The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies invites you to the 2017 Taubman Lecture Series by Professor David Biale. On Jewish Heresy I A Three Lecture Series Lecture 1 Rabbinizing Heresy: Korah in the Midrash When: Monday, March 13, 7:00 p.m. Lecture 2 The Afterlives of Baruch Spinoza and Shabbatai Zvi When: […]
The Ashkenazim (Jews of Central and Eastern Europe) have been singing in Yiddish since the Middle Ages. Their historical song repertoires were very different from today's Yiddish songs. Diana Matut's lecture will explore the world of Renaissance and Baroque Yiddish song, and answer a set of specific research questions, such as: What did the Jews […]
Free and open to the public Far from a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world. So argue the eight distinguished authors, led by David Biale, of Hasidism: A New History, the first comprehensive account of the movement’s place in […]
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies invite you to the 2018 Taubman Lecture Series by Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed, NYU. Lecture 1 What Was Lost with the Dead Sea Scrolls When: Monday, March 12, 7:00 p.m. Lecture 2 How the Jewishness of Christianity was Forgotten When: Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 p.m. Lecture […]
Additional Program Dates Thu, April 11, 2019 7pm Tue, April 16, 2019 5:30pm Program Schedule Lecture One: Tuesday, April 9, 7pm: Freud, Anna O., and the Linguistic Architecture of the Modern Jewish Self Lecture Two: Thursday, April 11, 7pm: A Different Diaspora: Translation, Dispersion, and the Rewriting of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Languages Lecture Three: Tuesday, April 16, 5:30pm: Weinreich's […]
Almog Behar is a poet, novelist, and critic. Born in 1978, Behar now lives in Jerusalem. He has published three books of poetry: Zim'on Be'erot (Well's Thirst, 2008), Chut Moshekh Min Ha-Lashon (A Thread Drawing from the Tongue, 2009) and Shirim Le-Asirei Batei-Ha-Sohar (Poems for the Prisoners, 2016); a collection of short stories, Ana Min Al-Yahoud (I am on one of the Jews, […]
Celebrating the richness of the Roman Vishniac Archive, this 2-day event combines an Open House featuring "A Glimpse of Vishniac," a digital display of photographs of Jewish life from Eastern and Central Europe from before World War II, as well as a day-long Symposium with internationally acclaimed scholars discussing the historical context and content of the photographs Vishniac took.
In collaboration with UC Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies, Faculty Director John Efron welcomes the German and Israeli Consul Generals to a reception and program showcasing Leo Baeck Institute’s traveling panel exhibition, Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German Speaking Lands. The program will feature Koret Professor of Jewish History at UC […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Reception: 5:30pm Lecture and Discussion: 6:30pm In person at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley Inaugural Lecturer: Fred Rosenbaum Award-winning educator, teacher, and author (with Eva Libitzky) of the best-selling "Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond." “Liberated, Not Yet Free: […]
Don't miss Professor Ron Hassner's special exhibit opening and book launch, Anatomy of Torture: Testimonies from the Berkeley Archive, to celebrate the publication of his newest book, “Anatomy of Torture," (Cornell, 2022) making a trove of original manuscripts from the UC Berkeley archives that detail the persecution of Spanish Jews in the 16th and 17th […]
Presented by BAMPFA, guest curator Lawrence Rinder looks at Rina Kimche’s ceramics in the context of Israeli Modernism, as well as touching on her connections to other international artistic currents. He focuses in particular on the works in the current exhibition, which date from the 1970s to the 2010s and show diverse expressions of her key themes: history, fragmentation, resilience, and survival.
