Seminars

  • Founded
    1968
  • Seminar Number
    501

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.


Co-Chairs
Elisheva Carlebach
ecarlebach@columbia.edu

Rebecca Kobrin
rk2351@columbia.edu

Rapporteur
Charles Steinman
ces2273@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

10/23/2023 107 Uris, Columbia University
6:30 PM
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah
Alan Verskin, University of Toronto




03/27/2024 617 Kent Hall, Columbia University
6:00 PM
The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible
Rebecca Wollenburg, University of Michigan