Events

Kwartler Family Lecture – How did Helena of Adiabene Become Queen of Jerusalem?

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Tuesday, December 5.

Abstract
According to the first-century historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem because she loved…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room A17
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
The Prado at Princeton

The Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) and the Program in Judaic Studies invites faculty and graduate students to a lunch talk featuring four scholars who will present their research in connection with the current exhibition "The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain," at the Museo Nacional del Prado in…

Location
Chancellor Green, Room 105
Sponsors
  • Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
  • Program in Judaic Studies
A Conversation with Dean Amaney Jamal and Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer
Israel and Gaza: Current Analysis and Vision of Post-War Policy
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 50
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Center for Jewish Life - Princeton Hillel
  • Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  • Chabad at Princeton University
  • Program in Judaic Studies
  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
  • Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Towards a New History of Ukraine: Writing Women’s Lives into War and Postwar

This co-presentation aims to unsettle the way the history of Ukraine has been imagined by venturing into stories that might be found in other historiographies, such as Russian, Eastern European, Polish, Jewish, and Soviet. Exploring the biographies of two women—Dina Pronicheva, a Jewish survivor of Babyn Iar and a puppet theater actress, and…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
Sponsors
  • Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Program in Judaic Studies
The Jewish history of lamentation: A faculty-student conversation
Location
Laura Wooten Hall, Room 201
Speakers
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
Mytelka Memorial Lecture – The Yiddish of the Islamic World? When did Jews adopt Arabic and how did this change Jewish Literature?

The Program in Judaic Studies' hosting of this year's Mytelka Scholar, Ronny Vollandt, continues with this lecture on Wednesday, October 11.

Abstract
Most of the Jews under Muslim rule in pre-modern times spoke and wrote Arabic. Jews gradually adopted Arabic for most forms of spoken…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
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Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
Mytelka Memorial Seminar – The Jewish Bookshelf in Medieval Cairo: Book Lists from the Cairo Genizah

The Program in Judaic Studies proudly welcomes this year's Mytelka Scholar, Ronny Vollandt, and begins his visit to Princeton with this seminar on Tuesday, October 10.

Medieval book lists from the Cairo Genizah preserve important evidence on the availability and circulation of Jewish books in the medieval Near East…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
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Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living

Join us on Monday, October 9, to learn about a striking new exploration of Qohelet.

In Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, philosopher Menachem Fisch and artist Debra Band together probe the biblical…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
Speakers
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
Judaic Studies Welcome Lunch

Celebrate the start of a new semester at a welcome lunch hosted by the Program in Judaic Studies on Friday, September 8!

We’ll gather at 12:30pm on the lawn outside Scheide Caldwell House or move indoors to Room 203 if the weather requires.

Feel free to stop by as you are able, but RSVPs are deeply…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
A conversation with Isaac Cherem

Please join us for a special Q&A in Spanish with Mexican filmmaker  Isaac Cherem on his debut feature film Leona (2018).

Zoom meeting ID: 235 457 6288

 

 

Location
Zoom