Arthur Kiron, Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Jan 20, 2023
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This talk is meant to spur discussion about the way in which digital technologies may help mediate between the competing claims of private property ownership rights and public interest in material cultural heritage.…
PROFESSOR STEVEN WEITZMAN
Ella Darivoff Director, Herbert D Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies: Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and…
Inaugural Lorraine Beitler Research Fellow Lecture
Nov 30, 2022
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Professor Lauren Lockshin (Lander College for Women, Touro University) will trace how a small group of allies coalesced to combat antisemitism in defence of accused military officer Alfred Dreyfus.
This is the 37th Annual Joseph Alexander Colloquium in the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Joseph Alexander Foundation and the Mackler Family.
NOVELIST MORIEL ROTHMAN-ZECHER
Reading from his new novel Before All the World
Hosted by Huda Fahkreddine
Co-sponsored by the Kutchin Seminar Series in the Jewish Studies Program, the Middle East Center…
26th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture in Judaic Studies
James Loeffler (University of Virginia)
Oct 27, 2022
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Today Justice Louis Brandeis is regarded as an icon of American liberalism. Yet even as he transformed American law and democracy in his time, the lawyer known as the “Jewish Thomas Jefferson” resisted fully applying…
Please join us for an exciting public lecture about the revival of Modern Hebrew. The speaker is Gil Hovav, great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben-Yehuda was the driving force behind the incredible rebirth of a "…
In this lecture, Shalom Sabar examines the historical contexts, decorative elements, and family relationships of representative examples of Middle Eastern Jewish marriage contracts from the Benjamin Zucker Family…