Past Events

Events




Israeli Author Esty G. Hayim: "I Have No Mother Tongue, Just a Language I Adopted as a Home"

Apr 8, 2014 at -

Esty G. Hayim, the Israeli author, dancer and actress came of age in the city of Haifa. A daughter of Holocaust survivors, many of her works revolve around Holocaust memories using her seaside home town as backdrop.…



Jewish Studies Program Open House

Apr 8, 2014 at -

Come to a Jewish Studies Program Open House!!!



Jewish Studies Program at College Palooza

Apr 7, 2014 at -

 

Stop by the Jewish Studies Program booth on College Green for information on JWST courses, majoring and and minoring. (In case of inclement weather, we will relocate to the Bistro in Houston Hall.)



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)

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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)…