The persecution and expulsion of Jews from Spain – orSepharad– played a pivotal role in Jewish history and collective memory. In the modern era, the historical legacy of…
What strategies can we use to recover lives and artworks nearly lost to history—especially when there is little archival material available? This talk focuses on the process of rediscovering Rahel Szalit (1888–1942…
How the New Sciences of Plague Are Changing Our Understanding of Responses to the Black Death
Nov 14, 2024
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Even before COVID-19, major rethinking was already underway about the causes, timing, and geographic spread of what is still considered the world’s worst pandemic, the Black Death of the late medieval period. Since…
The Dreyfus Affair transformed French society at the end of the nineteenth century. It also transformed the nature of Jewish identity, changing how Jews saw their place in the world and their relation to other Jews.…
