Previous Events | Center for Jewish Studies (2024)

Atrocities’ Truth Tellers: Armenian and Jewish Victim Testimony in Interwar Europe Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question” Book Panel: “When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash” American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York The City Without Jews: A Centenary Film Soirée Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? Part 2. The Debate Over Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Understanding the Terms and the Stakes Soul House: A Poetry Reading with Mireille Gansel and Joan Seliger Sidney Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? Part 1: Anti-Zionism on Campus: Legitimate Protest or Dangerous Hate Speech? Negotiating the “Double-Minded Vocabulaire”: Montreal’s Jewish Communities and Contemporary Quebec God’s Body in Pain: Disability and Divine Solidarity in Jewish Text and Tradition Transmitting Anne Frank to Gen Z Do They Really Belong? Modern Israeli “Tribes” and the Dilemma of Ex-Soviet Israelis Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Purity Transing the Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature Symposium: Jews and Other Groups Who Resisted the Nazis: Means, Motivations, and Limitations Dismantling White Nationalism: An Intersectional Approach – with Eric K. Ward How Antisemitism Shapes White Nationalism – Eric K. Ward The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance and Survival in the Holocaust Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (Annual Pell Lecture) Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel The Jew as Other and The Other White Meat: Pigs and Jewish Identity Shared Appeals to Different Gods: Jews, Christians and Medieval Prayer (Helen Diller Annual Lecture) Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry The Social Role of the Deli in American Jewish Life Saharan Vichy Camps between Memory and Memorialization: A Graphic History Beyond the Temple: Jewish Material Identity from the Hasmoneans to Herod In Twilight. Ori Sherman’s Creation Exhibition Reception and Program Elective Affinities: A Cultural History of Friendship among German Jews, 1888-1938 Special Exhibit | Anatomy of Torture: Testimonies from the Berkeley Archive Exhibit Opening and Book Launch | Anatomy of Torture: Testimonies from the Berkeley Archive Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German Speaking Lands Exhibition Reception and Program Roman Vishniac. In Focus: 1922-2022 (Day 2) Roman Vishniac. In Focus: 1922-2022 (Day 1) In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (Annual Pell Endowed Lecture) Letters from the Abyss: Jewish Travelogues on Jewish Life in Nazi Germany in the Yiddish Press of Warsaw “Guides who Helped Jews Flee from France to Spain across the Pyrenees: 1940-1944” “Ottomans After Empire: Sephardi Immigrant Space and Daily Life in Interwar Paris” “Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center” “Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto: Jews, Christians, and Epidemic Disease in an Early Modern City” Satmar Hasidism: History, Ideology, and Sociology The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood: A Book Talk with Mark Oppenheimer “The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past” Race and Responsibility: A Conversation on Black-Jewish Relations and the Fight for Equal Justice “Hitler’s Laboratory: How Munich Became the Capital of Antisemitism After World War I” Harry Potter in Yiddish: Translating Across Languages and Cultures Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir Ode to Energy: Einstein, Feynman, and Oppenheimer at Mid-Century Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land The Song of Songs: A Biography Jews and Race De-Integration? Judaism and the Theater of Memory in Contemporary Germany (in English) Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism The Song of Songs: A Biography Tapestry of Tongues: The Multilingual Matrix of Modern Hebrew Literature Antisemitism Here and Now Cold Case in Constantine: Anti-Jewish Violence and the Colonial Situation in French Algeria In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Diller Lecture: Neo-Hasidism and Neo-Kabbalah – Privatised Uses of Traditional Lore Jewish Disputes, Early Modern Courts, and Legal Pluralism Still Lives: Jewish Photography under Nazism (co-sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies) The Invention of Religion: Jews in Babylon and the Evidence of Language and Literature Remembering the Ephemeral: the Ritual Architecture of Sukkot in Contemporary Life Unlikely Refuge: Survivors, Aid Organizations and Local Communities in WWII Uzbekistan and Iran Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France and What It Means for Us Protectors of Pluralism: The Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust Hatred Old and New: The Roots and Resurgence of Antisemitism (A Panel Discussion) Michael Morgan “Wartime! Emil Fackenheim’s Unpublished Radio Addresses, 1944-1948” Aleksandra Buncic “Scribes, Illuminators and Patrons: An Illustrated Dialog in Medieval Manuscripts Steve Weitzman “How Does the Story of the Jews Begin? Recent Debates on Origins and Ancestry” Ron Hendel “How Old is the Bible?” Robert Alter “The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary” Dory Manor Yair Zakovitch “Song of Songs: Riddle of Riddles” Omer Bartov “Anatomy of a Genocide” Jason Wittenberg Ilana Pardes Jeffrey Shandler “Tales Retold: Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List” Allison Schachter “Friedrich Schiller in the Jewish Provinces: Fradel Shtok and the Aesthetics of Jewish Prose” Rabbi Jeff Summit “Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism” C. L. Seow “Job 1-21” Helen Kim–Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the American Jewish Community: Lessons learned from JewAsians Natan Meir–Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Demented of Jewish Eastern Europe Elisheva Baumgarten–Documents of Practice: Possibilities for a Non Rabbinic Perspective on Medieval Jewish Women Lisa Leff–“The Archive Thief” Amir Engel–Between Historiography and Literature: “Gershom Sholem’s Intellectual Biography” John Efron’s “Appearance Counts: Sephardic Jewry and the Creation of a German-Jewish Aesthetic” Harvest of Blossoms-CANCELED Reclaiming the Self in Jewish American Culture Graduate Student Colloquium On Jewish Heresy Lecture 3 On Jewish Heresy Lecture 2 On Jewish Heresy Lecture 1 Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story Benjamin, Kafka, and Theology Graduate Student Workshop “Jews, Germans, and other Europeans: Modern Encounters” Melting Pots Compared? Italian Jewry and Contemporary Israel | Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Book Talk | Walter Zev Feldman. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory PopUp Exhibition | Nick Underwood From Shund to Avant-garde: Yiddish Theatre in the City of Light ART AND FILM: ISRAELI FILM SERIES “Late Marriage” PopUp Exhibition | Ashley Bacchi on Hellenistic Jewish Myths and Oracles The Bagel and the Archive: Celebrating Noah’s Bagels Legacy at The Magnes PopUp Exhibition | Howard Freedman on 78rpm Records and the Sound of American Jewish Experience PopUp Exhibition | Zachary Bleemer with Aiko Gonzalez and Clayton Hale (URAP) on The Passover Haggadah: Digital Perspectives The Past Is a Foreign Country: Poland Confronted with Holocaust History ART AND FILM: ISRAELI FILM SERIES “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” “Why Can’t Alison Sell her Drill? Evidence from eBay” ROBBINS COLLECTION LECTURE ON JEWISH LAW AND THOUGHT: “Jewish Thought in American Judaism Today” PopUp Exhibition | Karen Barkey, Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Mixed Attendance at Greek Orthodox Churches in Istanbul PopUp Exhibition | Mira Amiras on The Future of a Legacy: Seymour Fromer and the Making of The Magnes SUKKAH BUILDING PARTY “THE MARRIAGE PLOT: NAOMI SEIDMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH GABRIELLA SAFRAN” “AND THEN I KILLED HIM,” WITH ANNA SHTERNSHIS “LAST YIDDISH HEROES” WITH ANNA SHTERNSHIS AND PSOY KOROLENKO ART AND FILM: ISRAELI FILM SERIES “The Band’s Visit” PopUp Exhibition | Patricia Munro and Claude Fischer on Coming of Age in Jewish America Magnes Exhibition Opening Night NAOMI SEIDMAN ON HER WORK “THE MARRIAGE PLOT” The Future of the Zohar The Poles, The Jews, and The Town of Jedwabne Chosen People? Jewish Identity Freud, Politics, and Anti-Semitism Summoned: Identity and Religion in a Haredi Neighborhood Women of the Bible: After Abel and Other Stories Festival Jewishness: Learning About Jews at Cultural Events Silent Witnesses: A One Woman Play German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic Songs from a Lost World: Singing as Resistance and Renewal in New York, 1948 Is There Such A Thing As Jewish Literature?