Seminars

Israel and Jewish Studies

  • 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
Professor Elisheva Carlebach
ecarlebach@columbia.edu

Professor Rebecca Kobrin
rk2351@columbia.edu

Rapporteur
Charles Steinman
ces2273@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

10/21/2022 617 Kent Hall, Columbia University
6:00 PM
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Devi Mays, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at University of Michigan




11/17/2022 617 Kent Hall, Columbia University
6:00 PM
Ruth: A Migrant's Tale
Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ofer Dynes, Columbia University

Liane Feldman , Columbia University


02/09/2023 617 Kent Hall, Columbia University
6:00 PM
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean
Jessica Marglin , University of Southern California




03/09/2023 617 Kent Hall, Columbia University
6:00 PM
The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition
Stanley Mirvis, Arizona State University