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

Rebecca Kobrin

Rapporteur/s

Nesya Batsheva Lebeau Nelkin

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Meeting Schedule

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Past Meetings

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

Speaker/s

Debra Kaplan, Bar-Ilan University

Elisheva Carlebach,

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

Speaker/s

Ayelet Brinn, University of Hartford

Agi Legutko,

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

Speaker/s

Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University

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

Speaker/s

Rebecca Wollenburg, University of Michigan

Scheduled

23
Oct

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

Uris Hall

Room 107

Columbia University

Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah

Speaker/s

Alan Verskin, University of Toronto

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