The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures invites you to the first in a series of events on "Inglorious Comparisons: On the Uses and Abuses of Historical Analogy".
Prof. Benjamin Braude, History, Boston College, and Research Associate, Department of Religion, Smith College, has been a visiting professor/research fellow at Harvard,…
With the election of Donald Trump, many argue that a U.S.-brokered two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is now a practical impossibility. With old paradigms crumbling and no consensus on where to go…
With the election of Donald Trump, many argue that a U.S.-brokered two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is now a practical impossibility. With old paradigms crumbling and no consensus on where to go…
Yuval Jobani, assistant professor at Tel Aviv University and fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies will be speaking about feminism, religious pluralism, democracy, and the public sphere.…
Join us for an exploration of a multilingual, multicultural and multicentric archive! Part time-machine, part-archive, the Cairo Genizah is a collection of the written output of Jewish communities from the…
Rabbi David Flatto, Ph.D., is Professor of Law and Jewish Studies at Penn State University and Associate Professor of Law and Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Flatto holds…
Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the largest transnational Jewish community of modern times - the Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe. Much of the musical and choreographic…
This talk will explore the contribution of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a postwar American Jewish public intellectual and historian, to the broad field of Holocaust historiography. Witness to the vital Jewish world of…
