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...
MES Lecture Series - Israel Through A Colored Lens: African-American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis
Bryan Roby, Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
This lecture explores African-American interactions with Middle Eastern Jewish (Mizrahi) Israelis in the 1950s and 1960s, highlighting how...
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...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers...
"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 Nemtsov, 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
Marcin Wodzinski has produced the first cartographic reference book on Hasidism, one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical...
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...
