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.…
Tea Arciszewska’s play Miryeml was heralded as a powerful memorial to the million children murdered in the Holocaust. In this talk, Sonia Gollance will discuss her translation of this nearly-forgotten…
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…
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…
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…
The Jewish Studies Program invites all Hebrew-speaking members of our community to a book talk with author and Penn PhD candidate Asaf Roth on his recent novel, …
Vocal artist Victoria Hanna brings new life to ancient text through sonic interpretations of Jewish mystical and magical traditions centered on Hebrew letters. She approaches the aleph-bet with…
The term antisemitism invokes actions, arouses passions, and enflames debate. On April 7, 2024, the Jewish Studies Program of the University of Pennsylvania will host a scholarly symposium on the history, meanings,…
Even before the Hamas attack on October 7, and Israel’s response, some campuses were seeing efforts from partisans on each side to vilify, and silence, partisans on the other. How do we understand the current moment…
