Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora – David Kraemer
Jewish people have always wandered. From the time of the Babylonian Exile in the early 6th century BCE, diaspora became the Jews' normal condition, and though they may have hoped...
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Unpacking my Father’s Book Store – Laurence Roth
During its nearly thirty years in business, J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community and one of the premier...
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EVENT CANCELLED – And God Laughed: Humor in the Bible – Joel Kaminsky
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Prelude to the Holocaust: The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of Summer 1941 – Jeffrey Kopstein
This lecture examines a particularly brutal wave a violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union....
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After the Catastrophe: Ezra-Nehemiah and the Rebuilding of Community and Identity – Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
The deaths and deportations that accompanied the destruction of the Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587 BCE mark the turning point in the arc of biblical narrative. The book of...
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Antisemitism, an American Tradition – Pamela Nadell
In Antisemitism, an American Tradition Pamela S. Nadell, the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender history at American University, recounts the powerful story of antisemitism in America and how...
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Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism: Before and After Babel – Steven D. Fraade
In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and...
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Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City – Frances Tanzer
Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the...
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Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule – Paris Papamichos Chronakis
How did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the...
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New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre – Olga Gershenson
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell...