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Summer 2023 Prizes and Fellowships for Study and Research in Jewish Studies for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Rabbi Jeff Sultar: Does A Golem Count in a Minyan?
Join Rabbi Jeff Sultar for Lunch and Learn Shabbat, Feb. 11, 12:00 PM at Harvard Hillel (Pot Luck: Bring a non-meat dish to share) Also on Zoom: https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/my/rabbijim While a golem — an artificially-made human being — may never have physically existed, the legend has lived on in the imaginations of people for thousands of…
“Pearl of Warsaw” Klezmer Band: Live at the HMANE
On Monday, January 31, we hosted a klezmer party featuring Harvard Ph.D. candidate in historical musicology Uri Schreter, klezmer educator Rebecca MacInnes of the band Mamaliga, and Isabel Frey, a visiting scholar from the University of Music & Performing Arts in Vienna. The program focused on Jewish tunes from Poland, including “Pearl from Warsaw,” from…
New Course Offeing: Image making in the Jewish imagination: drawing trauma, home and the diasporic condition
Weinstock Visiting Professor Ruth Mandel (from University College London) will be teaching a new course this semester: ANTHRO 2689: Image making in the Jewish imagination: drawing trauma, home and the diasporic condition This class explores a range of graphic narrative works—comix–including Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, and many others, that deal with the Holocaust and other themes….
Rachelle Grossman named the Bibliographical Society of America’s Pantzer New Scholar
We are happy to share that Rachelle Grossman, graduate student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, was named the Bibliographical Society of America’s Pantzer New Scholar for her work on postwar Yiddish publishing. She will be speaking at the upcoming BSA conference later this month. Rachelle’s research was supported by the CJS….
Welcome Ran Bechor, New Modern Hebrew Instructor
Ran will be teaching Modern Hebrew to our beginner and intermediate classes Ran Bechor is an educator, Hebrew playwright and theatre director. For the past two years, he was the principal of a school for the gifted in Jerusalem. Bechor had previously initiated and managed an Arabic language school through theater. He is a former…
Welcome Maura Gould, CJS’s new Events Coordinator
We are thrilled to announce that Maura Gould has joined the Center for Jewish Studies staff as our new Events Coordinator. Maura has training and experience in event planning, and will be a great asset as we continue to expand our activities. In her free time, she likes gardening, kayaking, and taking long walks with…
Congratulations Shaye J.D. Cohen on publication of The Oxford Annotated Mishnah
Join us in congratulating Shaye J.D. Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah, a project that Shaye Cohen launched over ten years ago, has now finally been published by Oxford University Press. Two co-editors joined the project along the way (one of whom, alas, did not live to see…
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