Duke-UNC Jewish Studies Seminar http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss A collaborative project of the Centers for Jewish Studies and Duke and UNC. Supported by the Carolina Seminars. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:43:04 +0000 en hourly 1 Next Seminar May 3 with Mirjam and Noam Zadoff http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-may-3-with-mirjam-and-noam-zadoff/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-may-3-with-mirjam-and-noam-zadoff/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:52:46 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=366 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

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-may-3-with-mirjam-and-noam-zadoff/feed/ 0 Next seminar April 29 with Charlotte E. Fonrobert http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-april-29-with-charlotte-e-fonrobert/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-april-29-with-charlotte-e-fonrobert/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:01:31 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=359 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

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-april-29-with-charlotte-e-fonrobert/feed/ 0 Next Seminar March 18 with Prof. Christine Hayes http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-march-25-with-prof-christine-hayes/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-march-25-with-prof-christine-hayes/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:49:57 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=352 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

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-march-25-with-prof-christine-hayes/feed/ 0 Next seminar Feb. 26 with Prof. Jonathan Elukin http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-feb-26-with-prof-jonathan-elukin/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-feb-26-with-prof-jonathan-elukin/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:26:18 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=338 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

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-feb-26-with-prof-jonathan-elukin/feed/ 0 February 7 seminar with Professor Sidra Ezrahi http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/february-7-seminar-with-professor-sidra-ezrahi/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/february-7-seminar-with-professor-sidra-ezrahi/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:35:01 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=332 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

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/february-7-seminar-with-professor-sidra-ezrahi/feed/ 0 November 13 Seminar with Julie Mell http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-nov-13-with-julie-mell/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-nov-13-with-julie-mell/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:41:34 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=320 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

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/next-seminar-nov-13-with-julie-mell/feed/ 0 September 11 seminar with Prof. Kenneth B. Moss http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/september-11-seminar-with-prof-kenneth-b-moss/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/september-11-seminar-with-prof-kenneth-b-moss/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:24:56 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=311 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 Extrusion, and the National Horizon of Polish Jews 1918-1939.”

paper available  JSS – Moss

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/september-11-seminar-with-prof-kenneth-b-moss/feed/ 0 2011 – 2012 Jewish Studies Seminar Schedule http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/2011-2012-jewish-studies-seminar-schedule/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/2011-2012-jewish-studies-seminar-schedule/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:37:27 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=306 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: Memories and Perceptions” – Cancelled

Feb. 7 – Sidra Ezrahi (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) “Europe, Israel and America in the Twentieth Century: The Global Theatre of Jewish Tragedy, Epic and Comedy”

Feb. 26 – Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College) “Is Shylock Really Jewish? The Devil, Theology and the Meaning of the Merchant of Venice”

March 18 – Christine Hayes (Yale) “Ancient Rabbinic Trolley Problems: The Individual, The Collectivity and the Contraints of Christian Discourse”

April 29 – Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford) “Rabbinic Urban Topography: The Eruv and other Neighborhood Maps”

May 4 – Mirjam and Noam Zadoff (Munich) “German-Jewish Dialogues: Gershom and Wener Scholem”

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/2011-2012-jewish-studies-seminar-schedule/feed/ 0 Seminar Sept. 11 with Prof. Kenneth B. Moss http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/seminar-sept-11-with-prof-kenneth-b-moss/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/seminar-sept-11-with-prof-kenneth-b-moss/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:29:27 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=300 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 Extrusion, and the National Horizon of Polish Jews 1918-1939.”

paper available shortly

]]> http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/seminar-sept-11-with-prof-kenneth-b-moss/feed/ 0 Seminar Monday April 11, 2011 with Prof. Dan Diner http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/seminar-monday-april-11-2011-with-prof-dan-diner/ http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/seminar-monday-april-11-2011-with-prof-dan-diner/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:19:12 +0000 payne http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/?p=292 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  JSS – DDiner WW2

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