October 2021
Emerging Scholars: Contemporary Yiddish Performance and Jewish Futures
Emerging Scholars Event Remote event on Zoom. Registration required on our Eventbrite site: https://contemporaryyiddish.eventbrite.com The Zoom link will be sent to registered guests a couple days prior to the lecture. Contemporary Yiddish Performance and Jewish Futures My work examines the music of Yiddish-speaking Jewish partisans and ghetto resisters, as sung for a modern audience by the Boston Worker’s Circle community chorus, A Besere Velt (‘A Better World’). For my master's thesis, I drew from a combination of original interviews…
Find out more »Emerging Scholars: A Curious Daughter
Emerging Scholars: Lea Greenberg Remote via Zoom. Please check back in early October for details on how to register and receive the Zoom link. A Curious Daughter: The Excess of Reading and Desire in Karl Emil Franzos’s “The Shylock of Barnow” (1877) From Yiddish theater of the late 18th century to Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories to Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox, Jewish daughters leaving the fold are often at the center of Jewish literature negotiating the tensions between religious tradition and modernity.…
Find out more »Remote Lecture: Anna Elena Torres
Lecture with Anna Elena Torres, University of Chicago. Event description will be posted soon. Remote Lecture: Oct 28, 5:30pm
Find out more »November 2021
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture: Beth Berkowitz
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture Beth Berkowitz, Barnard College. Event details will be posted in late August.
Find out more »Emerging Scholars: Tine Rassalle
Emerging Scholars: Tine Rassalle, PhD candidate in department of religious studies. Online Zoom event. Free and open to the public, registration required. Event details will be posted soon.
Find out more »January 2022
Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Event:
Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Event Patricia Heberer-Rice, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Event details will be posted in fall.
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