Seminars

Israel and Jewish Studies

Year Founded 1968

Seminar # 501

StatusActive

This seminar brings together approximately forty scholars from Columbia and the greater New York academic community. The seminar deals with the whole range of topics relating to Jewish studies and Israel—history, literature, sociology, religion, and political studies—and frequently presents distinguished lecturers from Israeli and European universities.

Chair/s

Elisheva Carlebach

ecarlebach@columbia.edu

Rebecca Kobrin

rk2351@columbia.edu

Rapporteur/s

Nesya Batsheva Lebeau Nelkin

nbn2112@columbia.edu

External Website

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

25
Nov

November 25, 20246:00 pm -

Kent Hall

Room 617

Columbia University

Urban History at the Seams: Frankfurt’s Judengasse and Early Modern Jewish-Christian Relations
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Speaker/s

Debra Kaplan, Bar-Ilan University

Elisheva Carlebach,

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

11
Nov

November 11, 20246:00 pm -

Kent Hall

Room 617

Columbia University

A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

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Speaker/s

Ayelet Brinn, University of Hartford

Agi Legutko,

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Scheduled

08
May

May 8, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Zoom

The Missing Chapter in Ottoman-Jewish Musical and Cultural History: Songs, Soundscapes, and Early Modern Society

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Speaker/s

Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University

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Cancelled

27
Mar

March 27, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Uris Hall

Room 107

Columbia University

The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible

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Speaker/s

Rebecca Wollenburg, University of Michigan

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Scheduled

23
Oct

October 23, 20236:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Uris Hall

Room 107

Columbia University

Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah

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Speaker/s

Alan Verskin, University of Toronto

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