Events
Upcoming Events
April 29, 2021
Streaming live at 10:30am Eastern!
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourages and Jewish communities, Abravanel was one of the greatest leaders and thinkers of Iberian Jewry in the aftermath of the expulsion of 1492.
Recent Events
April 20, 2021
Streamed live. Recording is forthcoming.
This meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Noam Sienna of the University of Minnesota, presenting the paper "'Sit and Study This Book with Your Family': Print Culture in 19th-Century North Africa." This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 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.
April 15, 2021
Streamed live. Recording is forthcoming.
Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff present students and scholars with a vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world.
March 23, 2021
The most recent meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Joseph Sassoon of Georgetown University, who presented the paper "The Global Merchants: The World of the Sassoons." This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 12:30 - 1:30pm. 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.
March 16, 2021
A Symposium Marking the 100th Year Since his Passing
March 2, March 9, and March 16 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST
Via Zoom
Nearly a century since his passing, the life and work of Aharon David Gordon (1856-1922) have drawn renewed attention. A flurry of new publications from manuscripts, scholarly studies, and renewed popular interest in Gordon among social activists and artists, point to the vitality of his thought, as a point of entry into Zionist history, and a means of exploring Jewish cultural and social renaissance today. This major figure is little-known in the English-speaking world. The symposium was organized by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies in cooperation with the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry.
February 23, 2021
This meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium featured Sarit Kattan Gribetz of Fordham University, who presented the paper "Jerusalem's Ancient Queens: Gender, Power, and Erasure." This event streamed live on Zoom on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 12:30 - 1:30pm. 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.
