2021 Events
December 19, 2021
This program was presented by Jewish Heritage Alliance in partnership with the National Museum of American Jewish History, ANU Museum of the Jewish People, the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, The American Sephardi Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience, Fundación HispanoJudía, EJCC European Jewish Community Center, University of Miami (Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies), Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Kulanu.
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish and Gender Studies
December 15, 2021
The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series
Carole S. Kessner, PhD, Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self (HBI Series on Jewish Women and National Jewish Book Award for Biography) in conversation with Peter Osnos
Co-Sponsor: The Brandeis Alumni Association
December 9, 2021
Yuval Evri, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in conversation with Neta Elkayam, an Israeli singer and visual artist whose work plumbs the culture of the Moroccan Jews from which she descended.
Studio Israel is an online conversation series that looks at Israeli culture and diversity through the lens of contemporary Israeli artists and creatives. Chaired by Caron Tabb. Studio Israel is a partnership among Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Jewish Arts Collaborative, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and the Vilna Shul, and is made possible by generous support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies. This event is also cosponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England.
December 8, 2021
The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series
Rabbi Haviva Ner-David, Hope Valley
HBI is a network member of the Jewish Book Council.
December 2, 2021
Sarah Hurwitz in conversation with Rav Tiferet Berenbaum as they grapple with current issues and turn to Judaism for guidance.
November 22, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University
HBI Scholar in Residence
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish and Gender Studies
November 7-21, 2021
Leaving Paradise, Dir. Ofer Freiman, Documentary, 2021, Brazil/Israel, 86 min.
Co-sponsors: BJFF, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies
November 17, 2021
Cosponsored by: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute; Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies; Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Schusterman Center for Israel Studies; and Women's Studies Research Center, at Brandeis University.
November 15, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Adam Ferziger, Bar-Ilan University
HBI Scholar in Residence
November 8, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Marla Brettschneider, University of New Hampshire
HBI Scholar in Residence & HBI Research Associate
November 4, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish and Gender Studies
Co-Sponsors: Brandeis Anthropology Department, Brandeis Creative Writing Program, Brandeis Hispanic Studies Program, Brandeis Gender & Sexuality Center, Brandeis Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Wellesley College Spanish Dept., J-Lats Princeton, Facing History and Ourselves, Museo Judío de Chile, CubaOne
November 1, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Orly Nathan, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
HBI Scholar in Residence
At HBI, Orly Nathan will undertake an archival research case study, which has evolved from the work on “She Knows," Israel's Gender Knowledge Center and Isha L’Isha. The first aim is to expand the range of the thesaurus terms by tracing the evolution and transformation of terms expressed by Marcia Freedman and used in feminist and gender research and practice. The case study will attempt to propose in-depth cataloguing of a sample of collection documents using the thesaurus, integrated with the existing LCSH- Library of Congress Subject Headings.
October 31, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish and Gender Studies
The Jewish Heritage Alliance and their participating co-hosting partners resume the Women of Sefarad Series presenting “Heroines”, an event celebrating the courage and determination of the Women of Sefarad who played a unique and special role during Medieval and Early Modern times.
This program is being presented by the Jewish Heritage Alliance in partnership with ANU Museum of the Jewish People, the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, The American Sephardi Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience, Fundación HispanoJudía, EJCC European Jewish Community Center, University of Miami (Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies), Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Kulanu.
October 27, 2021
The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series
Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Batalion’s deep exploration of the brave women of the Jewish resistance in the Nazi ghettos.
HBI is honored to have funded a portion of Batalion’s research. Read more in the New York Times.
HBI is a network member of the Jewish Book Council.
VIEW JUDY BATALION SPEAKING ABOUT THE IMPACT OF HER HBI RESEARCH AWARDS
October 25, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Keren McGinity, Brandeis University
HBI Research Associate
October 14, 2021
Studio Israel is an online conversation series that looks at Israeli culture and diversity through the lens of contemporary Israeli artists and creatives. Featuring visual and performing artists, designers, dancers and more, all framed by Brandeis University academic expertise.
Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, in conversation with Israeli-born Palestinian multi-media artist, director, and actor Raida Adon.
This program is presented by Studio Israel, an online conversation series that looks at Israeli culture and diversity through the lens of contemporary Israeli artists and creatives. Chaired by Caron Tabb. Studio Israel is a partnership among Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Jewish Arts Collaborative, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and the Vilna Shul, and is made possible by generous support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies. This event is also cosponsored by the Rose Art Museum, and is supported by the Essential Israel New Israel Fund for Artists.
October 12, 2021
The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series
In Asylum, A Memoir of Family Secrets, Judy Bolton-Fasman explores her family’s secret and tumultuous past with warmth, passion, and subtle humor, firmly rooted in Jewish tradition.
After complying with her father's request to burn a package of his still unread letters, Bolton-Fasman began to explore her bifurcated ancestry - a Sephardic, Spanish/Ladino-speaking culture inherited from her mother and an Ashkenazi, English-only, old-fashioned American patriotism from her father. While Asylum asks how much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past, Bolton-Fasman shows that the answers may lie in the exploration itself.
HBI is proud to have supported Bolton-Fasman’s research and writing during the early phases of her project.
October 12, 2021
Cosponsored with the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies
October 5, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish and Gender Studies
Adriana Katzew, JARTS 2021 Community Creative Fellow and Dalia Wassner, Director of HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies discuss the power of material art in claiming and transmitting personal identity and group history.
Co-Sponsor: JARTS
September 27, 2021
What if all the genders in the Torah were switched? Tamar Biala and Yael Kanarek discuss the HerTorah Project that gender bends the Torah to reveal the divine influence in women’s body language.
May 13, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College
Jessica Kirzane, University of Chicago
April 28, 2021
HBI Virtual Conversations
A discussion on Jewish women's writing with Dr. Nora Gold, award-winning author, editor of Jewish Fiction .net, and long-standing HBI Academic Advisory member. Dr. Gold was joined by Israeli author Nora Houri-Haim, and American author Diane Lederman who shared their work.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Fiction .net and the Consulates General of Israel to New England and to Toronto/Western Canada
April 26, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Gwynn Kessler, Swarthmore College
HBI Spring 2021 Scholar in Residence
March 11 & April 22, 2021
A two-part series — held in conjunction with Professor Ilana Szobel’s course, Disability Cultures: Art, Film, and Literature of People with Disabilities — that explores real-life experiences and artistic performances of people living with disability in Israel. Artists, writers, and scholars will examine the intersection of disability with Zionist ideology, gender, race, and class.
Presented by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University and cosponsored by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute; the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies; the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy; and the Program in Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP), all housed at Brandeis University.
April 22, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies
LAJGS welcomes Stephen A. Sadow, Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature and Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, for a conversation about Costa Rican poet and writer of short-stories, Rosita Kalina (1934-2004).
Co-Sponsor: Brandeis Creative Writing Program
April 14, 2021
This program launched the book, "Hadassah: An American Story," by Hadassah Lieberman, published by Brandeis University Press in the HBI Series on Jewish Women.
Sponsored by the Office of the President
April 12, 2021
This program is a partnership between HBI and The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture with promotional support from the Jewish Women's Archive, The Holocaust Center LA, and the Illinois Holocaust Center and Museum.
April 12, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Sari Fein, Brandeis University
HBI Spring 2021 Scholar in Residence
Studio Israel is a new series, chaired by Caron Tabb, that gives an insider’s view of Israeli society through an array of contemporary creative female voices of diverse Israeli backgrounds. Each one-hour conversation features art and expertise that shed light on important social, cultural, and political issues in Israel today.
The series is a collaboration between the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Jewish Arts Collaborative, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. It is made possible with generous support from CJP Arts & Culture.
Oct. 15, 2020
Dec. 10, 2020
Feb. 11, 2021
April 8, 2021
April 8, 2021
Presented by the WSRC Holocaust Research Study Group
April 6, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Michal Raucher, Rutgers University
April 1, 2021
HBI Research Associate, Dr. Sivan Rajuan Shtang interviewed 2021 HBI artist Camille Eskell.
More information on the exhibition.
Co-sponsored with the Vilna Shul
March 24, 2021
HBI Artist Program
March 22, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Samantha Pickette, Boston University
March 17, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies
Professor Jonathan Sarna in conversation with Sephardic scholar Ronnie Perelis, on the well-traversed world of Sephardic America and its intersection with early U.S. Jewish History.
March 11, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies
Ron Duncan Hart, anthropologist and author of Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey (2020), and Mary Morris, author of Gateway to the Moon (2018), will engage contemporary cultural and political ramifications of the historic crypto-Jewish presence in the Americas.
Co-sponsors: Brandeis Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies. J-Lats Princeton
This program is made possible with generous support from the Ostrowicz Lilienthal
March 8, 2021
The Boston Jewish Film Festival
Join us for a live conversation with subject Rachel Madpis Ben Dor and moderated by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe.
March 8, 2021
HBI Seminar Series
Ayala Fader, Fordham University
March 3, 2021
A collaboration between the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University and The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University
Jacqueline Saper and Farideh Goldin Discuss Memoirs of Iranian Jewish Girlhood
February 25, 2021
HBI Virtual Conversations with Professor Jodi Eichler-Levine
In Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community, Jodi Eichler-Levine, Ph.D., Professor of Jewish Civilization and Associate Professor of Religion Studies at Lehigh University, takes us inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement through her travels across the country to homes, craft conventions, synagogue knitting circles, and craftivist actions.
February 22, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies
A mediated conversation between Edith Scott Saavedra, author of The Lamps of Albarracín (2019), and Spanish historians Lucía Conte Aguilar and Miguel Angel Motis, as they discuss the feminist experience of the Inquisition and end of Iberian Jewry, as well as the revival of Spain’s Jewish heritage in the present day.
Co-sponsors: Brandeis Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, J-Lats Princeton
This program is made possible with generous support from the Ostrowicz Lilienthal
February 10, 2021
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies
LAJGS in conversation with Laura Limonic on her award-winning book, Kugel and Frijoles (2019), which offers new insights into the diversity of Jews and Latino/as in the United States.
February 4, 2021
LAJGS in conversation with Leah Soibel, Fuente Latina founder and CEO, and Susanne Althoff, journalist and author of Launching While Female (2020).
Co-sponsors: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis International Business School (Asper Center, Latin American Initiative, Israel Initiative), Brandeis Journalism Program
January 27, 2021
In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, we co-sponsored a panel to discuss the search for a little-known Holocaust victim, Matilda Olkin, and her extended family who were killed in an isolated location in northern Lithuania in the beginning of Holocaust in 1941. The film, “Finding Matilda: The Anne Frank of Lithuania" by Kyle Conti, himself a college student, follows the search for the mass grave.
January 27, 2021