Events

Book Talk: Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism
 
Location
Jones Hall, Room 100
Sponsor
The Princeton Institute for Hasidic Thought; Program in Judaic Studies
Judaic Studies 2025 Class Day Reception
 
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies
Mexican Jewish Cooking Lunch
limited space available, please register
 

Join us for a cooking demonstration with author of Sabor Judío, The Jewish Mexican Cookbook, Margaret E. Boyle,…

Location
New College West, Community Kitchen C031
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Effron Center for the Study of America
  • Program in Judaic Studies
  • Program in Latin American Studies
Jews, Enslavement, and Rape: Social Realities and Literary Representations in the Early Modern Era

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History for this talk by Tamar Herzig on Wednesday, April 2. This event is part of Judaic Studies' ongoing Lecture Series on Antisemitism.

Abstract
This lecture will compare the ways in which interreligious sexual violence…

Location
East Pyne Building, Room 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies; Center for Collaborative History
October the 8th: Antisemitism as Cognitive Comfort

The Program in Judaic Studies invites you to join us on Thursday, March 6, for this talk by Eva Illouz, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History in the Department of History.

Description
Building on Adorno and Nirenberg's notion of antisemitism as cognitive comfort, Eva…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies; Center for Collaborative History
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
Speaker
Sponsor
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
Speaker
Sponsor
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
Speaker
Sponsor
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
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in Judaic Studies