Events



The Return to Sepharad: History and/as Fiction in Modern Jewish Literatures

Marina Mayorski
Oct 29, 2024 at -

Marina Mayorski is the 2024-2025 Goldin Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a BA and MA in comparative literature from Tel Aviv University. She recently…



Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit

Kerry Wallach
Nov 11, 2024 at -

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…



Plague and the Persecution of Minorities:

How the New Sciences of Plague Are Changing Our Understanding of Responses to the Black Death
Nov 14, 2024 at -

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 and the Transformation of Jewish Identity

Maurice Samuels
Dec 4, 2024 at -

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.…



Gruss Jewish Law Symposium

Christine Hayes, Simcha Gross
Mar 17, 2025 (All Day)

More information is forthcoming.



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

Mar 31, 2025 (All Day)

More information is forthcoming.