Events

Yair Lorberbaum, Bar Ilan University, “Halakhic Religiosity of Transcendence, Halakhic Religiosity of Servitude, and other Rejections of Reasons of the Commandments”

Yair Lorberbaum is a member of the Law Faculty at Bar Ilan University, where he lectures on Philosophy of Law, Jewish Law and Jewish Thought. Prof. Lorbebraum has been a member of the IAS of the Hartman Institute for many years and a guest lecturer at: Yale University, Cardozo Law School, Princeton University, and NYU Law School. He served as…

Location

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203

Daniel Schwartz, George Washington University, “Ghetto: The History of a Word”

Daniel B. Schwartz (Princeton '97) is an associate professor of history and the director of the Program in Judaic Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, which was co-winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies and a…

Location

McCormick Hall, Room 106

James Redfield, Saint Louis University/Cornell University, "Dispatches from Whale Island: Babylonian Jewish Hellenization, Revisited"

James Adam Redfield is Assistant Professor of Biblical and Talmudic Literatures at Saint Louis University and a Fellow in Cornell University's Society for the Humanities and Program in Jewish Studies (2018-19). He earned his PhD from Stanford in Religious Studies (2017). His primary research areas are rabbinic literature and the history of…

Location

1879 Hall, Room 140

Biderman Lecture, James Loeffler, University of Virginia, "Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in Historical Perspective"

Location

Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room A17

Tzahi Weiss, Open University of Israel, "Rethinking Kabbalah: Kabbalistic literature, Jewish myth and the myths about the emergence of Kabbalah"

Location

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203

Gideon Bohak, Tel Aviv University, “The Cairo Genizah and the Reconstruction of Late-Antique Judaism”

Location

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203

Kwartler Lecture, Bryan Roby, University of Michigan, “Israel through a Colored Lens: African-American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis”