The final Jewish Studies Seminar of 2012-2013 will meet Tuesday April 30.
Our guests will be Louise Hecht, Palacky University, Olmutz, and Dieter Hecht of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz.
They will lead a discussion on ”The Haskalah in Bohemia and Moravia: a gendered perspective,” and “Everybody’s Darling: Nobody’s Concern: Jewish Salonières in Vienna around 1800,” respectively.
papers available JSS – Hecht JSS – HechtPrelims3 JSS – DHecht text
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, April 7, 2013.
Our guest speaker is Gail Sherman, Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College. She will lead a discussion on “Paradox, Not Orthodox, Jews: The Jewish-American Fiction of Joanne Greenberg.”
paper available JSS – Sherman
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, February 24, 2013.
Our guest speaker is Marsha Rozenblit, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History at the University of Maryland. She will lead a discussion on “Jews and Other Germans: The Case of Moravia, 1848-1938.”
paper available JSS – Rozenblit
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies seminar is scheduled for Friday, February 15. This is a joint session with the Triangle Legal History Seminar.
Our guest speaker is Dr. Verena Kasper-Marienberg and she will present her paper “Jewish Cases at an Early Modern Supreme Court: A Source for Legal and Gender History.”
Dr. Kasper-Marienberg received her Ph.D. from the University of Graz and will be a Fellow at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies next year.
paper available JSS – Kasper-Marienberg
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is January 27.
Our guest will be Dr. Zohar Maor of the Department of History, Bar-Ilan University. He will lead a discussion on “Max Brod: Identity and Hybridity.”
paper available JSS – max brod final
Our guest will be Rabbi Professor David Ellenson, President and I. H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.
He will lead a discussion on “National Sovereignty, Jewish Identity and the ‘Sake of Heaven’: The Impact of Residence in Israel on Halakhic Rulings on Conversion”
paper available JSS – Ellenson
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is December 2. Our presenter will be Professor Rachel Elior of the Hebrew University of Jersalem. She will lead a discussion on “The Origins of Hasidisim.”
paper available JSS – Elior
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar will be Sunday, November 11.
Our guest will be Prof. Shaul Magid, Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He will lead a discussion on “Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Spector of Hasidisim.”
paper available JSS – Magid
2012-2013 Schedule
November 11, Shaul Magid, Indiana University, ”Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Spector of Hasidism”
November 18, Exile & Interpretation conference, Wake Forest University (see a separate message)
December 2, Rachel Elior, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Origins of Hasidism”
December 9, Rabbi Professor David Ellenson, President and I.H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College, “National Sovereignty, Jewish Identity and the ‘Sake of Heaven’: The Impact of Residence in Israel on Halakhic Rulings on Conversion”
January 27, Zohar Maor, Bar-Ilan University, Max Brod
February 10, Tamar Merlin, Tel-Aviv University, ”The Secret Which Makes a Hero of the Weak”: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Prose Fiction
April 7, Gail Sherman, Reed College, topic (in American Jewish literature) TBA
April 28, Louise Hecht, Palacký University, Olmütz, Jewish schools and on Jewish history in the Prague Haskalah
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, Oct. 28.
Our guest is Professor Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland. She will present “Jews and Other Germans: The Case of Moravia, 1848-1938.”
paper available JSS – Rozenblit
2012-2013 Schedule
October 28, Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland, Jews and Other Germans: The Case of Moravia, 1848-1938
November 11, Shaul Magid, Indiana University, Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Spector of Hasidism
November 18, Exile & Interpretation conference, Wake Forest University (see a separate message)
December 2, Rachel Elior, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, topic TBA
December 9, Rabbi Professor David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College, “National Sovereignty, Jewish Identity and the ‘Sake of Heaven’: The Impact of Residence in Israel on Halakhic Rulings on Conversion”
January 27, Zohar Maor, Bar-Ilan University, Max Brod
February 10, Tamar Merlin, Tel-Aviv University, ”The Secret Which Makes a Hero of the Weak”: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Prose Fiction
April 7, Gail Sherman, Reed College, topic (in American Jewish literature) TBA
April 28, Louise Hecht, Palacký University, Olmütz, Jewish schools and on Jewish history in the Prague Haskalah
Come celebrate the end of a great year with us. Our guests will be Mirjam and Noam Zadoff from the University of Munich. They will lead a discussion on: “Jewish-German Dialogues: Gershom and Werner Scholem.”
Please RSVP to Amy at amy.vargas@duke.edu
papers available:
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