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April 2020
CANCELLED Guest Lecture: Ron Schwarz, UW Alum and son of a Holocaust survivor
EVENT CANCELLED Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this event has been cancelled. It may be rescheduled for Fall 2020, but it is uncertain at this time. Ron Schwarz is the son of Holocaust Survivor Charles…
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July 2020
POSTPONED – Greenfield Summer Institute
This year's program has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will not take place as scheduled this July. This program has been rescheduled for next summer: July 19-22, 2021. For more information, visit…
Find out more »October 2020
Tobias Lectures: Moshe Halbertal (NYU & Hebrew Univ.)
Moshe Halbertal Bio: Moshe Halbertal is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University and the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School, and a member of the Israel’s…
Find out more »Tobias Lectures: Moshe Halbertal (NYU & Hebrew Univ.)
Moshe Halbertal Bio: Moshe Halbertal is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University and the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School, and a member of the Israel’s…
Find out more »Reading and Q&A with Francine Hirsch
Professor Francine Hirsch presents her newest book, “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II.” About the book: Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two…
Find out more »Guest Lecture: Asa S. Mittman (Professor of Art History, California State University at Chico)
Far from Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps A public lecture with ASA S. MITTMAN, Professor of Art History at California State University at Chico October 15, 2020 5:00-6:30pm To be held…
Find out more »Public Symposium: “If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends: Jews Making Trouble, Jews Making Comedy”
Together with UCLA, CJS will co-sponsor the virtual symposium “If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends: Jews Making Trouble, Jews Making Comedy.” Tony Michels will moderate the discussion. This event will be held virtually, via Zoom.…
Find out more »Public Lecture: Dr. Pnina Arad (BEN-GUIRON UNIVERSITY)
The Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on “Jerusalem in the Medieval and Modern Imagination” Presents: “Twelfth-century Maps of the Holy Land: Image, Context, Function” A Public Lecture by PNINA ARAD (Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Thursday, October 29 @…
Find out more »November 2020
Guest Lecture: Anna Schultz (Univ. of Chicago)
Bene Israel Kirtan as Sonic Translation, 1880-1955 Benjamin Shimshon Ashtamkar, the first Bene Israel kirtankar The first Jewish kirtan organization was founded in Bombay in 1880, and for the next forty years, kirtan arguably became…
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