Save the Date: October 28, 5:30pm Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Decentering the 1948 Palestine War: From the Local to the Global with Derek Penslar, Harvard University This talk links the Palestine Question with the … Read more
Class Visit / open to the public; remote talk on Zoom. Elizabeth Graver (Boston College) will join us on Zoom to discuss her new novel Kantika: A dazzling Sephardic multi-generational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana & New … Read more
Save the Date: February 13, 2025, 5:30p Annual Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience A Pogrom in Chicago: Antisemitism and Free Speech in Modern America with James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University Can we stop antisemitic hate speech … Read more
Save the Date: March 3, 2025, 6:00p Annual Sephardic Lecture "Beautiful Friendships": Jewish Refugee Writers in Mexico with Tabea Linhard, Washington University in St Louis “Beautiful Friendships”: Jewish Refugee Writers in MexicoAt first glance, Ruth Rewald (1906-1943) and Egon Erwin … Read more
Save the Date: March 24, 2025, 5:30pm Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lecture in Jewish Studies Annual Holocaust Studies Lecture The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt with Anna Hájková, University of Warwick (UK) Terezín, as … Read more
