Events

Beyond “Eternal Hatred”: Reconsidering the Nature of Antisemitism

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture featuring Magda Teter on Tuesday, February 25. This event is part of Judaic Studies' Lecture Series on Antisemitism.

Description
Antisemitism is frequently called “the eternal hatred,” tracing anti-Jewish hostility from…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
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Program in Judaic Studies
Mytelka Memorial Seminar – "A People Like a Donkey": Animalizing the Slave and Enslaving the Animal in Babylonian Talmud

The Program in Judaic Studies' hosting of this year's Mytelka Scholar, Beth Berkowitz, continues with this seminar on Wednesday, February 12.

Description
Aristotle calls both animals and enslaved people “natural slaves.” Building on this tradition, ancient Romans represented and treated slaves…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
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Program in Judaic Studies
Mytelka Memorial Lecture – What Animals Teach Us about Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature

The Program in Judaic Studies proudly welcomes this year's Mytelka Scholar, Beth Berkowitz, and begins her visit to Princeton with this lecture on Monday, February 10.

Description
Family separation due to war, migration, and incarceration is a major public concern, but what about the

Location
East Pyne Building, Room 010
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Program in Judaic Studies
Kwartler Family Lecture – Bruno Schulz and the Hijacking of History

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Benjamin Balint on Monday, February 3.

Description
The Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz was a master of twentieth-century fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him …

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room A17
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Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
David's Inner Court: Dynasties and Their Discontents

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Department of Religion on Tuesday, November 19, for this talk delivered by Ilana Pardes. Lunch will be available before the event's start, between 11:30am–12:00pm only.

The account of the rise of Israelite kingship in the Book of Samuel is one of the greatest…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 209
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  • Program in Judaic Studies
  • Department of Religion
Defending Civilization: A Philosopher on the Frontlines of World Conflict

Drawing on his decades of reporting from Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Nigeria, Libya, Syria, and Israel, globally renowned philosopher, journalist, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy will discuss his work in the world’s most troubled places and dangerous combat zones. He…

Location
Friend Center, Auditorium 101
Sponsors
  • Program in Judaic Studies
  • Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  • University Center for Human Values
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
  • Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
  • Humanities Council
Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism

Join the Program in Judaic Studies on Monday, November 11, to hear Adam S. Ferziger discuss his upcoming book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism, with Laura Arnold Leibman,…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
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Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
"Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue": Bible, Literature, Political Thought
A conference at Columbia University
Location
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, 617 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Sponsors
  • Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
  • Program in Judaic Studies, Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies, Princeton University
Maagarim: the tool you never knew you needed
A workshop at Princeton University

Maagarim — the database for the Historical Dictionary of Hebrew, maintained by the Academy for the Hebrew Language — is an invaluable tool for the study of rabbinic and other ancient Jewish literature. It is however underutilized and not well known in the U.S. In this workshop we will learn how to use Maagarim, its advantages and limitations,…

Location
East Pyne Building, Room 012
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
Biderman Lecture – Building a Home out of Books: One Family's Story of Migration, Providence, and the Printed Word

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Jewish Life for this year's Biderman Lecture, with Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D.,'05, on Monday, October 28.

The lecture will explore how three generations of the ibn Yahya family, Jewish fugitives from Portugal in 1496, retold the story of their family’s escape and how they…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room A17
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  • Program in Judaic Studies
  • Center for Jewish Life - Princeton Hillel