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…
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….
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….
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…
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…
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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Congratulations Miriam Udel! The CJS is happy to share that our alumna, Yiddish studies scholar Miriam Udel, has been named the new director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.Dr. Udel is an associate professor of Yiddish language, literature and culture at Emory University. Read about her appointment in the Atlanta Jewish…
