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Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940-1945
Marion Kaplan, New York University
Marion Kaplan speaks about the experience of refugees from Nazi Germany in Portugal, the port of last resort once Hitler invaded France. She...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity
Eisenberg Forum / Frankel Institute Symposium
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity considers the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Through a series of short papers,...
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity
Eisenberg Forum / Frankel Institute Symposium
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity considers the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Through a series of short papers,...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
“Below the Line”? The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures Symposium
What is common to Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Isaac Babel, Joseph Roth, Walter Benjamin, and Ilya...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Louis and Helen Padnos Lecture Series: "Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim"
Sarra Lev, Louis & Helen Padnos Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
The androgynus is defined by the anonymous majority in Tosefta Bikkurim, chapter 2, as sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes both and...
A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Samuel Kassow, Trinity College
During World War II Jews resisted not only with guns but also with pen and paper. Even in the face of death they left "time capsules" full...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Franz Kafka and Max Brod: Trial and Judgments in Israel
Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University
Before Franz Kafka died, he asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Instead, Brod kept the manuscripts with the...
The Birth of Jewish Art Music in St. Petersburg, 1908
Neal Brostoff, Jewish Music Scholar
Neal Brostoff examines the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, which was established in 1908, and created an impressive repertory...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Louis and Helen Padnos Lecture Series: "Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim"
Sarra Lev, Louis & Helen Padnos Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
The androgynus is defined by the anonymous majority in Tosefta Bikkurim, chapter 2, as sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes both and...
Beyond the Book: How We Know the Exodus Didn't Happen… and How We Know It Did
Mark Leuchter, Temple University
The Exodus from Egypt has been the foundation of Jewish ritual and theology for millennia. There is little to no archaeological evidence to...
Art Spiegelman: Comics is the Yiddish of Art
Artist and Illustrator Art Spiegelman is known widely for his Pulitzer Prize-winning literary graphic novel Maus, a Holocaust narrative that...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Painting for Freedom and the Freedom to Paint: Ben Shahn’s Murals and the Jewish Refugee Crisis
Diana Linden, City University of New York
This illustrated slide lecture considers two sets of completed murals and one proposed mural by Ben Shahn which all explore issues of...
Yiddish Leyenkrayz
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of...
Frankel + Kelsey: Jews and Artifacts at the Museum
Five Frankel Fellows, five objects, five short talks. Join us as fellows offer their interpretations of an object that they’ve personally...
Reflecting on Politics, History and Half a Century at Michigan
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan...
