The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

Mohamad Ballan, Stony Brook University, "Andalusi Scholar-Officials in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World," April 22, 2025

Noa Tsaushu, Columbia University, "Yiddish Art: The Formal and Social Functions of Marginality," March 19, 2025

Author Conversations at the Tauber Institute: Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov on "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" on January 22, 2025

Author Conversations at the Tauber Institute: Scott Ury and Guy Miron on "Antisemitism and the Politics of History" on Tuesday, February 13, 2024.

Juliet Carey and Abigail Green "Jewish Country Houses," March 25, 2025

Susannah Heschel, "Does Jewish Studies Have a Theory?: Changing Historiographical Methods and Contexts from the 19th Century to the Present," April 4, 2024.

Susan Neiman, "Racism, Antisemitism, and Rethinking Historical Reckoning" Thursday, March 9, 2023

Photo Credit: Susan Neiman giving a talk

Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Forgetting Second Temple Jerusalem; History, Memory, and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” April 7, 2022

Sarah Stein, "A Sephardic Family’s Journey Through the Twentieth Century," Nov. 11, 2020

Michael Fishbane, PhD'71, "Natural Supernaturalism: Themes of Mystic Light and Despair in the Poetry of Chaim Nahman Bialik," Nov. 14, 2019

Samuel Moyn, Yale University, "Rights and Nationhood from 1948 to the Present," Nov. 8, 2018

Elisheva Baumgarten, "Matchmaking and Medieval Family Dynamics: Did Parents Ever Have the Final Word?," Oct. 30, 2017

Author Conversations at the Tauber Institute: Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov on "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" on January 22, 2025

Author Conversations at the Tauber Institute: Scott Ury and Guy Miron on "Antisemitism and the Politics of History" on Tuesday, February 13, 2024.

"The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines," Author Marat Grinberg in conversation with Prof. ChaeRan Freeze, April 27, 2023

Hasidism Book Launch: Eugene Sheppard, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, April 15, 2021

Mohamad Ballan, Stony Brook University, "Andalusi Scholar-Officials in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World," April 22, 2025

Noa Tsaushu, Columbia University, "Yiddish Art: The Formal and Social Functions of Marginality," March 19, 2025

Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto & Joshua Shanes, College of Charleston, "Haredi/Ultra-Orthodox Writings: Definitions, History, and Canon" on January 28

Rebecca Whittmann "Haunted and Hollowed Grounds: Confronting the German Past in the First Person" on December 10, 2024

Yaniv Feller "Confession Booths, Human Zoos, and Adolf Eichmann: Presenting Jews in Berlin" on November 12, 2024

Andrew Berns "Physicians, The Diffusion of Medical Knowledge, and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe" on October 15, 2024

Till Van Rahden "Nationalism and Its Discontents: Jewish Visions of Pluralism in Central Europe, 1850s-1930s" on September 17, 2024

Hasia Diner "Writing American Jewish History: An Irish Project" on Apr. 16, 2024

Eugene Sheppard "Valeriu Marcu: Dialectics, Power and the Writing of History," Mar. 12, 2024

Kirsten Collins "That Other Fornication: Race and Judaism in Foucault's Concept of Critique," Feb. 27, 2024

Jonathan Crane, Emily Filler and Mira Wasserman, "Introducing Modern Jewish Ethics, 1970-Present," Jan. 23, 2024

Paola Tartakoff, "Mendicant Jewish Converts and Miracle Stories in the Medieval Pyrenees," Dec. 5, 2023

Hadar Feldman Samet, "Between the Public and the Communal: Depictions of Sabbatian Spaces in the Late Ottoman Era," Nov. 14, 2023

Ildikó Barna, "Interdisciplinary Exploration of Post-Holocaust History through Digital Tools: Opportunities and Limitations," Oct. 24, 2023

Miriam Goldstein, "The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis," Sept. 12, 2023

Sven-Erik Rose, "Making and Unmaking Literature in Nazi Ghettos in Poland," April 25, 2023

Jordan Katz, "Registers of Belonging, Registers of Difference: Early Modern Jewish Midwives and their Records," March 14, 2023

Elias Sacks, "Do Citizens Need to be Philosophers? Nachman Krochmal's Diasporic Jewish Politics," Feb. 14, 2023

Joshua Picard, "The Precedents and Origin of Djerba's Or Torah Fund," Jan. 24, 2023

Elisabeth Gallas, "A Jewish Bill of Indictment: The New York Black Book of 1946," Nov. 4, 2022

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "Ifra Hormiz: Talmudic Stories of the Persian Queen Mother and the Bavli's Redaction," Oct. 25, 2022

Na'ama Rokem, "Pedagogy, Language, and Labor Politics in Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks," Sept. 13, 2022

Shira Billet, "Hermann Cohen's Virtue Ethics: Power and Agency within the Experience of Marginalization," March 15, 2022

David Koffman, "Métis, Jews, and the Politics of Counting Difference in Canada," Sept. 14, 2021

Daniella Farah, "From the 'Wretched' to the 'Bourgeoisie': Jews in Modern Iran," Feb. 15, 2022

David Shyovitz, "Soul Food and Salvation in Medieval Ashkenaz: the Ambrosian Bible's 'Heavenly Banquet' Revisited," Jan. 18, 2022

Martin Dean, "Babyn Yar 80 Years Later: New Findings, Areas of Dispute, and Remaining Questions," Nov. 16, 2021

Devi Mays, "Two Steps from the Abyss: An Ottoman Jewish Witness to War," Oct. 12, 2021

Noam Sienna, "Sit and Study This Book with Your Family': Print Culture in 19th-Century North Africa," Apr. 20, 2021

Joseph Sassoon, "The Global Merchants: The World of the Sassoons", Mar. 23, 2021

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Jerusalem's Ancient Queens: Gender, Power, and Erasure," Feb. 23, 2021

Kim Wünschmann, "How to Draw German-Jewish History? The Graphic History Project 'Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past,'" Apr. 12, 2022

Marc Dollinger, "From the Left and the Right: Campus Antisemitism and American Jewish Life," Sept. 22, 2021

Jillian Stinchcomb, "Riddling Materiality: The Queen of Sheba, Solomon, and Riddles in Ninth-Century Tradition," Nov. 17, 2021

Luncheon Seminar with Uriah Kfir "Hidden Harmonies: Exploring the Music of Medieval Hebrew Rhymed Narratives" on November 19

"Brandeis in 1948: The Quest for Rights and Social Justice," featuring Jonathan Decter, ChaeRan Freeze, Eugene Sheppard and Laura Jockusch, Oct. 13, 2023

"The Quest for Community: The Havurah Movement and its Impact on American Judaism," featuring Arthur Green, Joseph Reimer, Aliza Arzt, Laura Bellow, Jonathan Sarna and Seth Winberg, June 5, 2019

1948: Seeking Social Justice — 70 Years of Brandeis University, roundtable discussion with Ron Liebowitz,  president of Brandeis University; Stephen Whitfield PhD'72; Jonathan Sarna '75, MA'75 and Deborah Dash Moore '67; April 19, 2019