Dybbukim: Yiddish Spooky Movies
Come watch and discuss a few short Yiddish horror movies with Yiddish students and community members. Snacks provided!
From Digital Humanities to AI Humanities? Ethics, Algorithms, and History
Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles
Building on the arguments in his recent book, Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (2024), this talk focuses...
The Media of Holocaust Memory
Todd Presner and Laura Levitt
How do we remember the Holocaust in 2025? "The Media of Holocaust Memory" brings together two leading Holocaust scholars to...
Overlapping Jurisdictions: How Islamic Courts Upheld Jewish Law in Colonial Egypt
Guest Speaker: Samy Ayoub
This special lecture by Samy Ayoub and moderated by Aaron Rock-Singer will argue that legal pluralism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century...
Picturing Jews: An Interactive Photobook Workshop
Led by Nadya Bair, Frankel Institute Fellow, and Deborah Dash Moore, Interim Director of the Frankel Center
For many, the best-known photobook about the Jewish experience is Roman Vishniac’s "A Vanished World" (1983) – a melancholic...
"Lingua Ex Machina: Media and the Revitalization of Hebrew" Book Talk
Guest Speaker: Ido Ramati
What happens when an ancient language meets modern technology? This lecture will discuss the role played by media technologies—such as the...
36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
Ayala Fader
The 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture will be delivered by Professor Ayala Fader on Thursday, March 26, 2026. Food will be served at the...
