Past Events

Events



Zolotoy Plyos ~ Золотой плёс

Apr 3, 2014 at

Founded in 1994, the group has performed in Russia, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal and the US. All three members are graduates of the famous Saratov Conservatory in Russia, and are prizewinners…



Novelist, Tova Reich reads from One Hundred Philistine Foreskins - CANCELLED

Mar 25, 2014 at

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Kelly Writers House.

 

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.



"The Scientific Commitments of London’s Chief Rabbi at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century"

Mar 24, 2014 at -

Prof. Matt Goldish, Ohio State University; Katz CAJS Fellow, leads this week's History and Sociology of Science Seminar workshop.



The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Culture: A Colloquium in Honor of Professor Richard Cohen on his Retirement from the Hebrew University

Mar 23, 2014 at -

Coordinators: Penn Professors, Larry Silver and David Ruderman

 

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Warring Words: Rethinking Polemic in the Study of Jews and Judaism: JSP Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Mar 20, 2014 at -

There exists a strong scholarly consensus that polemic has played a central role in Jewish history. Whether we consider polemics involving Samaritans, Christians, Qaraites, Muslims, Haskalah thinkers, Zionists, “the…



45 Seconds from Forever: Stories of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

Feb 27, 2014 at -

Speaker: John L. Jackson, Jr. (Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Anthropology & Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania)



A Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty: Encounters with Islamic culture in Saʿadyah’s Tafsīr and a Responsum of Sherira Gaon

Feb 25, 2014 at -

Professor Bernard Septimus (Harvard University)

A Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty

Primary Source Readings in Hebrew, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic (with English translations)…



Graduate Humanities Forum Symposium: Violent Means

Feb 24, 2014 at -

Speakers:

 

Herman Bennett, CUNY

Ravit Reichman, Brown

Dorothy Roberts, Penn

Caleb Smith, Yale

 

We lack consensus on what it means to limit, control, reduce, or…



Cristobal Mendes, alias Abraham Franco Silveira: The Puzzling Saga of a Seventeenth-Century Converso

Feb 5, 2014 at

Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
 Seventeenth Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture

Speaker: Yosef Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Response by Roger Chartier, University of…



הילכו שנים יחדיו Traditional and Academic Approaches to Talmud Study

Jan 29, 2014 at -

Professor Robert Brody, Talmud Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL, will make a special presentation on Talmud to undergraduate students. Open to the public as well.