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Chair: David Stern

Highlights diverse approaches to the study of Jewish cultures and societies throughout the entire span of Jewish history, bringing together for discussion scholars and scholarship from a wide variety of disciplines and across...

Yiddish on the Frontlines: Modernism in the 1930’s

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Justin Cammy, Professor of Jewish Studies and of Comparative Literature , Smith College and Visiting Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

CANCELED What is Sacred about Emotions? A Historical Exploration of Emotion in Hasidism

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES This event has been canceled. SPEAKER: Leore Sachs Shmueli, Bar Ilan University Dr. Leore Sachs Shmueli is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. Her expertise lies in the fields of...

Philip Roth: Stung By Life

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University Steven J. Zipperstein discusses novelist Philip Roth: his books, their language and writing, the genius and process that produced them, the circumstances under which they...

Transmitting Indigenous, Vulnerable, and Endangered Languages Symposium

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKERS: Américo Mendoza-Mori, Northeastern University; Chaya Nove, Brown University; Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell, Rhodes Scholar Américo Mendoza-Mori is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in literary, linguistic and...

"The Last Twins" Holocaust Documentary Film & Discussion

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKERS: Judith Richter, Filmmaker, and Romy Neumark, CJS Fellow THE LAST TWINS documentary film celebrates an unsung hero of the Holocaust, Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, who risked everything to save dozens of young twins in...

A Jewish Look at World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, 1375)

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES​​​​​​​ SPEAKER: KATRIN KOGMAN-APPEL, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Institut für Jüdische Studien How to join the event: Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register...

Jewish Printers and Christian Artists in Naples and Istanbul: An Illustrated Haggadah for Sefardi Refugees (1492–1505)

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Katrin Kogman-Appel, University of Munster, GERMANY Professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. Previously taught at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1996–2015). Research and published...

Beyond the Headlines: Rethinking Language, Gender, and Inclusivity in Israeli Journalism

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Romy Neumark, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer and Fellow at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies

Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES Moderator: David Stern, Harvard University This will be a symposium about Medieval Jewish Badges with a number of speakers. Prof David Stern will be moderating. Harvard Profs Hamberger and Greenblatt will be respondents. Co...

Words Without Borders: Etgar Keret, Leading Israeli Writer in conversation with Romy Neumark, Israeli Journalist and CJS Fellow at Harvard

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Etgar Keret, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University Etgar Keret is an award winning Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Keret’s...

From the Four Corners of the World: Judeo-Arabic Journalism in 19th-20th Century North Africa

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Visiting Professor at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies Ofra Tirosh-Becker is Professor of Hebrew language and a Professor, and past chair, of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature...