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2023 Starr Fellows

HMANE (formerly The Semitic Museum), 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA

HARRY STARR FELLOWSHIP IN JUDAICA SEMINARS SPRING 2023

Theme: Jewish Studies and the Arts

Faculty hosts: Joseph Koerner, Kay Shelemay and David Stern

BY INVITATION
Wednesdays 12:00PM – 1:30PM

  • January 25: ORIENTATION MEETING, Kay Shelemay (G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies): “Connecting Musical Worlds: Crossroads in Jewish and African Studies”
  • February 1: David Stern (Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University): “On Tiny Jewish Characters”
  • February 15: Jules Riegel (Starr Fellow), Hollins University: “Saving a Lost Generation: Children and Music in the Warsaw Ghetto”
  • February 8: Sivan Gottlieb (Starr Fellow), Bar-Ilan University: “Visualizing Hebrew Knowledge: Shape and Text in Scientific Manuscripts: The Diagram of the Soul as a Case Study”
  • February 22: Samantha Cooper (Starr Fellow), New York University: “Undesirables in the Diamond Horseshoe”
  • March 1: Rivka Elitzur-Leiman (Starr Fellow), NYU/Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: “‘Two pieces, one amulet’ – Visuality and Practice in Late Antique Jewish Amulets”
  • March 8: Victor Couto Tiribás (Starr Fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore: “The Rabbi and the Painter: Menasseh ben Israel, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the ‘Glorious Stone’”
  • March 15: (NO SEMINAR): SPRING BREAK
  • March 22: Paula Ansaldo (Starr Fellow), University of Buenos Aires: “Jewish theatre in South America and its impact on the local theatre scene”
  • March 29: Rabbi Jeffrey Sultar (Silver Fellow), Congregation B’nai Jacob: “The Golem in Our LivesToday: Contemporary Implications of an Ancient Legend”
  • April 5: (NO SEMINAR): PASSOVER
  • April 12: (NO SEMINAR): Passover
  • April 19: Isabel Frey (Fellow), University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna: “Learning to listen to Yiddish folksongs”
  • April 26: WRAP-UP SESSION, Joseph Koerner (Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture): “Remembering Repeating”
  • May 3: snow day make up (if necessary)