2022 Study of Collections Fellowship Report: The Unpublished Materials of Charles Clermont-Ganneau
Matthew Suriano 2022 summer research in London's British Museum
From biblical archaeology to queer theory, the Jewish studies program at the University of Maryland is a center for intellectual inquiry about Jews and Judaism.
This section was inspired by the 2021 book No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging, edited by David S. Koffman. The book is a collection of eighteen schol-arly essays that explore topics relating to home, diaspora, and belonging within the context of Canadian Jewry. Wanting to further unpack some of the themes the book raised, we asked two groups of select scholars to read and reflect on ways these topics are manifested in their own research and fields of expertise. The first group is made of six scholars who specialize in the study of other minority groups in Canada, the other group consists of five scholars of Jewish diaspora communities in other countries.
Vardit Lightstone, Post-Doc fellow for Jewish Studies
Canadian Jewish Studies/ Etudes juives canadiennes vo. 36: Fall 2023
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This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home."
Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries, examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada, analyse specific historical moments and literary texts, reflect deeply personal histories, and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity.
Co-edited by Vardit Lightstone, Post-Doc fellow for Jewish Studies
The national security realm poses great challenges to senior military officers and civilian officials. These leaders oftentimes attend designated Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) institutions as a prerequisite for their future appointments. The article examines how these colleges and universities instill in their graduates the intellectual capacity to effectively engage and solve macro-level and acute strategic challenges as well as employ critical thinking skills to ensure intellectual agility and flexibility.
The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology, but its original context and setting is less-known due to the circumstances following Charles Clermont-Ganneau’s discovery in 1870.
Hebrew is a strictly gender-binary language, with people and objects receiving a gender label.
Pronouns, nouns, verbs, and adjectives must agree in gender and number.
Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment
Amos Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination