Jewish Cultures and Societies

JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES 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 Kabbalah and Hasidism, with a...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Joshua Teplitsky, UPenn Joshua Teplitsky is the Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History. He studies the history of Jewish life in early modern Central Europe, with an eye both to the...

JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Eve Sicular, Yiddish Band Leader, Composer, Arranger and Film Scholar