Past Events

Events



Israeli director Avi Nesher screening his film The Secrets

Nov 6, 2014 at -

Famed Israeli director Avi Nesher will be screening his film The Secrets and doing a Q&A at Penn. Director Eran Riklis, who is teaching at Penn this year, will introduce him and lead the Q&A.



Leo Strauss: Man of Peace?: A Dialogue 

Nov 5, 2014 at -

Prof. Robert Howse, New York University

Prof. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsored by the Political Science department with the cooperation of the Jewish Studies Program. 



Why Does Jewish History Matter to American History?

Nov 2, 2014 at

NMAJH Founding Historian and Chair of UPenn's History Department, Beth S. Wenger, leads a conversation with distinguished historians Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan) and…



A Tradition of Question: 
A Conversation with Kathryn Hellerstein on the Study of Yiddish Women’s Poetry

Oct 30, 2014 at -

CELEBRATING JSP AUTHOR: Prof. Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish); Undergraduate Director, Jewish Studies Program University of Pennsylvania

"A Tradition of…



Reading the Bible Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Verse of Genesis EVENT POSTPONED TO BE RESCHEDULED IN FALL OF 2015

Oct 29, 2014 at -

Two great experts on the history of the bible discuss some of the startlingly different ways in which the opening chapter of Genesis has been understood, as well as the sometimes contradictory uses to which its…



Jewish Studies Major Dinner

Oct 20, 2014 at

Come meet current Jewish Studies students and faculty. There will be a kosher food option provided.

Students should register for the event from the website: https…



Heine and the Post-Secular

Oct 16, 2014 at

A talk by Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto, Professor of German and Philosophy

Heine anticipates some of the crucial insights of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This talk will address some of…



The Magic of Craft: Workshops and the Materialization of Christianity in Late Antique Egypt

Oct 13, 2014 at

Prof. David Frankfurter, Boston University

Sponsored by the Religious Studies department, Classical Studies department, Ancient History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Ancient Studies…



Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Law with Professor Shahar Lifshitz: Lecture Two: "Civil Unions for All": A Remedy for the Predicament of Israeli Marriage Law

Sep 30, 2014 at

The 2014 Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law: The Struggle over Jewish Marriage and Divorce Law

Lecture II: “Civil Unions for All”: A Remedy for the Predicament of Israeli…



Sub Specie Hominis: The Emergence of Kant’s Critique in the Mirror of His Correspondence with Marcus Herz

Sep 29, 2014 at

Prof. Boris Gasparov, Columbia University

Sponsored by the Slavic Department, History Department, and Jewish Studies Program.