To mark the 75th anniversary of modern Israel, this six-week series of Wednesday evening lectures held with Jewish Renaissance explores the lives, culture and history of the Jewish community in the pre-state period, as well as the discussions leading up to the Declaration of Independence.

Harvard academic Dr Susan Martha Kahn charts the extraordinary life of Rudolphina Menzel, a Viennese-born Jewish scientist, whose pioneering research fundamentally shaped the ways dogs came to be trained, cared for and understood. Known throughout Europe as one of the foremost breeders and trainers of police and military dogs, she was also a fervent Zionist responsible for inventing the canine infrastructure in what came to be the State of Israel and for training hundreds of dogs to protect Jewish lives and property in pre-state Palestine. Read more by Dr Kahn in the Winter 2023 issue of JR.

This talk will be free to attend, but please book your place here:

https://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events/exploring-the-yishuv