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Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture Videos

Susan Neiman gives 59th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture, April 7, 2022

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

Annette Yoshiko Reed gives 58th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture, April 7, 2022

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

Professor Sarah Stein delivering 57th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture on November 11th, 2020

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

Professor Michael Fishbane, PhD'71

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

Samuel Moyn, Yale University, "Rights and Nationahood from 1948 to the Present," November 8, 2018

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

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

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

Charlotte Fonrobert

Charlotte Fonrobert, "Taking the Talmud to Town: Judaism in the Public Square," March 30, 2017

David Ellenson

David Ellenson, "To Reshape the World: Interpretation, Renewal, and Feminist Approaches to Jewish Law," November 3, 2015

Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture Audioyuval

"The Organization of Sacred Time among Jews and Christians"

49th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture,Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, March 28, 2012

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Picture of Author Marat Grinberg in conversation with Prof. ChaeRan Freeze discussed his book over Zoom

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

Picture of Sven-Erik Rose at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Jordan Katz at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Elias Sacks at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Joshua Picard at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Elisabeth Gallas at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Michal Bar-Asher Siegal at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Na'ama Rokem at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of Shira Billet at the Jewish Studies Colloquium.

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

Picture of David Koffman.

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

Picture of Daniella Farah.

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

Picture of David Shyovitz.

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

Martin Dean discussing his papers Jewish Studies Colloquium -November 16 2021

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

Professor Devi Mays delivering a Jewish Studies Colloquium, presenting on her paper: "Two Steps from the Abyss: An Ottoman Jewish Witness to War."

Professor Devi Mays, "Two Steps from the Abyss: An Ottoman Jewish Witness to War," October 12th, 2021

Picture of Eugene Sheppard, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff on a virtual Zoom screen.

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

Noam Sienna in the virtual session of the Jewish Studies Colloquium, April 2021

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

Joseph Sassoon in the virtual Jewish Studies Colloquium Event.

Professor Joseph Sassoon, "The Global Merchants: The World of the Sassoons", March 23 2021

Professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz discussing her papers Jewish Studies Colloquium - Feb 23 2021

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

Screen shot of Kim Wünschmann as she delivers her Jewish Studies Colloquium presentation over Zoom

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

The Quest for Community: The Havurah Movement and its Impact on American Judaism

"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