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Wieseneck Symposium: Hebrew Literature Today: Israeli and Global Perspectives
University of Michigan Judaic Studies Faculty & Graduate Students and Authors: Maya Arad, Dory Manor, Ruby Namdar, Moshe Sakal
1:30 pm – symposium, 6:30 pm – Conversations with Authors...
"Taxing Identities": The Impact of 'Pardon Taxes' on Converso Identity
Claude Stuczynski, Bar-Ilan University
This lecture will reassess Converso-Sephardi identities, especially in early modern Portugal. Stuczynski will explore the archeology of the...
He is Still Israel? Conversion and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages
Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan
In the Middle Ages, Jews often faced pressure to convert to Christianity or Islam. While some did so out of conviction and others out of...
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...
Sephardi Perspectives on the Medieval Muslim World: Benjamin of Tudela and His "Book of Travels"
Martin Jacobs, Washington University (St. Louis)
This talk will offer a fresh look at the best-known Jewish traveler of the Middle Ages: Benjamin ben Jonah from the city of Tudela, in...
The Vanished Synagogues of Medieval Seville
Maya Soifer Irish, Rice University
In 1388, Ferrán Martínez, a cleric at the Cathedral of Seville, complained that there were twenty-three synagogues in the city and...
What is Sephardi about Sephardi Thought?
Daniel Lasker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sephardi Jewry produced major Jewish thinkers in the Middle Ages, from philosophers like Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Hasdai Crescas; to...
Wit, Wisdom, and Wonderment: The Culture of the Jews of Islamic Spain
Ross Brann, Cornell University
This talk explores the society and rich cultural production and values of the Jews of Islamic Spain from 900-1200, the period often referred...
Belin Lecture: Prisoners of Zion: American Jews, Human Rights, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
James Loeffler, University of Virginia
29th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs...
"Race" in Christianity and Islam: the Case of Converts from Judaism
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
Race and racism are important concepts, but their history is challenging. On the one hand, most historians (and biologists) today do not...
Influence of Biblical Cantillations on Art Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Jascha Nemstov, pianist and musicologist
The oldest part of Jewish music culture is the ritualized presentation of texts from the Hebrew Bible (tanakh) organized through a complex...
CPPS/Frankel Lecture. Space and Spirit, or How to make a Historical Atlas of Hasidism
Marcin Wodzinski, professor of Jewish history and literature, University of Wrocław.
Abstract:...
Jeroboam in Medieval Jewish Thought
Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University
Jeroboam Ben Nabat, a pretender to the throne of ancient Israel who had created a rival cult outside of Jerusalem replete with golden calves...
