Past Events

Events



The Mitzvah Project: “A Mischling in the Wehrmacht”

Nov 9, 2015 at -

On Monday, November 9th, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Jewish Studies Program and the Germanic Literatures and Languages Department, welcome Roger Grunwald who will…



IN MEMORIAM: TERRENCE DES PRES: 40th anniversary of The Survivor

Nov 4, 2015 at -

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: symposium, with roundtable discussion

6::00 PM - 7:00 PM: reception / intermission

7:00 PM: readings and reminiscences 

RSVP: wh@writing…



Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Law: Liberal Multiculturalism as a Remedy for Religion—State Relations in Israel

Nov 3, 2015 at

Liberal Multiculturalism as a Remedy for Religion—State Relations in Israel

Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, Bar-Ilan University, Gruss Professor of Talmudic Civil Law at Penn Law

Sponsored by Penn Law School’s…



The Interplay of Substantive Doctrines, Institutions and Cultural Factors in the Regulation of Jewish Marriage: Legal and Historical Perspectives

Oct 29, 2015 at -

Scholars in the fields of family law, legal history, rabbinic law, and cultural history will consider cases in the regulation of Jewish marriage that illuminate the impact of institutional configurations, regional…



Josephus in Early Modern Spain: 1492 and the Death and Life of Jews

Oct 28, 2015 at

Julian Weiss, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish, King’s College London



Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine

Oct 15, 2015 at -

Lital Levy, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Princeton University; and Katz Center Fellow




What’s in a Nose? On the Origins, Dissemination, and Effects of Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature

Oct 7, 2015 at

Sara Lipton, Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

“What’s in a Nose?  On the Origins, Dissemination, and Effects of Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature”

In this paper I…



Myth and Magic: Storytelling in Hasidism

Sep 8, 2015 at

Professor Andreas Kilcher, Literature and Cultural Studies, ETH Zurich



Tales of Three Texts: The Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew Medical Texts in UPenn MS Codex 1649

Sep 3, 2015 at -

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies-Herbert D. Katz Center Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies and the David B. Ruderman Distinguished Fellowship Lecture

Tales of Three Texts: The Judaeo-Arabic…




Ibn Kammuna on philosophical Abrahamic monotheism: 
A Graduate Seminar


Sep 2, 2015 at -

Professor Tzvi Langermann, Department of Arabic, Bar Ilan University

Sa'd ibn Mansur 
(Izz Al-dawla) Ibn Kammuna was a 13th Century Jewish physician (ophthalmologist), philosopher and critic of Islam who lived…