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…
The Efflorescence of Ketubah Illustration in Iran and Afghanistan as Mirror to Jewish-Muslim Socio-Cultural Relationships
Shalom Sabar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sep 20, 2022
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The joyous practice of Jewish communities decorating the marriage contract (ketubah) expresses the happiness and festivity of the marriage ceremony. This artistic tradition emerged among the Jews of Egypt and Eretz…
Abraham Gutman is an opinion and editorial writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Born in Israel but now based in Philadelphia, Gutman has written extensively on Israel/Palestine, race…
