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SUMMARY:Antisemitism\, an American Tradition - Pamela Nadell
DESCRIPTION: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 it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries. \nIndeed\, Jews have met antisemitism since first landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little\, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office\, admission to schools\, and employment in industry\, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently\, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville\, Virgina\, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year. \nProfessor Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University. Her book America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s Everett Family Foundation “Book of the Year” and was translated into Hebrew. Her new book Antisemitism\, an American Tradition\, was published by W.W. Norton in October. A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies\, she consults to the museum planned for the rebuild of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life and has testified before Congress three times. \nModerated by Dov Waxman (UCLA) \nRSVP
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SUMMARY:Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism: Before and After Babel - Steven D. Fraade
DESCRIPTION: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 other texts within their broader synchronic – Greco-Roman context\, as well as diachronic context – the history of Judaism and beyond. Neither systematic nor comprehensive\, his selection of Hebrew\, Aramaic\, and Greek primary sources\, here fluently translated into clear English\, best illustrate the fundamental issues and the performative aspects relating to translation and multilingualism. Fraade scrutinizes and analyzes the texts to reveal the inner dynamics and the pedagogical-social implications that are implicit when multilingualism and translation are paired. His book demonstrates the need for a more thorough and integrated treatment of these topics\, and their relevance to the study of ancient Judaism\, than has been heretofore recognized. \nTuesday\, February 10\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nMultilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism: Before and After Babel\nSteven D. Fraade (Yale University)\nModerator: William Schniedewind (UCLA) \nBible and the Ancient World series \nCosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/multilingualism-and-translation-in-ancient-judaism-before-and-after-babel-steven-d-fraade/
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CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Vanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City - Frances Tanzer
DESCRIPTION: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 1938 German Anschluss through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period: a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that has relied on antisemitism\, philosemitism\, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. As she shows\, antisemitism and philosemitism were not contradictory forces in post-Nazi Austrian culture. They were deeply interconnected aspirations in a city where nostalgia for the past dominated cultural reconstruction efforts and supported seemingly contradictory impulses. Philosemitism was much more than a simple inversion of antisemitism—instead\, Tanzer argues\, philosemitism defined Vienna in the era of postwar reconstruction. Vanishing Vienna uncovers a rarely discussed phenomenon of the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust—a society that consumes\, redefines\, and bestows symbolic meaning on the victims in their absence. \nFrances Tanzer is the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Culture at Clark University in Massachusetts and associate professor of history. Her book Vanishing Vienna: Philosemitism\, Modernism\, and Jews in a Postwar City was published with University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024. She has received support for her research from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the Remarque Institute at NYU\, and others. Her new project is entitled: Klezmer Dynasty: An Intimate History of Modern Jewish Culture\, 1880-2019. \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nVanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City \nFrances Tanzer (Clark University)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies\nProgram made possible by The 1939 Society\, a division of Holocaust Museum Los Angeles \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/francestanzer/
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SUMMARY:Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule - Paris Papamichos Chronakis
DESCRIPTION: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 Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative\, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen\, community members\, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking. \nParis Papamichos Chronakis is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway University of London. His work explores the entangled histories and divided memories of Jews and Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to Salonica in World War One\, Greek interwar Zionism and anti-Zionism\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. His first book\, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024 winning that year’s National Jewish Book Awards – JDC-Herbert Katzki Award (Writing Based on Archival Material). \nTuesday\, February 24\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nSeeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule \nParis Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway\, University of London)\nModerated by Aomar Boum (UCLA) \nMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/seeing-like-a-merchant-jews-and-greeks-from-ottoman-to-greek-rule-paris-papamichos-chronakis/
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