The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies

Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
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Event Archive 2016 - Present

Mehrdad Amanat - 'Religious syncretism and Social Change: Jews of Hamadan, 1880s to 1920s'

Description: 
Mehrdad Amanat, a fellow of the Iranian Studies Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara, will present a lecture on the Jews of Hamadan during the period from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1920s. This lecture is part of a two-day conference held in honor of Prof. Heshmat Moayyad (1928–2018). For a complete conference schedule see https://cmes.uchicago.edu/page/persian-and-iranian-studies-honor-heshmat-moayyad.
Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2019

Persian and Iranian Studies in Honor of Heshmat Moayyad

Description: 
Persian and Iranian Studies in Honor of Heshmat Moayyad A Two-day Conference at the University of Chicago Franke Institute, University of Chicago, 8 – 9 March 2019 https://cmes.uchicago.edu/page/persian-and-iranian-studies-honor-heshmat-moayyad Sponsored by: American Institute of Iranian Studies Center for Middle Eastern Studies Committee on South Asian Studies Franke Institute Joyce and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2019
Category: 
Discussions

Michal Peles-Almagor - Jewish Studies Workshop

Description: 
Michal Peles-Almagor, PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. For more information, contact Joel Swanson, at joelhswanson@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, February 25, 2019
Category: 
Workshops

Miriam Frenkel - 'What Women Want: Jewish Women's Wills from the Cairo Genizah'

Description: 
Within the androcentric Geniza society, wills were perhaps the only way in which women could sound their voice, and even affect and change power relations in the family and in the community. Through their wills women could redistribute family assets and properties. This ability awarded them with the power to shape, undermine, strengthen, or weaken personal, familial, and communal relationships. Through their wills women could also manipulate and send messages. The mere assumption about a potential will could affect behavior, emotions, and relationships in the family and in the community in a way that awarded women potential power that some of them learned to use. Miriam Frenkel, Associate Professor in the Department for Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel Institute Visiting Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, will share with us her work on this subject. A light reception will follow. For information contact Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Category: 
Lectures

Public lecture by Jeffrey Stackert: “Identifying Compositional Strata in the Pentateuchal Deuteronomic Source: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations”

Description: 
A public lecture by Jeffrey Stackert: “Identifying Compositional Strata in the Pentateuchal Deuteronomic Source: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations” The lecture opens the 3rd Annual Chicago-Yale Pentateuch Colloquium, a forum for faculty and advanced students from around the world to present works in progress and discuss the narrative problems of the Pentateuch and their source-critical solutions. Stackert is Director of MA Studies and Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible; also in the College and the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; Associate Faculty in the Department of Classics and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Date: 
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Category: 
Lectures

Performance and reception: Davidson and his Interlocutors

Description: 
In Celebration of Critical Inquiry Volume 45, No. 2 Winter 2019: 'Davidson and His Interlocutors'-- a performance by the Quartet of Dave Rempis, Joshua Abrams, Jim Baker, and Avreeayl Ra. With remarks by Daniel Wyche and Arnold I. Davidson The quartet of Dave Rempis (Saxophone), Avreeayl Ra (Drums), Joshua Abrams (Bass), & Jim Baker (piano/ARP) is a perfect example of what makes Chicago such a fertile breeding ground for improvised music; four musicians of widely varying ages, backgrounds, playing experiences, and musical interests join forces to deliver moments of both sublime beauty and volcanic energy, continually tempered by the seamless narrative momentum that they weave together in a seemingly effortless way. Convened in the fall of 2012, the band keeps up a regular concert schedule in Chicago and abroad, and their group dynamic reveals the type of incredibly seasoned chemistry that only such regular performances could allow. With Joshua Abrams on bass, and Avreeayl Ra on his characteristically wide array of percussion, the music these four create together is wide-ranging in nature, drawing upon influences from around the world to create a sound that's totally unique within the current milieu of improvised music. The group released their first recording “Aphelion” in January of 2014 on Aerophonic Records, and their second record, “Perihelion,” in June of 2016. Arnold I. Davidson is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, the Divinity School, and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. European Editor of Critical Inquiry, he is also a director of the France-Chicago Center. His major fields of research and teaching are the history of contemporary European philosophy, the history of moral and political philosophy, the history of the human sciences, the history and philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Judaism. Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Departments of Philosophy and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, and Critical Inquiry
Date: 
Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community

Description: 
The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community is an event series at the University of Chicago exploring the experience of many thousands of Jewish refugees who survived World War II in Shanghai. This series opens with an exhibit on the third floor of the Regenstein Library featuring unique historical objects, documents, and photographs donated by families who lived in Shanghai during the war. On March 13th, at 5:30 pm in Fulton Hall, the University will host W. Michael Blumenthal, who came of age in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and then went on to become President Carter’s Secretary of the Treasury. Following his keynote conversation with Creative Writing faculty member and novelist Rachel DeWoskin, there will be a concert of war-time classical music, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's assistant concertmaster, violinist Yuan-Qing Yu, and her quartet, Civitas Ensemble. On March 14th, a day-long symposium will be held at the Franke Institute, featuring conversations between University of Chicago faculty and invited guests on topics including the experience of the Shanghai Jews; Iraqi Jewish business networks and the financial history of the Jewish elites in China; the literature of war-time childhood and adolescence; the role of fiction in creating and remembering history; the musical and artistic history and legacy of the Shanghai Jews; and readings of both Holocaust-era and contemporary poetry and prose. This series was made possible by support from the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; The Franke Institute; The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS); the Departments of Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and History; the Program on Creative Writing; and a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. For information, contact Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu
Date: 
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Category: 
Discussions

Na'ama Rokem - 'Arendt's Itineraries'

Description: 
Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop on Monday, January 7th at 5:00 pm in Swift Hall for a presentation by Professor Na'ama Rokem of the Departments of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (NELC) and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Professor Rokem's talk is entitled 'Arendt's Itineraries' and will concern Hannah Arendt's relationship to political Zionism. The Jewish Studies Workshop is committed to being a fully accessible workshop. For any questions or concerns about accessibility, please contact the workshop coordinators, Joel Swanson (joelhswanson@uchicago.edu) and Mendel Kranz (mkranz@uchicago.edu).
Date: 
Monday, January 7, 2019
Category: 
Workshops

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