Past Events

Events



"A Tale of Two Audiences: Reading and Writing a Feminist Ethnography in Israel and in the US" with Pnina Motzafi-Haller

Jan 31, 2019 at

After briefly framing the setting of the social reality depicted in her ethnography, the author will offer selected readings from her book Concrete Boxes in order to illustrate the manner in which she had…



Alexander Colloquium: “Sister Scholars: Bais Yaakov and the Emergence of Orthodox Girls’ Culture in Interwar Poland” with Naomi Seidman and performance by Basya Schechter

Nov 27, 2018 at -

Lecture by Naomi Seidman with Musical Performance by Basya Schechter

Bais Yaakov, founded by a seamstress in 1917 in her sewing studio in Krakow, Poland, grew within a remarkably short time into an…



“’And Now I Have to Read in Jewish Something’: Yiddish Performance by Holocaust Survivors," with Jeffrey Shandler

Nov 8, 2018 at

In Commemoration of Kristallnacht

Professor Jeffrey Shandler, Chair and Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University



Screening and discussion of Shadows with Yigal Schwartz

Nov 1, 2018 at

Shadows

Noa Aharoni, 2017 | Israel | Hebrew and Hungarian w/ Hebrew & English subtitles | 52 min
Best Mid-Length Documentary Award, Israeli Documentary Forum, 2017…



"Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century" with Lior Steinfeld

Oct 29, 2018 at -

Lior Sternfeld, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State College of Liberal Arts.

His new book is Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Stanford…



"Jews, Muslims, and Modernity" Meyerhoff Lecture with Prof. Aron Rodrigue

Oct 18, 2018 at

Aron Rodrigue is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He teaches courses in Modern Jewish History, the history and culture of Sephardic Jews, the Jews of Modern…



Lehmann Workshop on the History of the Jewish Book

Jun 3, 2018 - Jun 4, 2018 at -

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, are…



Genizah Scribes at Work with Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Apr 25, 2018 at

THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESENTS

Genizah Scribes at Work

Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et…



24th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies: Science and Transformation in Jewish Culture

Apr 22, 2018 - Apr 23, 2018 at -

During this two-day colloquium, scholars from around the world will join our fellows to explore the ways that science and Judaism have long been mutual catalysts of change, exploration, and self-reflection. Panels…



"From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds" with Eric Kandel

Apr 17, 2018 at

Video of Dr. Eric Kandel on "From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds": click here

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