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Spring 2008: Lecture Series*
Tuesday, April 8
Professor Joseph Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Spinoza in the Library of an Eighteenth-Century Sephardic Rabbi 12:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Professor Yosef Kaplan is the Bernard Cherrick Professor of the History of the Jewish People in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University. An expert on the history of the Jews in Spain, the Conversos in post-1492 Iberia, and the western Sephardi diaspora, Professor Kaplan has written several books, most notably From Christianity to Judaism: The Life and Work of Isaac Orobio de Castro (1982); Judíos Nuevos en Amsterdam. Estudios sobre la historia social e intellectual del judaísmo sefardí en el siglo XVII (1996); and An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Western Sephardi Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century (2000). He has also edited several books, including Jews and Conversos: Studies in Society and the Inquisition (1985); Exile and Diaspora: Studies in the History of the Jewish People Presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (1991); Jews and Conversos at the Time of the Expulsion (2001); and Kehal Yisrael: Jewish Self-Rule Through the Ages, vol. 2, The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (2004). He is the author of 92 scholarly articles on Sephardi Jews, Conversos, and the Jews of early modern Amsterdam. His latest work, The Book of the Ymposta, 1622-1639, a critical edition of the minute book of the three Portugese Jewish communities in Amsterdam, will appear very soon.
Thursday, May 1
Professor Michael Brenner, University of Munich: Between Jerusalem and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Master Narratives of Jewish History 4:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Professor Michael Brenner holds the Chair in Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. A historian of the Jews in Germany, he is the author of several books, including The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (1996); After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (1997); and Zionism: A Brief History (2003). He has also edited German-Jewish History in Modern Times (with Michael Meyer, 4 volumes, 1996); In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (with Derek Penslar, 1998); Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (with Vicki Caron and Uri Kaufmann, 2003); and Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe (with Gideon Reuveni, 2006). He is the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the academic year 2007-2008.
Thursday, May 8
Professor Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland: Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Religious Enhusiasm (“Schwärmerei”) 12:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
* All lectures are free and open to the public.
Spring/Summer 2008
April
Conference:
Iraq from Within, Iraq from Without: The Changing Views of a Nation. Sponsored by the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies.
Sunday, April 6
“The Women Who Kept the Song: ‘Cochin’ Jewish Women’s Songs in India and Israel ” -- From India to Israel-The Musical Heritage of Cochin. 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Prince Georges Room, Stamp Student Union
For centuries Jewish women along India’s Malabar Coast filled notebooks with music they sang in Malayalam at weddings, community celebrations and rituals. Now they have been painstakingly re-discovered, performed and recorded in Israel, and been the subject of international exchange on the cultures of Hindus, Christians and Jews in India’s vibrant multi-ethnic Kerala region. A unique local and international partnership will present this music and those key to its revival at three DC area events.
Smita Jassal (Anthropologist, Columbia University) ‘Some Motifs in Indian Women’s Folksongs’
Barbara Johnson (Anthropologist, Ithaca College) ‘The Singers and the Songs in Kerala’
Galia Hacco and Venus Lane (Nirit Singers of Israel) ‘The Legacy of Our Grandmothers: Revival in Israel’
Scaria Zacharia (Linguist, Sanskrit University, Kerala, India)
Co-sponsored by the Embassies of India and Israel, University of Maryland Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, Office of International Programs, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and Library of Congress,Asia Division.
August
Conference:
Jewish Education. Sponsored by Bar Ilan University, Yeshiva University, and the University of Maryland.
Fall 2008
November 2-3
Conference:
"Iranian Jewry: From Past to Present" With the Center for Persian Studies.
Spring 2009
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