Final Verdict: The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century – Tobias Buck
On 17 October 2019, in Hamburg’s imposing criminal justice building, a trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Bruno Dey stands accused of being involved in a crime committed over seven decades ago: the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp in present-day Poland. Only seventeen at the […]
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust – Robin Judd
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jews and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they […]
Landscapes of Print: Jews, Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic in Colonial North Africa – Noam Sienna
Arabness and Jewishness are sometimes understood to be identities at odds, or even mutually exclusive, but there are many contexts in which they have overlapped. This talk explores one such time and place: the attempt in nineteenth-century North Africa to create a modern “Arab Jewish” or “Judeo-Arabic” reading public. Dr. Sienna will investigate the development […]
Crossroads of Cultures: The Jezreel Valley in the Bronze and Iron Ages – Karen Covello-Paran
The Jezreel Valley is Israel’s largest and most fertile valley. Strategically located in Northern Israel, this region played a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and economic developments of major political entities during the second and first millennia BCE. In this lecture, we will explore Canaanite urban culture, Egyptian imperial rule, and the Kingdom of […]
‘Mobile internet is worse than the internet; it can destroy our community’ Old Order Amish and Ultra-Orthodox women’s responses to cellphone and smartphone use
This research explores exposure patterns and perceptions of cellphone and smartphone use among Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish women, while examining symbolic meanings these non-users might attribute to these devices. Triangulation of participant observations, interviews, and a survey, serve to demonstrate that although these populations differ in their cellphone use (the Amish mostly don’t use them […]