Month: April 2025

Annette Yoshiko Reed Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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The CJS extends its congratulations to Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed for this wonderful achievement! Professor Reed, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and a member of the CJS’s Executive Committee, was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship along with two other Harvard professors: Christopher Muller, Professor of Sociology, and Katarina…

Harvard Judaica Publishes New Undergraduate Thesis

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The CJS congratulates Julia Tellides ’24 for the publication of her thesis in the the Harvard Judaica Collection Student Research Papers Series. Julia’s paper, Defending “The Jerusalem of the Balkans”: Resilience and Disempowerment in Interwar Jewish Thessaloniki is available digitally and in print upon request. For further details see the Harvard Judaica Newsletter….

Upcoming CMES Events

Forwarded: Upcoming Events at the CMES Unpacking Israel’s Current Political Landscape | Lihi Ben Shitrit Lihi Ben Shitrit, Henry and Marilyn Taub Associate Professor of Israel Studies; Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; and Director, Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University Monday, April 28, 2025, 4:30pm to 6:00pmCMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA…

“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” | Film Screening and After-Talk

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“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” | Film Screening and After-Talk April 23, 2025, 6:00 pm, Emerson Hall 105 Dear members of the CJS community,Please see the forwarded message below: The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes unearths secret recordings of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust’s Final Solution, which definitively…

No Monument: Babyn Yar as Site of History, Memory, and Politics | Victoria Smolkin

No Monument: Babyn Yar as Site of History, Memory, and Politics | Victoria Smolkin Victoria Smolkin is Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University.Moderated by Anna Bisikalo, PhD candidate in modern Eastern European History at Harvard University. April 16, 2025 5:00PM – 6:30PMCGIS-Knafel/North Building, 2nd Floor, Room K-262 For more details go to the HURI event page. This…