The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar will be Sunday, Feb. 28. Professor Ruth von Bernuth will present the topic: “Early Modern Bible Translations in Yiddish.”
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Feb. 7 with Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. The topic of discussion is: “Beyond Judaisms: Metatron and the Divine Polymorphy of Ancient Judaism.”
papers available: JSS-Boyarin JSS-Boyarin.biblio
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar will be Sunday Jan. 24 with Prof. Boaz Huss of Ben-Gurion University, Isreal. Professor Huss will discuss ”The Kabbalah and the Politics of In-authenticity”
paper available: JSS-Huss.doc
The next seminar will be Dec. 1 with John Efron, Koret Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday, December 1 at 5PM. Prof. Efron will lead a discussion “Sephardic Beauty in the Eye of the Ashkenazic Beholder.”
paper available JSS-Efron
Upcoming meeting: November 22, 2009 with Steven Aschheim, Professor of History and the Vigevani Chair in European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will present “Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Bi-Nationalism and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism.”
paper available JSS-Aschheim
Next meeting: November 15, 2009 with Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary College – University of London, “ecclesia and synagoga: Visual Dynamics and Historical Change”
powerpoint available
November 11, 2009 with Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Professor (Directrice d’études) at École des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, “Questions of Times: Conflicting Time Scales in Historical Perspective”
paper available JSS-Goldberg
October 27, 2009 with Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, “Intrigued with Islam: Jewish Scholars, Travelers, and Converts in Modern Europe”
paper available JSS-Heschel
Next meeting: October 4, 2009 with Prof. Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa, “Living in Two Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ (shetach) in Israeli Culture”
Morris-Reich: Living in Two Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ in Israeli Culture
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