Events
Upcoming Events
October 25, 2022
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium will feature Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Associate Professor, the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, presenting the paper "Ifra Hormiz: Talmudic Stories of the Persian Queen Mother and the Bavli's Redaction." The event will be held in Lown 315 and streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 12:45 - 2:05 p.m. Eastern.
The colloquium provides a forum for graduate students and faculty from Brandeis University and academic institutions around the world to discuss their current research and works-in-progress. The forum engages a wide range of topics in Jewish studies from history and thought to political and national identity. Register now for the Zoom live stream!
Recent Events
September 13, 2022
The most recent meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature & Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, presenting the paper "Pedagogy, Language, and Labor Politics in Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks." The event was held in Lown 315 and streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 12:45 - 2:05 p.m. Eastern. Recording is forthcoming.
April 12, 2022
On Tuesday, April 12, the Tauber Institute cosponsored a free screening of the new digital restoration of Memories of the Eichmann Trial (Dir. David Perlov, 1979, Hebrew & Polish w/ English subtitles) at the Wasserman Cinematheque at Brandeis University. The event was presented by the National Center for Jewish Film.
The screening was followed by a panel discussion featuring filmmaker Yael Perlov, Professor Laura Jockusch, and NCJF Executive Director Sharon Pucker Rivo, introduced by Professor Jonathan Sarna.
David Perlov’s 1979 documentary Memories of the Eichmann Trial reveals the trial’s pivotal role in Israeli society through intimate interviews with Holocaust survivors, Israelis of the second generation, and others directly involved in the case. Broadcast only once on Israeli television, the film was rediscovered and restored by the Perlov family in partnership with the Yad Vashem Visual Center, with support from the Forum for the Preservation of Audio-Visual Memory in Israel.
April 12, 2022
This meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Kim Wünschmann, director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, presenting the paper "How to Draw German-Jewish History? The Graphic History Project 'Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past.'" This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Eastern. The colloquium provides a forum for graduate students and faculty from Brandeis University and academic institutions around the world to discuss their current research and works-in-progress. The forum engages a wide range of topics in Jewish studies from history and thought to political and national identity.
April 7, 2022
The 58th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture featured Annette Yoshiko Reed of New York University presenting "Forgetting Second Temple Judaism: History, Memory, and the Dead Sea Scrolls" on Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 PM Eastern. The event streamed live on Zoom. The recording will be posted on the Tauber Institute website in the next few weeks.
Annette Yoshiko Reed is a Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Religious Studies at New York University. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with a special concern for retheorizing religion, identity, and difference. Her books include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge 2005), Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (Mohr Siebeck, 2018), Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (with John Reeves; Oxford 2018), and Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (Cambridge 2020).
March 15, 2022
This meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Shira Billet of Yale University, presenting the paper "Hermann Cohen's Virtue Ethics: Power and Agency within the Experience of Marginalization." This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30pm Eastern. The colloquium provides a forum for graduate students and faculty from Brandeis University and academic institutions around the world to discuss their current research and works-in-progress. The forum engages a wide range of topics in Jewish studies from history and thought to political and national identity.
February 15, 2022
This meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Daniella Farah of Rice University presenting the paper "From the 'Wretched' to the 'Bourgeoisie': Jews in Modern Iran." This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Eastern. The colloquium provides a forum for graduate students and faculty from Brandeis University and academic institutions around the world to discuss their current research and works-in-progress. The forum engages a wide range of topics in Jewish studies from history and thought to political and national identity.
January 18, 2022
This past meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured David Shyovitz of Northwestern University presenting the paper "Soul Food and Salvation in Medieval Ashkenaz: the Ambrosian Bible's 'Heavenly Banquet' Revisited." This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Eastern. The colloquium provides a forum for graduate students and faculty from Brandeis University and academic institutions around the world to discuss their current research and works-in-progress. The forum engages a wide range of topics in Jewish studies from history and thought to political and national identity.
