Past Events

In Commemoration of Kristallnacht

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program present

The Gesture of The Canonical: Walter Benjamin & Modern Scripture

by Professor Daniel Weidner, Humboldt…

The Jews are an ancient people with one of the longest recorded histories, yet scholars have long puzzled over their origins. When exactly did they appear? What were the precipitating factors that contributed to…