Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies

October 28, Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis University Library

7:00 pm  Keynote Address: Mirta Kupferminc, JOTA Artist-Scholar Fellowship Artistic Director

8:15 pm Music and Dessert reception with Jasmine Garfunkel: Yiddish y Sepharadi Music

Mirta Kupferminc’s Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to The Word, has garnered international accolades, including receptions at the Library of Congress and Argentina’s Biblioteca Nacional.

We are delighted to invite you to our keynote event of the inaugural Jews of the Americas Artist-Scholar Fellowship “The Spine/La Médula.” Kupferminc’s public lecture will be a tribute to bibliophiles, focusing on Jorge Luis Borges and his engagement with the people of the book alongside themes of diaspora, alphabets, and the power of the word in creating contained universes. Moreover, it will be an indication of that which can be created from profound collaboration between artists and scholars.

A dessert reception to follow will feature Yiddish and Ladino music by JOTA Fellow Jasmine Garfunkel.