Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Planting New Roots (September 26, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55545 55545-13756894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 5:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

Please join students, faculty, and staff of the Jewish Communal Leadership Program in the School of Social Work's courtyard sukkah for a Sukkot harvest celebration. We will be engaging with a Jewish text to help us reflect on our personal resiliency as well as our intentions for the new year, planting potted herbs to take home and brighten our spaces, and shaking the lulav and etrog (a traditional Sukkot ritual).

Wednesday, September 26th
5:30-7:30 PM

All are welcome- no knowledge/prerequisite of Judaism/Hebrew required.

Seasonal hors d'oeuvre provided, as well as potting materials.

RSVP Here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/?eventID=E3298

Questions? Contact Paige Walker at vpwalker@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:51:48 -0400 2018-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-26T19:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Reception / Open House Image of a temporary dwelling with leaves and fruit
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44037 44037-9877694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Advisors, CGIS Alumni, and program representatives from around campus and the world will answer your questions about UM study abroad opportunities. Learn about UM faculty-led programs and meet with staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office. Enjoy performances from global student orgs, maize-n-blue giveaways, and free candy from around the world!

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Fair / Festival Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:01:54 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Study Abroad!
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
The Concept of a Universal Humanity, Social Justice and National Individuality in Modern Jewish Thought (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53356 53356-13349552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

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 of a universal humanity. This lecture tries to show that one of the major differences between Jewish thought in Israel and the North American diaspora is to be found in the opposing ways in which each understands national and ethnic individuality in connection with the idea of a universal humanity.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:34:05 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yossi Turner Event
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
On Site/Sight: From Europe to the Lower East Side and Beyond (October 10, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53358 53358-13349554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Sara Blair, the author of "How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images" (Princeton University Press), and Shachar Pinsker, the author of "A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture" (NYU Press), moderated by Deborah Dash Moore, will discuss their recently published books. They will explore issues of place and space, new modes of producing images and texts, and the creation of urban modern Jewish culture.

Image:© International Center of Photography Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993

Please note Literati Bookstore does not have an elevator. There is an accessible main floor entrance at our 4th avenue entrance. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:31:41 -0400 2018-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion © International Center of Photography Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 12, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 13, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-13T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 14, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13780054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 14, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-14T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 15, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13958279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 16, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13958280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13958281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit (October 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55835 55835-13958282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A same-sex Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah). A sign for gender inclusive bathrooms in a Jewish Community Center. A Christmas tree adorned with rainbow-colored ornaments and a Star of David topper. These are three of the 21 photos-with-narratives that constitute “Hineinu – Here We Are: An LGBTQ+ Jewish Photovoice Exhibit.” Combined with rich, thought-provoking text, these photos give insight into the varied experiences of local community members who are both Jewish and queer.

“Photovoice” is the process of putting cameras in the hands of traditionally “voiceless” or marginalized community members to allow them to record, reflect on, and share their community’s strengths and concerns. Photovoice participants have the opportunity to capture their current experiences through pictures, with the goal of sparking dialogue and action related to the themes depicted in the photos.

As you view this Photovoice exhibit, we hope that you will consider what it means to be inclusive and welcoming, and that you will continue to develop an awareness of the diversity of other people’s experiences both within and outside of the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:50 -0400 2018-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hineinu poster
Madame Bovary in the Jewish Provinces: Fradel Shtok’s Modernist Yiddish Prose (October 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53360 53360-13349557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Celebrated primarily as the poet who wrote the first sonnet in Yiddish, Fradel Shtok was also a masterful prose stylist. She published a single collection of short fiction in 1919 that was dismissed by some critics for its embrace of prose narrative techniques that made her more akin to Flaubert than to Sholem Aleichem. The lore about Shtok is that traumatized by negative reviews, she died in an asylum. However, this was not true: she continued to write in Yiddish, and died in LA years after news of her tragic death. This talk offers a revised account of Yiddish modernism, one that acknowledges the centrality of woman to the modern Jewish revolution.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:49:53 -0400 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Madame Bovary
Jewish Women and Conversion in Medieval Europe (October 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53361 53361-13349558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

To date, the history of conversion between Judaism and Christianity in medieval Europe has focused largely on men. The clerks, canon lawyers, preachers, popes, kings, bishops, theologians, chroniclers, rabbis, and poets who wrote about converts were men. Yet, medieval sources also shed light on the experiences of women. This lecture will present new research on the lives of women who converted to and from Judaism in medieval Spain and northern Europe.

Image:Cantigas de Santa María. Biblioteca de San Lorenzo el Real, Escorial, ms. T.I.1, fol. 154

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:31:48 -0400 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Cantigas de Santa María. Biblioteca de San Lorenzo el Real, Escorial, ms. T.I.1, fol. 154
Whitechapel Noise: Politics, Sex and Religion in Yiddish Rhyme on the Streets of London’s East End 1884-1914 (October 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53363 53363-13349559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk, illustrated with song, will examine the abundance of Yiddish kupletn (rhyming couplets) written by Jewish immigrant songwriters and poets in pre-World-War-I London. These protest hymns, music-hall songs and satirical verse, until now hidden in archives, tell tales that expand and nuance our knowledge of immigrant history. As an accessible popular culture, they tell these stories with humor, intensity, and passion. This talk will give an overview of these key ideas, illustrating theoretical and historical points with engaging poetic and musical examples.

Image: Jewish Museum, London

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:54:43 -0400 2018-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jewish Museum, London
The Crises Facing Jewish Existence in the Contemporary Period and their Educational Implications (November 4, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53359 53359-13349555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 4, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture frames some of the central challenges currently facing Jewish education in the contemporary digital age.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:31:14 -0400 2018-11-04T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yossi Turner Event
Marc Chagall, The Jewish Renaissance and the Art of Painting (November 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52617 52617-12908308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

“The Jewish form is here, it is awakening, it is coming alive again!” – This is the conclusion of the programmatic essay “The Paths of Jewish Painting” by the young artists Issachar Ber Ryback and Boris Aronson which appeared in 1919 in Kiev. Marc Chagall was one of the main figures of this awakening. His playful art, which combines European and Russian avant-garde techniques with a Jewish imagery, is considered one of the most innovative expressions of modern Jewish art. The talk will survey the renaissance in Jewish art at the time of the Russian revolution, from Kiev to Vitebsk, and from Moscow to Paris. It will also discuss the place of Yiddish book illustration in Chagall development as a modern artist

Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller studied Slavic and Romance philology at the Universities of Regensburg, Grenoble and Saint Petersburg Theater Academy. She received her PhD from the University of Regensburg in 2002. Since 2013 she is professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies at the University of Regensburg, maintaining the first professorship of this kind in Germany. She is the author of Marc Chagall. Grenzgänge zwischen Literatur und Malerei (2012). Her current research focuses on the aesthetic evolution of Yiddish modernist poets (Dovid Hofshteyn) during the Soviet period.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:21:57 -0400 2018-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion chagall
Screening and Discussion of "GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II" (November 6, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53364 53364-13349561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Judaic Studies

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 own words, veterans both famous (director Mel Brooks, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) and unknown share their war experiences: how they fought for their nation and people, struggled with anti-Semitism within their ranks, and emerged transformed.

The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Lisa Ades, and Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History Deborah Dash Moore.

All of UMMA’s public areas and galleries are wheelchair accessible. Please enter through the Frankel Family Wing entrance, located at the front of the building on State Street. Wheelchairs are available, and can be used inside the building for free on a first-come, first-served basis. Please ask one of UMMA’s Security Officers for assistance borrowing a wheelchair upon arrival. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Film Screening Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:29:07 -0400 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Judaic Studies Film Screening GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
The Past as a Foreign Country: Remembering Spain in Ottoman Lands (November 8, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55294 55294-13713838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In June 2015, the Spanish government approved legislation granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. This political development, described by Spain’s Justice Minister as a “historic reparation of … the greatest mistake in Spanish history,” has sparked a flurry of interest from Jews of Iberian origin across the globe—from Latin America and the U.S. to Israel and Turkey. Based on the assumption of Sephardi Jews’ continued cultural identification with their one-time homeland, the law promises to reward their “fidelity and special ties to Spain.” Yet, the precise nature of this historic relationship, explains historian Julia Phillips Cohen, is more complex than such characterizations suggest. Using the present debates as a point of departure, her talk probes the evolution of Sephardi Jews’ ties to Spain in the centuries following their expulsion.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

Photo Citation: “Map of Sephardic Diaspora Alternative ,” DSS Exhibits, accessed September 13, 2018, https://exhibits.lafayette.edu/omeka/items/show/2706.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:10:23 -0400 2018-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Map of Sephardic Diaspora Alternative
Lise Meitner: Her Escape from Germany and the Discovery of Fission (November 8, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56776 56776-13997147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Please join us!

Title: "Lise Meitner: Her Escape from Germany and the Discovery of Fission"

Abstract: Lise Meitner was one of the pioneers of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Albert Einstein once called her “the most significant woman scientist of the 20th century.” Yet by the 1970s, her name was nearly forgotten. With the publication of the book by Ruth Lewin Sime, “Lise Meitner, A life in physics,” to some extent her name has resurfaced. The chronology of the discovery of fission is considerably more complex than the facts, and clouded by events beyond the world of science. The facts are that on January 6, 1939, Hahn and Strassmann reported in Naturwissenschaften their chemical findings for fission. On February 11, 1939, Meitner and Frisch published in Nature the physical interpretation of the process they named fission. In 1944, Otto Hahn alone received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.”

I became familiar with Lise Meitner and her story when, in 1972, Dr. Sime started writing my father for details about Lise Meitner's escape from Germany. This is because in July 1938, my grandfather, Dirk Coster, was the person who escorted her out of Germany. In Sime's book, Meitner's escape from Germany reads like a spy novel, except that it is completely based in fact. At age 59, Meitner left Germany forever with 10 marks in her purse, one small suitcase, and a diamond ring given to her by Otto Hahn that he had inherited from his mother.

This talk will be a combination of facts, excerpts from the film, “Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn” (a film by Rosemarie Reed), and personal stories heard from my father, aunts, and uncles. Lise Meitner's early years, her role in the discovery of nuclear fission, her escape from Germany, and the consequences that followed will be covered. Of special interest to this group is the involvement of Samuel Goudsmit, a friend of my grandfather’s and a professor at the University of Michigan from 1927 and 1946.

Dr. Anthea Coster is an assistant director and principal research scientist at MIT Haystack Observatory. Dr. Anthea Coster has made important contributions in quantifying GPS ionosphere effects and utilization of GPS measurements for ionospheric and atmospheric studies. With expertise in ground-based radio and optical instruments, and satellite-based measurements, Dr. Coster successfully compiled data from a myriad of instrumentation sources (the GPS network, incoherent scatter data from UHF/VHF Radars, and data from the IMAGE and DMSP satellites) for use in ionospheric research. Her work on analysis of ionospheric effect on satellite tracking, evaluation of the scintillation model WBMOD, comparisons between simultaneous GPS and incoherent scatter radar measurements of ionospheric TEC, and evaluations of several atmospheric density models and their input parameters for use in atmospheric drag calculations represent some of the earliest, original, groundbreaking efforts in the field, and are still widely cited today. Her pioneering efforts in introducing and relating GPS measurements to fundamental ionosphere studies has led to the recognition of GNSS as a viable low-cost, globally distributed sensor for space weather monitoring and ionosphere remote sensing.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:52:53 -0400 2018-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Judaic Studies Winter 2019 Course Offerings Event (November 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57285 57285-14148799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Students can come and check out the Winter 2019 courses available, meet with the Judaic Studies advisor and enjoy free cookies and donuts.

Judaic Studies offers courses and degrees that help you engage in the world and plan for your futures. The diverse course offerings allows for exploration of any aspect of the Jewish experience, from Israel to America, spanning the biblical era to the present. Through our courses students can examine the histories, cultures, and languages of the Jewish people. Students will develop individual responses to complex issues like religious faith, cultural pluralism, ethnic identity, and migration. Judaic Studies students gain vital skills in research and writing, critical and creative thinking, and public and persuasive speaking. The diverse curriculum allows for exploration of any aspect of the Jewish experience, from Israel to America, spanning the biblical era to the present.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:22:50 -0400 2018-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Reception / Open House Winter 2019
The Yellow Ticket (November 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53365 53365-13349562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yellow Ticket is a multimedia event featuring a rare German silent film starring a young Pola Negri, with an original score by renowned klezmer violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals, performed live along with Toronto's virtuoso new-music pianist Marilyn Lerner. “The Yellow Ticket,” a very early production of the German film company UFA-Pagu, was made at the end of World War I and on the eve of the Russian revolution. It stars an adolescent Pola Negri, who would later become the legendary femme fatale of the silent era, and tells the story of a young Jewish woman from a Polish shtetl who is constrained by anti-Semitic restrictions to lead a double life in a brothel while attempting to study medicine in Tsarist Russia. The film includes precious footage of the former Jewish quarter of Warsaw and the people who once lived there.

Ticket information: http://www.michtheater.org/show/the-yellow-ticket/

Frankel Speaker Series co-sponsored with Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor and Michigan Theater

Please contact The Michigan Theater at 734-668-8397 for up-to-date accessibility information.

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Performance Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:04:19 -0500 2018-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Performance Yellow Ticket
The Bizarre Tales of Yiddishland: What the Yiddish Press Reveals about the Jews (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53367 53367-13349564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

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 early 20th centuries. With true stories of Jewish drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, psychics, and beauty queens, all plucked from the pages of the Yiddish dailies, Portnoy will present the Jews whose follies and foibles were fodder for urban gossip before winding up at the bottom of bird cages or as wrapping for dead fish.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:53:55 -0400 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion The Biazarre Tales of Yiddishland
"Sacramental Thinking and Jewish Erasure in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Destruction of Jerusalem" (November 15, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55228 55228-13704911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Drama Interest Group presents a lecture by Professor Kara McShane of Ursinus College.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:09:18 -0400 2018-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Critical Conversations -- Memory (November 16, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54728 54728-13638586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for a conversation about Memory and Contemporary Studies

Featuring panel presentations by:
Naomi André, Sara Blair; Angela Dillard; Kristin Hass; Joshua Miller (chair)

Please kindly RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/9AU8OOiIiLzovda92
(Lunch is available at 12pm; Presentations begin at 12:30pm)

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Sponsored by: the English Department; Critical Contemporary Studies; Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:46:57 -0400 2018-11-16T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Author's Forum Presents: "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture," A Conversation with Shachar Pinsker and Samer Ali (November 28, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54059 54059-13521824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Shachar Pinsker (professor, Judaic studies and Middle East studies) and Samer Ali (associate professor, Arabic language and literature) discuss Pinsker's new book, "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture," followed by Q & A.

About the book:
Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space. Yet, coffeehouses profoundly influenced the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. With roots stemming from the Ottoman Empire, the coffeehouse and its drinks gained increasing popularity in Europe. The “otherness,” and the mix of the national and transnational characteristics of the coffeehouse perhaps explains why many of these cafés were owned by Jews, why Jews became their most devoted habitués, and how cafés acquired associations with Jewishness. Examining the convergence of cafés, their urban milieu, and Jewish creativity, Shachar M. Pinsker argues that cafés anchored a silk road of modern Jewish culture. He uncovers a network of interconnected cafés that were central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization, from Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin to New York City and Tel Aviv. A Rich Brew explores the Jewish culture created in these social spaces, drawing on a vivid collection of newspaper articles, memoirs, archival documents, photographs, caricatures, and artwork, as well as stories, novels, and poems in many languages set in cafés. Pinsker shows how Jewish modernity was born in the café, nourished, and sent out into the world by way of print, politics, literature, art, and theater. What was experienced and created in the space of the coffeehouse touched thousands who read, saw, and imbibed a modern culture that redefined what it meant to be a Jew in the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:28:57 -0400 2018-11-28T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-28T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion A Rich Brew
II Round Table: Antisemitism Today (December 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57766 57766-14303998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

What is Antisemitism, and how is it manifesting itself today? Is it on the rise globally? How does it differ in different parts of the world? Join a panel if U-M faculty as they discuss the issues surrounding antisemitism in our world. A Q&A will follow.

Panel:
Joshua Cole (moderator)
Acting Director, International Institute; Department of History

Karla Goldman
Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; School of Social Work
-Antisemitism and white supremacy

Julian Levinson
Department of English Language and Literature; Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
-Antisemitism and the political left

Shachar Pinsker
Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
-Short historical perspective on antisemitism, Zionism, and Israel--and the lines between criticism of Israel and antisemitism today.

Steven Ratner
U-M Law School; Center for South Asian Studies; Center for Southeast Asian Studies; Donia Human Rights Center
-The regulation of hate speech in U.S. constitutional law and international human rights law

Alexandra Minna Stern
Department of American Culture; History; Women's Studies; Obstetrics and Gynecology
-How antisemitism sits at the core at the alt-right and particularly its distorted narrative of American history, touching on the role of social media in amplifying antisemitism

Jeffrey Veidlinger
Director, Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
-The historical background of antisemitism

This event is co-sponsored by the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:33:34 -0500 2018-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Lecture / Discussion logo
Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Lithuania under the Tsars (December 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53368 53368-13349565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In 19th century Russian-ruled Lithuania, anti-Jewish feelings were widespread among the Christian population. This talk will demonstrate this by focusing on blood libel accusations as well as describing the role of modern anti-Semitism. Staliunas will identify the structural preconditions and the specific triggers that turned anti-Jewish feelings into collective violence, and analyze the nature of this violence.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:21:39 -0400 2018-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Lithuania under the Tsars
Wieseneck Symposium: Hebrew Literature Today: Israeli and Global Perspectives (January 17, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57436 57436-14193506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

1:30-3:30 pm – Roundtable in Hebrew: Readings of texts and discussion with UM faculty and graduate students: Maya Barzilai, Yael Kenan, Nadav Linial, Marina Mayorski, Shachar Pinsker

4:00-5:30 pm – Panel in English: Discussion with the authors about shared themes and questions from U-M faculty and graduate students
Moderator: Maya Barizlai

5:30-6:30 pm – Reception with Authors

6:30-7:45 pm – Conversation with Authors: Maya Arad, Dory Manor, Ruby Namdar, and Moshe Sakal (in English. Books will be available for sale)
Moderator: Shachar Pinsker

The symposium brings four writers, who stand at the forefront of contemporary Hebrew literature in Israel and the US, in conversation with University of Michigan scholars and students. It features the highly acclaimed writers Maya Arad, Ruby Namdar, and Moshe Sakal, and the prize-winning poet, translator, and editor Dory Manor. Writers and scholars will discuss the meaning of writing Hebrew today in Israel and around the world, and the contacts between Hebrew and other languages. They will consider the challenges of translation, editing, and disseminating literature in a global context, as well as the political implications of Hebrew literature today.

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The assembly hall is on the fourth floor.
If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 Jan 2019 12:08:36 -0500 2019-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Wieseneck Symp
CPPS Film and Discussion. "The Return" (January 24, 2019 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59372 59372-14734940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:15pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies is pleased to cosponsor the screening of Adam Zucker's documentary, "The Return." The film follows four young Polish women and their experiences discovering their Jewish identity in a place that used to be the center of Jewish society. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Adam Zucker and Professor Geneviève Zubrzycki, CPPS director.

To learn more about the documentary, watch the trailer here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3h_659yZ0) or see the film website (https://www.thereturndocumentary.com).

The event is free and open to the public - please RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/aK2Rq

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to ayedwab@umich.edu in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Co-sponsored by Michigan Hillel SHARE (Students for Holocaust Awareness, Remembrance, and Education), and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:13:11 -0500 2019-01-24T19:15:00-05:00 2019-01-24T21:15:00-05:00 Dana Building Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening The Return
Luigi Ferri: The Survival of a 12-year-old Italian Child at Auschwitz (January 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59200 59200-14717505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Seven hundred and seventy six Italian children under the age of 14 were deported to Auschwitz. Only 25 survived the gas chambers. Luigi Ferri was one of them.

As the child of mixed marriage he could have avoided deportation, but he refused to abandon his beloved Jewish grandmother when she was arrested in June 1944 in Trieste.

At Auschwitz they were sent to the gas chambers, but Luigi was spared at the last moment, only because a Jewish inmate who was working as a doctor at the hospital of the camp, Dr. Otto Wolken, took him under his protection.

Luigino remained hidden for weeks in a barrack and was then registered (tattooed) and "employed" as an errand boy. He and his protector miraculously survived the liquidation of the camp. In April 1945, Luigi was one of the first witnesses of the atrocities of the camp to appear before a Polish tribunal. Afterwards, he mysteriously vanished for the
rest of his life, the only Italian Auschwitz survivor of whom no news ever surfaced again - or at least this is what is commonly repeated. Newly discovered documents are now revealing us the whole story.

Presented by The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, in collaboration with the Department of Middle East Studies, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.

This event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is welcomed, but it is not required for UM Faculty and students.

RSVP by January 25, 2019 at: dantemichigan.org

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:14:59 -0500 2019-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Boccaccini Lecture Poster
"Taxing Identities": The Impact of 'Pardon Taxes' on Converso Identity (January 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57440 57440-14193512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture will reassess Converso-Sephardi identities, especially in early modern Portugal. Stuczynski will explore the archeology of the term "men of the nation," as the Portuguese New Christians or Conversos were named, by searching its chronological appearance, function, and semantic field. He will also discuss the extant lists of Converso "pardon tax payers" and those who tried to prove their non-inclusion in these lists through dispensations in order to be dissociated from the "men of the nation" group. This lecture will analyze these sources in a way that attempts to change the way we perceive Converso identity. Instead of depicting it in passive terms of imposed and/or inherited ethnicity, or in loose terms of Converso memory, an analysis of the lists of tax pardon payers and documents of pardon dispensations implies an engaging construction of Converso identities Stuczynski calls: "negotiations of belonging."

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:29:22 -0500 2019-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Claude Stuczynski
He is Still Israel? Conversion and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages (February 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57447 57447-14193519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In the Middle Ages, Jews often faced pressure to convert to Christianity or Islam. While some did so out of conviction and others out of practical convenience, many in the Christian world converted as a response to pressure or force. A small number also sought conversion to Judaism. How did fellow Jews view converts and apostates in their midst? Did they distinguish between Jews who chose to leave the fold and those who were anusim, or "forced ones”? A traditional rabbinical theme that “Even though he sinned, he is still Israel” (BT Sanhedrin 44a) often guided discussion of how to deal with conversion, and not all were in agreement about the rights of a Jew to return to the fold. By the same token, not all could agree on the status of one who left his own religion to claim a Jewish faith and identity. This talk will present the stories of a variety of converts, including one story of forced “conversion” from Karaism within the Jewish community itself—to explore how changing religion affected the understanding of Jewish identity in the Middle Ages.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:25:20 -0500 2019-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Szpiech
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages (February 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52918 52918-13142328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world, addressing connectivity and mobility of the globe c. 500-1600 CE. What work does the idea of “the medieval” do, and for whom? What do we gain and what do we lose by insisting on a shared notion of the medieval? By conceiving of a more diverse Middle Ages characterized by mobility and connectedness rather than isolation and limited travel? This symposium will explore what the “medieval” means for scholars of various geographic regions, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in hopes of facilitating a dramatic shift in our visions of what it means to do medieval history, and the meaning of global history more broadly.

Please see the conference website for the program and registration details.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Dec 2018 13:08:18 -0500 2019-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Conference / Symposium Tisch Hall
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages (February 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52918 52918-13142329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world, addressing connectivity and mobility of the globe c. 500-1600 CE. What work does the idea of “the medieval” do, and for whom? What do we gain and what do we lose by insisting on a shared notion of the medieval? By conceiving of a more diverse Middle Ages characterized by mobility and connectedness rather than isolation and limited travel? This symposium will explore what the “medieval” means for scholars of various geographic regions, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in hopes of facilitating a dramatic shift in our visions of what it means to do medieval history, and the meaning of global history more broadly.

Please see the conference website for the program and registration details.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Dec 2018 13:08:18 -0500 2019-02-09T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Conference / Symposium Tisch Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Circumcision (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49431 49431-11453775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on health, tradition, and mutilation.

Readings to consider:
"Male circumcision"
"Female genital alteration: a compromise solution"
"Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework"
"Rationalising circumcision"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/025-circumcision/.

Feel free to visit the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:30:45 -0400 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Circumcision
Sephardi Perspectives on the Medieval Muslim World: Benjamin of Tudela and His "Book of Travels" (February 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57448 57448-14193520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk will offer a fresh look at the best-known Jewish traveler of the Middle Ages: Benjamin ben Jonah from the city of Tudela, in modern Spain’s northeast. Focusing on selected passages from Benjamin’s twelfth-century Book of Travels, Jacobs will address the following questions: what does it mean to be a Sephardi Jew during the time of the Crusades? How does a Jewish traveler from medieval Iberia describe the Middle East? What images does he paint of Iraq, Iran, and crusader-ruled Jerusalem? Does Benjamin share certain “Western” perceptions of Islam with his Christian contemporaries? How does he portray Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations, respectively? To what extent is his Book of Travels a reliable account of his personal observations on the road, where does he take poetic license, and why? Through the lens of Benjamin’s fascinating travel account, the audience will learn about a pre-modern Jewish world spanning from Iberia to the Middle East and beyond.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:25:00 -0500 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Jacobs
Bonjour Berlin: Margrit Straßburger, German Actress-Chanteuse (February 17, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60410 60410-14875270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

German actress-chanteuse Margrit Straßburger presents a literary-musical collage about German-Jewish poet, Mascha Kaléko, whose poems capture the atmosphere of Weimar Berlin, as well as the experience of exile, with melancholy, irony and humor.

In German with piano accompaniment by Michelle Papenfuss.

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Performance Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:55:47 -0500 2019-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Bonjour Berlin
The Vanished Synagogues of Medieval Seville (February 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57450 57450-14193522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In 1388, Ferrán Martínez, a cleric at the Cathedral of Seville, complained that there were twenty-three synagogues in the city and threatened to demolish them all if given a chance. A few years later, in 1391, Martínez’s threat became reality when hundreds of Seville’s Jews were massacred during a violent riot, and the community’s synagogues were destroyed or converted into churches. How were Seville’s Jews able to construct many new houses of worship in the city, dodging secular and ecclesiastical prohibitions? Why did synagogues become the focal point of Martínez’s anti-Jewish campaign? The talk will attempt to answer these questions while examining Jewish life in the kingdom of Castile just before the tragic events of 1391 changed it forever.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:24:34 -0500 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Soifer
What is Sephardi about Sephardi Thought? (February 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57442 57442-14193513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Sephardi Jewry produced major Jewish thinkers in the Middle Ages, from philosophers like Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Hasdai Crescas; to mystics like Nahmanides and Moses de Leon. Among the philosophers, there were those who adopted extreme rationalism in the guise of Greek philosophy, while others were moderate rationalists, questioning the conclusions reached by the philosophers, especially those that seemed to undermine Jewish tradition. Among the mystics, some tried to preserve their traditions among a small circle of adepts, while others advocated the widespread distribution of mystical ideas. Sephardi legalists also incorporated theological ideas in their legal decisions. The lecture will discuss whether there is something specifically Sephardi which is characteristic of Iberian Jewish thinkers and the implications of Sephardi thought for Sephardi identity after the expulsion and into the modern period.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:54:15 -0500 2019-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lasker
Wit, Wisdom, and Wonderment: The Culture of the Jews of Islamic Spain (February 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57449 57449-14193521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk explores the society and rich cultural production and values of the Jews of Islamic Spain from 900-1200, the period often referred to as the “Golden Age” of the Jews of Spain. It also reflects on the historical significance of this period and its meaning for our world today.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:24:48 -0500 2019-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Brann
MES Lecture Series - Israel Through A Colored Lens: African-American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis (March 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61113 61113-15036262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This lecture explores African-American interactions with Middle Eastern Jewish (Mizrahi) Israelis in the 1950s and 1960s, highlighting how African-Americans navigated race and their observations on racial dynamics in Israel. Roby focuses on the travels of scholar and social worker Ida B. Jiggetts, who wrote extensively on the social positioning of North African and Yemenite Jewish immigrants to Israel. He concludes with reflections on how Israeli Jewish racial constructs influence current-day societal issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:49:10 -0500 2019-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Event poster
Belin Lecture: Prisoners of Zion: American Jews, Human Rights, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57438 57438-14193510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Judaic Studies

29th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs

2018 marks the 70th anniversary of two momentous events in 20th-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied together in the ongoing debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, global antisemitism, and American foreign policy. Yet today American Jews are increasingly divided on the subject of Israel and human rights. Many on the Jewish Right and the Jewish Left increasingly imagine Zionism and international human rights as intrinsically incompatible – though they differ in their reasoning. Drawing on his recent book, Rooted Cosmopolitans, Professor Loeffler will discuss the deeper historical roots of this divide and its implications for the future of American Jewish politics.

Driving
From the parking lot, use the elevator at the east end of the parking structure (stairwell number 2), closest to Washtenaw Avenue and Palmer Field. Take the elevator to Plaza Level (PL on the key pad). Proceed north onto the walkway to the main entrance of Palmer Commons where the Washtenaw Avenue pedestrian bridge begins. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor). Using the stairs or elevator, continue to any floor.

Walking
From Central Campus (Michigan League)
From the Michigan League, access the walkway between the School of Dentistry and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Proceed east, passing North Hall, the Undergraduate Science Building and the Life Sciences Institute. Continue east onto the walkway overlooking Washtenaw Avenue to the main entrance of Palmer Commons. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor).

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:29:42 -0500 2019-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion James Loeffler
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 14, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:30am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-14T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 15, 2019 8:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 8:15am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-15T08:15:00-04:00 2019-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58374 58374-14491981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers
23rd Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 15-16, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?

Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture.

Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

SCHEDULE:
15th March, Friday
10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast
10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks
10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Activism
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel
Panel Papers:
Mina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”
Elisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”
Seon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Panel 2: Untranslatability
Respondent: Maya Barzilai
Panel Papers:
Corbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”
Aaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”
Elias Pitegoff: “What Remains; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”
2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Panel 3: Violence and Witnessing
Respondent: Tatjana Aleksić
Panel Papers:
Martha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty
Nina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”
Kristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception
5.30 pm - 7 pm
Keynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question, or when silence is the only answer”

16th March, Saturday:
9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast
9.30 am - 11 am
Panel 4: Sounding Queer Desire
Respondent: Shira Schwartz
Panel Papers:
Benjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants, LGBTQ Inclusion, and Religious Devotion”
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism, Violence, and White Heteronostalgia”
Amanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm
Panel 5: Poetics
Respondent: Yopie Prins
Panel Papers:
Lisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness
Jasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”
Sara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”
12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch
2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm
Panel 6: Silence, Address, Redress
Respondent: Liz Wingrove
Nathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”
Luiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”
Grace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”
4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks
7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore

Grace Zanotti, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun
CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
cliff.complit@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:13:45 -0500 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Poster
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 15, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 12:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-15T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58374 58374-14491982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers
23rd Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 15-16, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?

Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture.

Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

SCHEDULE:
15th March, Friday
10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast
10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks
10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Activism
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel
Panel Papers:
Mina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”
Elisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”
Seon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Panel 2: Untranslatability
Respondent: Maya Barzilai
Panel Papers:
Corbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”
Aaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”
Elias Pitegoff: “What Remains; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”
2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Panel 3: Violence and Witnessing
Respondent: Tatjana Aleksić
Panel Papers:
Martha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty
Nina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”
Kristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception
5.30 pm - 7 pm
Keynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question, or when silence is the only answer”

16th March, Saturday:
9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast
9.30 am - 11 am
Panel 4: Sounding Queer Desire
Respondent: Shira Schwartz
Panel Papers:
Benjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants, LGBTQ Inclusion, and Religious Devotion”
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism, Violence, and White Heteronostalgia”
Amanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm
Panel 5: Poetics
Respondent: Yopie Prins
Panel Papers:
Lisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness
Jasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”
Sara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”
12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch
2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm
Panel 6: Silence, Address, Redress
Respondent: Liz Wingrove
Nathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”
Luiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”
Grace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”
4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks
7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore

Grace Zanotti, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun
CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
cliff.complit@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:13:45 -0500 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Poster
The Jewish Future is Feminist (March 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61706 61706-15170154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The world is changing and so is Jewish feminism. At this critical juncture, the University of Michigan School of Social Work’s Jewish Communal Leadership Program (JCLP) has brought together three unique individuals who center feminism as a Jewish value. Join JCLP and April Baskin, Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann and Sarah Hurwitz as we relate the legacies of Jewish feminism to what it means to confront today’s opportunities and challenges. These pioneering women are bringing together traditional and innovative approaches in order to create communities that center women, Jews of Color, gender nonconforming people, and other marginalized peoples.

Presented as part of the Frankel Speaker series with generous support from: Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, The Covenant Foundation, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, University of Michigan College of Literature Science and the Arts Women’s Studies Department, The Diversity Equity and Inclusion Office at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, The University of Michigan William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center, The University of Michigan Hillel, The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Beth Israel Congregation and Robert Aronson.

Please join JCLP on Sunday March 17, 2019 from 12-3pm at the Educational Conference Center at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Doors open at 12 pm, with light refreshments, and the program will be begin at 12:30pm.

We hope that you can join us for a memorable afternoon!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:34:56 -0500 2019-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Lecture / Discussion The Jewish Future is Feminist
"Race" in Christianity and Islam: the Case of Converts from Judaism (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57443 57443-14193515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Race and racism are important concepts, but their history is challenging. On the one hand, most historians (and biologists) today do not believe that biological race exists. On the other hand, they do not doubt that racial concepts played powerful roles in some (but not all!) periods in the past. How can we tell when a concept we encounter in the past is “racial”? And what do the racial concepts of one period in the past have to do with those of another? Can we speak of “the origins of race” in any particular period or place? These are the questions addressed in this talk, which focuses on times and places in which conversion from Judaism to Christianity or Islam has produced the idea that religious characteristics are biologically reproduced.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:27:06 -0500 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion David Nirenberg
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought V | On Reading (March 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62193 62193-15311067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dialogues in Contemporary Thought V | On Reading, will consist of two lectures. "Alphabetographies," by Prof. Cadava, will consider the photographic work of Susan Meiselas in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Kurdistan, and investigate her claim of being "attracted like a magnet to mass graves, destroyed villages, the missing." Prof. Cadava will then consider why photography is a privileged means of documenting violence, and the forms of resistance made available by it. "We have been misreading the camps," by Prof. Paloff, will re-evaluate the moral claims attached to camp literature, and propose an alternative ethics that embraces the reader's individual experience, and the community's memory of the past. The lectures are open to everyone. Questions - email: srdjan@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:10:15 -0400 2019-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Dialogues in Contemporary Thought | On Reading
Workshop | Erasures (March 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62195 62195-15311066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Prof. Cadava will lead a workshop on the Introduction of an unpublished book manuscript, which focuses on Fazal Sheikh's "The Erasure Trilogy," a three-volume photographic project on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Introduction, and two further texts, will be pre-circulated to all who sign up for the workshop. If you are interested, please contact srdjan@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:25:33 -0400 2019-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Workshop | Erasures
Influence of Biblical Cantillations on Art Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries (March 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57693 57693-14263397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The oldest part of Jewish music culture is the ritualized presentation of texts from the Hebrew Bible (tanakh) organized through a complex and highly diversified system of strict musical rules and distinct motifs (cantillations). This system was essentially created during the Biblical times; it was then passed on orally for several centuries and codified in the 9th century with special signs (teamim). Since the beginning of the 20th century, the motifs of biblical cantillations have been perceived by Jewish composers as the “most authentic” part of the Jewish musical tradition and used as a source of inspiration and “building material” in many works. As a rule, in this context the motifs of cantillation lost their connection to the liturgy and their direct relation to the text and were merely identified as the musical embodiment of the Jewishness. By their archaic character and their shortness of breath they also significantly influenced the musical style of the new Jewish art music.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

The lecture is part of a two-day residency, "Jewish Art Music in Interwar Europe". Dr. Nemtsov will join School of Music, Theatre & Dance students and alumni in two concerts of Jewish art music.
Concerts are free and open to the public with receptions to follow.

Location:
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
E.V. Moore Building, 1100 Baits Drive in Britton Recital Hall.

Monday, March 25, 8 pm
Works by Juliusz Wolfsohn, Alexander Weprik, Alberto Hemsi, Leo Zeitlin, Jacob Schoenberg, and Josef Achron for piano, voice, woodwinds, and strings

Tuesday March 26, 8 pm
Works by Alexander Krein, Janot Roskin, Joachim Stutschewsky, Lazare Saminsky, Viktor Ullman, and Julius Chajes for piano, voice, clarinet, and strings

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:03:40 -0500 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jascha Nemstov
Institute Symposium: Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern (March 27, 2019 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57437 57437-14193508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:45am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

March 27
8:45 a.m. - Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session 1: Tradition and Innovation in Twelfth-Century al-Andalus
Chair: Samer Ali
Marc Herman, "The Oral Torah as Ideology in al-Andalus"
Ehud Krinis, "Galut and Ghurba: Existential and Historical Exile in the Thought of Bahya ibn Paqūda and Judah Halevi"

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Andalusi Self-Fashioning
Chair: Elliot Ginsburg
Ross Brann, "Judah al-Ḥarizi: A Self-Styled Andalusi Arabist-Hebraist from Late Twelfth–Early Thirteenth-Century Christian Toledo"
Moshe Yagur, "To Be or Not to Be a Sephardi: the Case of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel"

1:45 p.m. ‒ 4:00 p.m.
Session 3: Identity through the Lens of Polemic
Chair: Hussein Fancy
Ryan Szpiech: "Jews Forcing Jews: The Legend of the Qaraites on the Eve of 1391"
Mònica Colominas Aparicio: "Sephardic Exceptionalism in Muslim anti-Jewish Polemics from Christian Iberia"
Harvey J. Hames, "Lost Identities? Conversions from Profiat Duran to Anselm Turmeda"

4:15 p.m. ‒ 5:45 p.m.
Plenary Lecture
Miriam Bodian, "The ‘Sephardim': An Imagined Diaspora?"

Sephardic music concert: “Nochada”
Performed by Leahaliza Lee and ensemble
March 27, 8:15 p.m.
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N Fourth Ave


March 28
9:00 a.m. ‒ 11:15 a.m.
Session 5: Social Networks of Sephardi Life
Chair: Ryan Szpiech
Maya Soifer Irish, "The Identity of Jewish Elites in Christian Andalusia and Toledo (13th & 14th centuries)"
Ilil Baum, "Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon: between Arabic and Catalan Cultures"
Mark Meyerson, "The Rocky Road to Assimilation: Converso-Old Christian Intermarriage in the Late 15th Century"

11:30 a.m. ‒ 1:00 p.m.
Session 6: Medieval Myths and Modern Nationalism
Chair: Bryan Roby
Devi Mays, "Marking Elite Status: Sephardi Opium Dealers in the Late Ottoman World"
S.J. Pearce, "More Spanish than Cervantes: Hayim Nahman Bialik, Sephardic Identity, and the Fate of a Hebrew Quixote."

2:00 p.m. ‒ 4:15 p.m.
Session 7: Historiography and Communal Memory
Chair: Kenneth Mills
Vasileios Syros, "Fate and Political Decline in Sephardic and Byzantine Historiography"
Martin Jacobs, "Sephardi Identity and the Rhetorical Conquest of the Americas: Joseph ha-Kohen’s Subversive Readings of Gómara"
Brian Hamm, "Rebuilding out of the Ashes: Sephardic Connections to Colonial Spanish America, 1650‒1750"

4:30 p.m. ‒ 6:00 p.m.
Session 8: Concluding Plenary Session: Exile and Belief
Chair: Jeffrey Veidlinger
Matthew Goldish, "Some Aspects of Sephardi Identity Reflected in Post-Expulsion Rabbinic Responsa"
Jonathan Ray, "Did the Sephardim Believe their Myths? Social History and the Limits of Medieval Sephardic Culture."

6:00 p.m. – Closing Remarks

Before the contemporary period, the Jews of Sepharad (Iberia) were regularly depicted—and regularly depicted themselves—as part of a unique and exclusive group, more distinguished than the Jews of other lands. What are the origins of this traditional claim to Sephardic exceptionalism? How were traditional claims enhanced or altered by the decline in Jewish-Christian relations in the Christian kingdoms of Iberia in the later Middle Ages and by the eventual expulsion of the Sephardim, first from the Spanish kingdoms in 1492 and then from Portugal in 1496? “Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern” looks at Sephardic myths of identity from a diachronic perspective, bringing together papers both on the origins of Sephardic exceptionalism within medieval Sephardic communities themselves and on the evolution of such notions under pressure from forced conversion and inquisition, expulsion and diaspora, and ghettoization and emancipation.


The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The assembly hall is on the fourth floor.
If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:06:48 -0400 2019-03-27T08:45:00-04:00 2019-03-27T18:45:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Institute Symposium
Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern Symposium Concert (March 27, 2019 8:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61427 61427-15099340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

As a part of the Frankel Institute's Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern symposium, Leahaliza Lee will be performing a concert of Sephardic music

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Performance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:07:39 -0500 2019-03-27T20:15:00-04:00 2019-03-27T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Performance Institute Symposium
Institute Symposium: Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern (March 28, 2019 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57437 57437-14193509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:45am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

March 27
8:45 a.m. - Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session 1: Tradition and Innovation in Twelfth-Century al-Andalus
Chair: Samer Ali
Marc Herman, "The Oral Torah as Ideology in al-Andalus"
Ehud Krinis, "Galut and Ghurba: Existential and Historical Exile in the Thought of Bahya ibn Paqūda and Judah Halevi"

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Andalusi Self-Fashioning
Chair: Elliot Ginsburg
Ross Brann, "Judah al-Ḥarizi: A Self-Styled Andalusi Arabist-Hebraist from Late Twelfth–Early Thirteenth-Century Christian Toledo"
Moshe Yagur, "To Be or Not to Be a Sephardi: the Case of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel"

1:45 p.m. ‒ 4:00 p.m.
Session 3: Identity through the Lens of Polemic
Chair: Hussein Fancy
Ryan Szpiech: "Jews Forcing Jews: The Legend of the Qaraites on the Eve of 1391"
Mònica Colominas Aparicio: "Sephardic Exceptionalism in Muslim anti-Jewish Polemics from Christian Iberia"
Harvey J. Hames, "Lost Identities? Conversions from Profiat Duran to Anselm Turmeda"

4:15 p.m. ‒ 5:45 p.m.
Plenary Lecture
Miriam Bodian, "The ‘Sephardim': An Imagined Diaspora?"

Sephardic music concert: “Nochada”
Performed by Leahaliza Lee and ensemble
March 27, 8:15 p.m.
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N Fourth Ave


March 28
9:00 a.m. ‒ 11:15 a.m.
Session 5: Social Networks of Sephardi Life
Chair: Ryan Szpiech
Maya Soifer Irish, "The Identity of Jewish Elites in Christian Andalusia and Toledo (13th & 14th centuries)"
Ilil Baum, "Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon: between Arabic and Catalan Cultures"
Mark Meyerson, "The Rocky Road to Assimilation: Converso-Old Christian Intermarriage in the Late 15th Century"

11:30 a.m. ‒ 1:00 p.m.
Session 6: Medieval Myths and Modern Nationalism
Chair: Bryan Roby
Devi Mays, "Marking Elite Status: Sephardi Opium Dealers in the Late Ottoman World"
S.J. Pearce, "More Spanish than Cervantes: Hayim Nahman Bialik, Sephardic Identity, and the Fate of a Hebrew Quixote."

2:00 p.m. ‒ 4:15 p.m.
Session 7: Historiography and Communal Memory
Chair: Kenneth Mills
Vasileios Syros, "Fate and Political Decline in Sephardic and Byzantine Historiography"
Martin Jacobs, "Sephardi Identity and the Rhetorical Conquest of the Americas: Joseph ha-Kohen’s Subversive Readings of Gómara"
Brian Hamm, "Rebuilding out of the Ashes: Sephardic Connections to Colonial Spanish America, 1650‒1750"

4:30 p.m. ‒ 6:00 p.m.
Session 8: Concluding Plenary Session: Exile and Belief
Chair: Jeffrey Veidlinger
Matthew Goldish, "Some Aspects of Sephardi Identity Reflected in Post-Expulsion Rabbinic Responsa"
Jonathan Ray, "Did the Sephardim Believe their Myths? Social History and the Limits of Medieval Sephardic Culture."

6:00 p.m. – Closing Remarks

Before the contemporary period, the Jews of Sepharad (Iberia) were regularly depicted—and regularly depicted themselves—as part of a unique and exclusive group, more distinguished than the Jews of other lands. What are the origins of this traditional claim to Sephardic exceptionalism? How were traditional claims enhanced or altered by the decline in Jewish-Christian relations in the Christian kingdoms of Iberia in the later Middle Ages and by the eventual expulsion of the Sephardim, first from the Spanish kingdoms in 1492 and then from Portugal in 1496? “Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern” looks at Sephardic myths of identity from a diachronic perspective, bringing together papers both on the origins of Sephardic exceptionalism within medieval Sephardic communities themselves and on the evolution of such notions under pressure from forced conversion and inquisition, expulsion and diaspora, and ghettoization and emancipation.


The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The assembly hall is on the fourth floor.
If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:06:48 -0400 2019-03-28T08:45:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:45:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Institute Symposium
CPPS/Frankel Lecture. Space and Spirit, or How to make a Historical Atlas of Hasidism (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57605 57605-14220074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Marcin Wodzinski has produced the first cartographic reference book on Hasidism, one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. In this lecture, he will discuss Hasidism's emergence and expansion in Eastern Europe; its spread to the New World; and its remarkable postwar rebirth. Wodzinski’s innovative mapping allows him to show to what extent Hasidism dominated the Eastern European Jewry, which Hasidic dynasties were strongest and why, and how the Hasidim resurrected in the Post-Holocaust era.

Marcin Wodziński (b. 1966) was born and raised in Silesia, Poland. He currently works at the Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland, where he is professor of Jewish history and literature. His research focuses on the history and culture of East European Jews in modern times, especially the Haskalah and Hasidism. Of his recent publications, he is most proud of "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (2018) and "Hasidism: Key Questions" (2018).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:08:24 -0500 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Annual Middle East Poetry Night (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61926 61926-15239150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The Department of Middle East Studies is pleased to announce its fourth annual Poetry Night, with snacks and readings of poetry from across the languages and cultures we study as a community. Students, faculty, and friends are all welcome and encouraged to join the festivities!

Wednesday, April 3, 5:30–7:30 pm
Hussey, Michigan League
911 N University Ave

If you plan to attend this event, please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/nAz3xosQZH5Nz9Fo2 by March 26.

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Performance Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:18:27 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T19:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Performance poetry
Jeroboam in Medieval Jewish Thought (April 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57445 57445-14193517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Jeroboam Ben Nabat, a pretender to the throne of ancient Israel who had created a rival cult outside of Jerusalem replete with golden calves dedicated to the worship of Yahweh (1 Kings 15), was a contested figure within medieval Jewish thought. Post-biblical sources tend either to magnify or diminish the severity of the king’s error. This paper will study how Jeroboam’s image was shaped through forces of intra- and inter-religious polemic and served as a focal point for contemplating issues of Jewish orthodoxy and heterodoxy as well as the nature and boundaries of idolatry.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:25:36 -0500 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jonathan Decter
Who Will Write Our History? (April 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63057 63057-15543236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day
The new documentary, Who Will Write Our History, about the secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, will have a community screening April 29, at 7:30 at the Michigan Theater.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Jeffrey Veidlinger, Genevieve Zubrzycki, and facilitated by Sarah Raful Whinston

Who Will Write Our History, based on Samuel Kassow’s book, is about historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who gathered a secret band of journalists, scholars, and artists imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to collect and record the story of the war from the Jewish point of view. Known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, their goal was to defy their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth. They risked everything so that their archive would survive, even if they did not.

https://whowillwriteourhistory.com/

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Film Screening Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:01:14 -0400 2019-04-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Film Screening Who Will Write Our History
Guest Recital: Yuval Rabin, organ (July 10, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63499 63499-15759483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Israeli-Swiss concert organist Yuval Rabin will perform his own "Smirot Fantasy," works of Jewish composers Chajes, Lewandowski, Alexander and Sheriff, and works of German composers who influenced them.

Born in Haifa, Israel in 1973, Rabin has studied at the Dunie Weizmann Conservatory in Haifa, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensas in Switzerland. He participates in festivals and performs internationally with ensembles, orchestras and choirs. His compact discs include “Organ Music from Israel” and works of C.P.E Bach and Mendelssohn.

Rabin currently lives in Basel, Switzerland, but remains active in Israel’s musical life, holding master classes there and directing the annual Israel International Organ Festival under the auspices of the Israel Organ Association. He also composes and writes poetry.

Presented by the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

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Performance Tue, 07 May 2019 12:15:03 -0400 2019-07-10T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
MEMS Fall Kick-off (September 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65055 65055-16509316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

MEMS community members are invited to meet and catch up after the summer break. Presentations will feature our Summer Research Award recipients.

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Other Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:57:59 -0400 2019-09-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Other Gathering in a garden
The Expulsion of Hagar (September 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64900 64900-16485242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In the book of Genesis, Hagar is an Egyptian, an enslaved woman, a surrogate, a wife, and a mother. As the wife of Abraham and the mother of Ishmael, she is a recognized figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. At the request of Sarah, Abraham’s first wife and mother of Isaac, Abraham expels Hagar and Ishmael from his household. In this lecture, Nyasha Junior surveys how different religious and cultural traditions have understood Sarah’s motivations and actions. The lecture is based on Dr. Junior’s recent book Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2019). Join us and follow the conversation on Twitter at #ReHagar.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:33:36 -0400 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Expulsion_of_Ishmael_and_His_Mother
Gala Mukomolova Poetry Reading and Book Signing (September 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64358 64358-16332357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish, post-Soviet, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian― through a Russian fable.

Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised poet and essayist. She is the author of the chapbook One Above One Below: Positions and Lamentations (YesYes Books 2018). She received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her past residencies include Vermont Studio Center, Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists and The Pink Door. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, PEN American, PANK and elsewhere. She writes articles on astrology for NYLON and is cohost of the podcast Big Dyke Energy.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:16:40 -0400 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Gala.Mukomolova.headshot