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The CJS welcomes Aleksandra Kremer to its Executive Committee

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The CJS extends a warm welcome to Alexandra Kremer, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the newest member of our Executive Committee.Her main area of research and teaching is Polish literature and culture, with special interests in modern poetry, sound studies, cultural history, visual arts,…

Harvard Students Curate Exhibition of Haggadot from Harvard Library

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Visit the Loeb Music Library from now until April 17 to view ancient, funny, breathtaking and moving Haggadot from the Harvard Judaica Collection.  Harvard Haggadot is a flash-curated exhibition showcasing the Judaica Collection’s unique resources presented by Harvard students. The group met in January, right before the start of the Spring semester and embarked upon an…

Rabbi Jeff Sultar: Does A Golem Count in a Minyan?

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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

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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

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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…