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October 2020
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…
Find out more »February 2021
Paul J. Schrag Lecture: James Q Whitman (Yale)
The UW-Madison Department of History & the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Present: The 2021 Paul J. Schrag Lecture "The American Influence on Nazi Race Law: Assessing U.S. Responsibility" James Q. Whitman (Yale) Nazism triumphed…
Find out more »Mayrent Sound Salon with Eléonore Biezunski
Join us for a Sound Salon with Eléonore Biezunski! Come hear musician and sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski perform Yiddish songs and klezmer instrumentals from the archival collections of Ruth Rubin, Moshe Beregovski and Zusman Kiselgof.…
Find out more »March 2021
Book Launch with Adam Stern
Join us for a virtual book launch for Prof. Adam Stern's new book Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. TUESDAY, MARCH 9 12:00 noon (CST) To be held online, via Zoom. Please register in advance by clicking here.…
Find out more »Reading “Shpinoza”: A Heretic in Yiddish and Hebrew
Reading Shpinoza: A Heretic in Yiddish and Hebrew An International Symposium (Online) The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison March 18, 2021 The George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at…
Find out more »April 2021
Guest Lecture: Alexandra Minna Stern (Univ. of Michigan)
Tracing the History of a Toxic Present: Resurgent Antisemitism and White Nationalism in the U.S. Prof. Alexandra Minna Stern April 6, 2021 at 4:oopm CT/5:00pm ET To be held virtually, via Zoom. Please register in…
Find out more »Book Talk with Dr. Bernice Lerner
Weaving Disparate Narratives: Behind the Scenes of Bergen-Belsen's Liberation Thursday, April 29 7:00 pm (CDT) To be held online, via Zoom. Please register in advance through the following link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pf--vqDksE9PhZbzJUJsdmQgIgc6Lx4qe All the Horrors of War follows…
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