Traditions Entwined: Writing Judeo-Persian Poetry in Fourteenth-Century Iran
Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In this talk Rubanovich will look into several episodes from the Bereshit-nāma with an aim to explore Shāhīn’s (fl. in the first part...
From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza
Documentary Film by Michelle Paymar
This compelling documentary tells the story of the Cairo Geniza, a vast treasure trove of manuscripts hidden for centuries in the geniza, or...
What Ifs of Jewish History
Gavriel Rosenfeld, Fairfield University, in conversation with Devi Mays and Jeff Veidlinger, University of Michigan
What if the Jews of Spain had not been expelled in 1492? What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939? What if a Jewish state had been...
Does Time Stop in the World of Talmud Torah?
Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University in conversation with Jack Kugelmass, Frankel Institute Fellow
Longtime Lower East Side resident and veteran anthropologist Jonathan Boyarin will present his autoethnography of study at the...
Work in Progress Screening & Discussion: ?װער װעט בלײַבן (Ver Vet Blaybn?) Who Will Remain?
Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
Christa Whitney will present a work-in-progress version of Ver Vet Blaybn? Who Will Remain?, an hour-long documentary following Israeli...
Yiddish and Trauma Studies
Frankel Institute Fellows: Harriet Murav and Hannah Pollin-Galay and Guest Scholar: Ann Cvetkovich, Carleton University
Trauma studies is an interdisciplinary field exploring not only the psychological effects of traumatic experiences, but also the problem of...
Global Yiddish Networks
Frankel Institute Fellows: Dov-Ber Kerler, Amy Kerner, Eli Rosenblatt, and Nick Underwood and Guest Scholar: Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania
While it originated in Central and Eastern Europe, Yiddish has traveled throughout the world. Centers of Yiddish cultural activity have...
The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring'
Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan
Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the...
"Translating the Holocaust"
Justin Cammy, Frankel Institute Fellow
In spring 1944 Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, witness to the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto, was airlifted from the partisan forest to...
“Our Father”: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s)
Sarah Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In contemporary parlance, the term “Abrahamic religions” serves to indicate the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The...
"The Almighty Salad": Jewish Vegetarianism and the Backlash in the Yiddish Press
Eve Jochnowitz, Frankel Institute Fellow
In the first half of the twentieth century, the Yiddish speakers looked to vegetarianism as a way of creating better and more rational...
Orientalism and Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam
Guy G. Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Throughout the nineteenth century, the birth of what one may call philologia orientalis and the discovery of the linguistic similarities...
30th Belin Lecture: “It Can Happen Here”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past
Pamela Nadell, American University
30th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs...
Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939
Todd Endelman & Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan
Come celebrate the publication of "Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918—1939" edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi...
