Past Events
The 'Yemenite Babies' Affair, screening and discussion with Shlomo Hatuka
Feb 7, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
Pyne 010
Francesca Bregoli, "Your Father's Interests: Emotions, Business, and Judaism in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean"
Feb 16, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Udi Goren "Walk in the Land: A Photographic Tour of Israel's National Trail"
Feb 27, 2017, 4:30 pm
Lital Levy and Philip Zhakevich, "From the Bible to the Beach: The 3,000-year Story of Hebrew"
Mar 7, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
102 Jones Hall
"What to Do When Everything is Untrue: American Jewish Myths about the Civil War," Adam Mendelsohn
Mar 15, 2017, 12:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green 105
Adam Mendelsohn, "Why Did They Not Fight?: Awkward Truths about Jews and the Civil War"
Mar 16, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
203 Scheide Caldwell House
Robert Brody, Looking for Early Composite Sugyot"
Mar 28, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
203 Scheide Caldwell House
Aspects of Literacy and Orality among Medieval Jews and Their Neighbors
Mar 29, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
1879 Hall, Religion Department Lounge
Robert Brody, "Aspects of Literacy and Orality among Medieval Jews and Their Neighbors"
Mar 29, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
1879 Hall
Building a Back-story: Archaelology and the Crafting of Israel's Conquest Narratives
Apr 5, 2017
Location
Green Hall, 1N5
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Theater of History: Encountering the Past in American Jewish Museums"
Apr 19, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Balfour Declaration: 100 Years of History and Memory
May 8, 2017
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
Carlo Ginzburg, "Medals and Shells: Morphology and History, Once Again," Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture
Sep 26, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Manuel Trajtenberg, "Israel at 70: Deep Social Fissures, Shared Aspirations," Kwartler Family Lecture
Oct 10, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
Betts Auditorium
Jonatan Benarroch, "'Christum qui est Haedus Iudaeis, Agnus Nobis' A Medieval Kabbalistic Response to the Patristic Commentary on Exod. 23:19"
Oct 18, 2017, 12:00 pm
Location
Green Hall, Room 1N5
Steven M. Cohen, "Polarization and Alienation in Jewish Life Today," Rabbi James S. Diamond Memorial Lecture
Oct 19, 2017, 5:00 pm
Location
Computer Science Building, room 104
Giuseppe Veltri, "Negotiating the Principle of (Non)-Contradiction: Johann Frischmuth (1619-1687) on the Rabbinic Sceptic Dialectic"
Oct 25, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
203 Scheide Caldwell House
"Joseph’s Dreams-Modern Visions"
Oct 29, 2017
Ilana Pardes, "The Book of Ruth & The Question of Migration"
Nov 6, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
Jones Hall 102
"Literary Estate as Mirror of Persecution: The Restitution Case of the Yiddish Poet Naftali Hertz Kon"
Nov 7, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
Marx Hall, Room 301
Mark R. Cohen, "Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World"
Nov 9, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location
Jones Hall, Room 202
Judaism in the 7th and 8th Centuries
Nov 12, 2017, 10:00 am