By payne | April 26, 2012
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: JSS – Zadoffs abstract JSS – Mirjam Zadoff-2 JSS – Noam Zadoff
By payne | April 13, 2012
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, April 29. Our guest is Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University. She will present “Rabbinic Urban Topography: The Eruv and other Neighborhood Maps.” paper available JSS – Fonrobert
By payne | March 13, 2012
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, March 18. Our guest will be Professor Christine Hayes of Yale University. She will lead a discussion of her essay “Legal Realism and Sectarian Self-Fashioning in Jewish Antiquity.” paper available JSS-Hayes
By payne | February 14, 2012
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Feb. 26. Our guest will be Prof. Jonathan Elukin of Trinity College. He will lead a discussion of his paper “Is Shylock really Jewish? The Devil, Theology and the Meaning of the Merchant of Venice.” This seminar is co-sponsored by Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar. Paper available JSS – Elukin
By payne | January 30, 2012
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Tuesday, February 7. Our guest will be Professor Sidra Ezrahi of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will lead a discussion on “Europe, Israel and America in the Twentieth Century: The Global Theatre of Jewish Tragedy, Epic and Comedy.” paper available JSS – Ezrahi
By payne | November 2, 2011
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar will be Sunday, November 13. This will be a joint session with the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar. Our presenter will be Julie Mell (NCSU). She will lead a discussion of “The Jewish Serfdom that Never Was: Jews and the origins of English representative government.” paper available JSS-Mell
By payne | September 1, 2011
The Jewish Studies Seminar will meet on September 11 at 3PM. Our guest will be Professor Kenneth B. Moss, Felix Posen Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of History and Chair, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. He will lead a discussion of ”Unchosen Peoplehood: Spoiled Identity, Political [...]
By payne | August 24, 2011
Sept. 11 – Kenneth Moss (Johns Hopkins Univ.) “Unchosen Peoplehood: Spoiled Identity, Political Extrusion, and the National Horizon of Polish Jews, 1918-1939″ Nov. 13 – Julie Mell (NCSU) “The Jewish Serfdom That Never Was: Jews and the Origins of English Representative Government” Dec. 4 – Omar Kamil (Dubnov Institute, Leipzig) “Arab Approaches to Jewish History: [...]
By payne | August 8, 2011
The Jewish Studies Seminar will meet on September 11 at 3PM. Our guest will be Professor Kenneth B. Moss, Felix Posen Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of History and Chair, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. He will lead a discussion of ”Unchosen Peoplehood: Spoiled Identity, Political [...]
The Jewish Studies Seminar will meet on Monday, April 11 at 5PM. Our guest will be Professor Dan Diner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig. He will lead a discussion of ”World War Two Reframed: History’s Memory in an Era of Globalization.” paper available [...]
