Past Events

Events



Special PSCO session reflecting on the impact of David Stern’s scholarship on and beyond Midrash

Apr 28, 2015 at -

As many of you may have heard, David Stern has been offered a professorship at Harvard University, where he will begin teaching next fall. In keeping with this year’s theme on historiography, we’re thus adding a…



Gruss Colloquium: “Doing Wissenschaft: The Academic Study of Judaism as Practice 1818–2018"

Apr 27, 2015 - Apr 28, 2015 at -

Gruss Colloquium: Monday April 27- Tuesday April 28 with the title: “Doing Wissenschaft: The Academic Study of Judaism as Practice 1818–2018.”

The full details can now be…



Student Research Presentations

Apr 24, 2015 at -

Please join us as the following students share their research: 

 

Madeleine Brown: "Roman Virtus and Greek Ἀνδρεία in Jewish Writing: Examining Cultural Integration Through Changes…



Screening of "Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being" and Q&A with Director Josh Waletzky

Apr 16, 2015 at -

CHAVA ROSENFARB: THAT BUBBLE OF BEING IS COMING TO PENN!

Q & A WITH DIRECTOR JOSH WALETZKY 

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In the acclaimed Josh Waletzky film Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being (…



Film Screening of Zaytoun followed by Discussion

Mar 26, 2015 at -

Film Screening of Zaytoun followed by DiscussionFood catered by Mama's Vegetarian

Sponsored by Penn's Jewish Studies Program Bassini Internship Program. Organized by undergraduates Daniel Brooks, Jovonnie…



Outside of Russia: Graduate Student Conference

Mar 19, 2015 - Mar 20, 2015 at -

OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA

MARCH 19-20, 2015

 

March 19, 2015: Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street

Keynote Address: “Manchuria: Conflicting Memories” (6pm) by…



Symposium: Solomon Schechter’s Life and Legacy: American Transformations (1902–1915)

Mar 16, 2015 at -

Solomon Schechter’s Life and Legacy:  American Transformations (1902–1915)

Monday, March 16, 2015



“Regaining Jerusalem: Eschatology and Slavery in Jewish Colonization in 17-Century Suriname”

Mar 3, 2015 at

Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

With an introduction by Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania/Collège de France

Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, author of The Return of Martin…



Jewish Scholarship and the Jewish Orient: The Aleppo Codex and other Cases

Feb 23, 2015 at -

Professor Noah Gerber of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and current Katz Center fellow, will be giving a lecture on “Jewish Scholarship and the Jewish Orient: The Aleppo Codex and other Cases.” The lecture…



Lincoln’s Jewish Telegrapher and the Emancipation Proclamation

Feb 17, 2015 at

Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania