Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies

October 28, Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis University Library

6:30 pm  Keynote Address: Mirta Kupferminc, JOTA Artist-Scholar Fellowship Artistic Director

7:45 pm Music and Dessert reception with Jasmine Garfunkel: Yiddish y Sepharadi Music

We are delighted to invite you to our keynote event of the inaugural Jews of the Americas Artist-Scholar Fellowship “The Spine/La Médula.” Beginning with Jorge Luis Borges and his engagement with the “People of the Book,” the talk will engage Kabbalistic concepts and explore themes of diaspora, alphabets, and the power of the word in creating contained universes. Additionally, the lecture will be an indication of that which can be created from a profound collaboration between artists and scholars.

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