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Jewish Women and Conversion in Medieval Europe
Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers University
To date, the history of conversion between Judaism and Christianity in medieval Europe has focused largely on men. The clerks, canon...
Guest Lecture: Dr. Michael Ochs, musicologist
“The Toast of ‘Jewish Broadway,’ 1923: Di goldene kale by Joseph Rumshinsky”
Join Dr. Michael Ochs, musicologist and retired music librarian from Harvard University, as he reintroduces the genre of Yiddish operetta to...
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
Keynote Address: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago
The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region...
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
Keynote Address: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago
The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region...
Whitechapel Noise: Politics, Sex and Religion in Yiddish Rhyme on the Streets of London’s East End 1884-1914
Vivi Lachs, Birkbeck, University of London
This talk, illustrated with song, will examine the abundance of Yiddish kupletn (rhyming couplets) written by Jewish immigrant songwriters...
The Crises Facing Jewish Existence in the Contemporary Period and their Educational Implications
Yossi Turner, Padnos Visiting Professor
This lecture frames some of the central challenges currently facing Jewish education in the contemporary digital age....
Marc Chagall, The Jewish Renaissance and the Art of Painting
Sabine Koller, University of Regensburg, Germany
“The Jewish form is here, it is awakening, it is coming alive again!” – This is the conclusion of the programmatic essay “The Paths...
Screening and Discussion of "GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II"
Lisa Ades, Filmmaker
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their...
The Past as a Foreign Country: Remembering Spain in Ottoman Lands
Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University
In June 2015, the Spanish government approved legislation granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. This...
The Yellow Ticket
Film and Musical Performance
The Yellow Ticket is a multimedia event featuring a rare German silent film starring a young Pola Negri, with an original score by renowned...
The Bizarre Tales of Yiddishland: What the Yiddish Press Reveals about the Jews
Eddy Portnoy, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Portnoy exposes the seamy underbelly of pre-World-War-II New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late 19th and...
Author's Forum Presents: "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture," A Conversation with Shachar Pinsker and Samer Ali
Shachar Pinsker (professor, Judaic studies and Middle East studies) and Samer Ali (associate professor, Arabic language and literature)...
Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Lithuania under the Tsars
Darius Staliunas, Lithuanian Institute of History
In 19th century Russian-ruled Lithuania, anti-Jewish feelings were widespread among the Christian population. This talk will demonstrate...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
