Past Events

Events



Senior Research Presentations

Apr 27, 2022 at

Penn’s Jewish Studies Program Celebrates Undergraduate Student Research:Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa, Ayelet Rubenstein, and Samuel…



"From Ancestry DNA to Pig Heart Transplants: Jewish Medical Ethics Update Spring 2022" with Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman

Apr 26, 2022 at

A Jewish Studies Program Meltzer Intern Event

 

Conversation with Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman

 "From Ancestry DNA to Pig Heart Transplants: Jewish Medical Ethics Update Spring 2022"



Discussion of Winter/Spring 2022 ’Soviet Issue,’ featuring guest editor Julia Alekseyeva

Apr 5, 2022 at

Jewish Currents invites everyone to a reading, discussion, and celebration of the Winter/Spring 2022 'Soviet Issue,' featuring guest editor Julia Alekseyeva and contributors Greg Afinogenov, Alina Pleskova, and Egina…



Poems & Stories by the Cheburashka Collective

Mar 24, 2022 at -

Poems & Stories by the Cheburashka Collective

A reading of original works by a collective of writers from countries once part of the Eastern bloc

 

Date: March 24, 2022 at 6:00 PM



Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism with Jelena Subotic

Mar 18, 2022 at -

Book talk by Dr. Jelena Subotic, speaking on her new book, Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism.

The event will also be live streamed on REES Department's:…



Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Religious Roots of Progressive Politics with Julian E. Zelizer

Feb 22, 2022 at -

Join Professor Julian Zelizer for his book talk on Abraham Joshua Heschel.



How to Read a Cookbook: Cuisine and the Nation in Ottolenghi’s London with Harry Eli Kashdan

Jan 31, 2022 at

Join us by Zoom on January 31, 2022, at 3pm EST, for a talk and discussion with Harry Eli Kashdan on the theme of “How to Read a Cookbook: Cuisine and the Nation in Ottolenghi's London.”  This event forms part of…



What I Learned After Writing ’Learning From the Germans’ with Susan Neiman

Nov 10, 2021 at -

     In Learning from the Germans, published in Fall 2019, Susan Neiman argued that Germany was far ahead of the United States in what Germans call Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung and…



Israel After Netanyahu: How Much Will Change? A Panel Discussion

Oct 5, 2021 at

Israel After Netanyahu: How Much Will Change?: A Panel Discussion

Shira Efron, Dana El Kurd, Ian Lustick, Yofi Tirosh, and moderator Nathaniel Shils



Spinoza After Marx

May 27, 2021 - May 29, 2021 at -

We are pleased to invite you to a three-day online event, "Spinoza after Marx" (May 27-29). You may register here and join the…