The Concept of a Universal Humanity, Social Justice and National Individuality in Modern Jewish Thought
Yossi Turner, Padnos Visiting Professor
One of the major themes of modern Jewish thought is the ever-changing relationship between the identity of Jews as a group and the concept...
On Site/Sight: From Europe to the Lower East Side and Beyond
Sara Blair and Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan
Sara Blair, the author of "How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images" (Princeton University Press), and...
Madame Bovary in the Jewish Provinces: Fradel Shtok’s Modernist Yiddish Prose
Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University
Celebrated primarily as the poet who wrote the first sonnet in Yiddish, Fradel Shtok was also a masterful prose stylist. She published a...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
