study of Irish emigration has mostly been focused on the Roman Catholic experience with obvious consequences on the ways in which we think about religion within the Irish diaspora. In this paper I attempt to break away from this stereotype through focusing on Ireland’s Jewish migrants, who have preserved and created new forms of Irish-Jewish cultural identity abroad, such as in the United States and Israel. Working with a more general framework of the Jewish and Irish diasporas, I propose a new way of thinking about the Irish diaspora, and similarly how it raises the question of Jewish diasporas.