To Travel a Different Road: The Translation of African-American Poetry into Yiddish, 1925-1936
Slavic MLK Colloquium with Eli Rosenblatt
In 1936, a Yiddish-language anthology Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America) was published in Moscow. It was compiled and...
JMRN Seminar: Affective trouble: a Jewish/Palestinian heterosexual wedding threatening the Israeli nation-state?
Roey J. Gafter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & Tommaso M. Milani, University of Gothenburg
Jewish-Muslim Research Network Seminar...
Orientalism and Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam
Lecture by Guy G. Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, followed by roundtable conversation with John M. Efron, University of California, Berkeley
Throughout the nineteenth century, the birth of what one may call philologia orientalis and the discovery of the linguistic similarities...
Sister Scholars: The Emergence of Orthodox Girls' Education in Interwar Poland
Naomi Seidman, Frankel Institute Fellow
This lecture will trace the revolution in the name of tradition enacted by Sarah Schenirer, a divorced seamstress with an eighth-grade...
Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience
Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest
The presence of Jews in the big cities of the Midwest (Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, or Milwaukee) has been studied primarily through the...
Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience
Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest
The presence of Jews in the big cities of the Midwest (Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, or Milwaukee) has been studied primarily through the...
“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...
Frankel Institute Event Series: Stranger Still: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Israel/Palestine
Sabine Huynh and Karen Alkalay-Gut
In this installment of the “Stranger Still” series, we invite the poets and translators Sabine Huynh (French, English, Hebrew) and Karen...
Releasing Roots: Hebrew Poetry in Translation
Adriana X. Jacobs, Frankel Institute Fellow
Jacobs is a scholar and translator of modern Hebrew poetry whose academic research is intertwined with her work as a literary translator....
Magic in Mame-Loshn: Translating Harry Potter into Yiddish
Arun Viswanath, Translator
The Harry Potter series is the most-translated book series of all time, having appeared in languages as various as Tamil, Ancient Greek, and...
The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
Charles Hirschkind in conversation with Flora Hastings
In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to...
Louis and Helen Padnos Lecture: "The Historical Jesus in His Jewish Context"
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbuilt University & Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan
Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived, and died as a Jew. But what kind of Jew was he in the diverse world of Second Temple Judaism? How did the...
31st Belin Lecture: Our Man in Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg, the United States, and the Myth of a Plan
Rebecca Erbelding, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
In the summer of 1944, nearly a decade after his graduation from the University of Michigan, Raoul Wallenberg arrived into the chaos of...
Opposition to Nazi Rule in Experience and Memory
Mark Roseman, Indiana University Bloomington
The rescue that we know is the rescue of memory. Driven by the search for heroes and "righteous gentiles," and relying on...
The Buddha in 10th-17th Century Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Narratives
Shatha Almutawa, American University
The history of exchange between Buddhists and Arabs began in pre-Islamic times and flourished in the Abbasid period with the translation of...
