Events



Gruss Workshop on Jewish Law

Empire, Law, Violence and the Jews: A Late Antique and Early Medieval Workshop
Co-conveners: Professor Christine Hayes and Professor Simcha Gross
Mar 17, 2025 (All Day)

Since the 6th c. BCE, Judeans and later Jews have been organized as a distinct community living within – or in the shadow of -- a succession of empires. Jewish communal structures, models of leadership,…



The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century

Matthias Lehmann
Mar 27, 2025 at -

The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press) is an award-winning book by Matthias B. Lehmann. Prof. Lehmann will discuss his book in a Zoom webinar. 



The Scales of Suffering: Neo-Lachrymosity and the Writing of Jewish History

Mar 31, 2025 at -

Is the writing of Jewish history possible without tears and tales of woe? This was the challenge leveled nearly a hundred years ago by perhaps the most influential Jewish historian in the United States, Salo Baron.…



The History of the Hebrew Language

Steven Fassberg
Apr 1, 2025 at -

Steven Fassberg is Professor of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will deliver an introduction to the ties and connections between contemporary/Modern Hebrew language and its various ancient…



German Jews, Political Pluralism, and the History of Compromise

Philipp Nielsen
Apr 8, 2025 at -

Does being a member of a minority community offer particular perspectives on compromise?