Feb. 19, 2015: Carol Bakhos (UCLA) – Interpreting the Family of Abraham: Political Uses and Abuses
Feb. 24, 2015: Oren Kosansky (Lewis and Clark College) – When Jews Speak Arabic: Jewish Languages in Colonial Morocco
Feb. 25, 2015: Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Folksongs of Modernity: A Judeo-Spanish Perspective
Mar. 2, 2015: Benjamin Sommer (JTS) – Deuteronomy as Scripture and Deuteronomy as Tradition
Mar. 8-9, 2015: Jason Lustig (UCLA), Anat Mooreville (UCLA), Taly Ravid (UCLA) – Thinking Beyond the Canon: New Themes and Approaches in Jewish Studies
Mar. 12, 2015: Wendy Lower (Claremont) – Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Apr. 21, 2015: Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt) and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) – Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700–1950
Apr. 23, 2015: Philip Schultz (DePaul University) – The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
Apr. 30, 2015: Emily J. Levine (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) – Capital, Culture, and the City: German Jews and the Other Weimar Republic
May 3-4, 2015: Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA), Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth), Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary) – Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: A Conference in Honor of Abraham Joshua Heschel
May 7, 2015: Mark Kligman (UCLA) – Music and Identity: The Musical Lives of Shlomo Carlebach and Mickey Katz
May 12, 2015: Judith Thissen (Utrecht University) – Kol Nidre on Broadway: New Perspectives on the Success of the Jazz Singer
May 19, 2015: David N. Myers (UCLA) – The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History