SOAS Leads the Conversation: COVID-19 in UK Jewish Communities

SOAS Radio

In this episode we were fortunate to have Catherine Hezser, professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, lead an episode discussing Jews and Coronavirus. She will be talking to Dr. Daniel Staetsky, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Dr. Keith Kahn Harris, Senior Lecturer and course team leader at Leo Baeck College, and Dr Michael Marks, Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and tropical medicine. We will also be joined by Mr Eli Spitzer, headmaster at the Talmud Torah Tiferes Shlomo boys’ school , an Orthodox school in North London. They discuss how Jewish communities have fared during lockdowns, the health and social impacts of Covid on these communities, and the response to vaccinations.