Past Events

Events



Alexander Colloquium: Dr. Magda Teter

"Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism"
Dr. Magda Teter
Oct 3, 2023 at -

In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried…



"The Antisemite as Intellectual and Storyteller"

Dr. Saskia Fischer
Sep 19, 2023 at -

Saskia Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will discuss the figure of the anti-Semite in contemporary German literature. She will focus on a novel by the German-Jewish author…



The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law Among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe

Apr 24, 2023 at -

The sixteenth century testifies to the manifold ways in which European scholars manifested an ever-growing fascination with Hebrew literature in all its forms. It was in the seventeenth century, however, that this…



Jewish Involvement in the American Revolution

Arthur Kiron
Apr 18, 2023 at -

Learn from Dr. Arthur Kiron's presentation of materials from the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica.

Food will be provided!

This is a Jewish Studies Program Meltzer Intern…



Dr. Claire Schwartz in conversation with Dr. Samantha Pious

JSP Meltzer Internship event
Apr 17, 2023 at -

Claire Schwartz is the author of the poetry collection Civil Service (Graywolf Press, 2022).  Her writing has the appeared in The Believer, Grant, The Nation, The New Yorker…



"Battling Foodways and Halakhic Folkways: The Case of Peanut Oil on Passover" 

This is a Meltzer Intern event organized by Penn undergraduate and Jewish Studies Program Meltzer Intern, Yitzy Tanner, C'23.
Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff
Mar 28, 2023 at -

 



Infidelities: Armenian Studies Otherwise

An International Conference 
Mar 24, 2023 - Mar 26, 2023 at -



Jews of Iran

A Photographic Chronicle
Lior Sternfeld
Mar 22, 2023 at -

Jews of Iran



Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: An eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944)

A book celebration: Andrew Cassel in conversation with Beth S. Wenger
Mar 14, 2023 at -

The Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are proud to invite you to an extraordinary book celebration.

Author and…



The Jewish Recipes Within a 13th Century Andalusian Cookbook in Arabic

27th Annual Silvers Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Feb 28, 2023 at -

The 27th annual Silvers Visiting Scholar lecture in the Jewish Studies Program at Penn will be given by Hélène Jawhara Piñer from the University of Tours, with the enthusiastic support from a variety of programs and…