Event Archive 2016 - Present

Harriet Murav, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. A response will be given by Benjamin Arenstein, PhD student, University of Chicago Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. The paper should be read in advance of the session. The session will be held via Zoom. For a link to the paper and to the Zoom session contact the workshop coordinators Benjamin Arenstein (barenstein@uchicago.edu) or Ido Telem (telem@uchicago.edu).

In A City in Fragments (2020), Yair Wallach (University of London) explores “Jerusalem’s forgotten textual artifacts” dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the war of 1948. “Especially attracted to the little-noticed, half-erased texts: worn-out stone inscriptions, lettering on sewage covers, mysterious acronyms on gates and facades, faded ceramic street nameplates,” Wallach writes that “the texts of the city during this turbulent century registered the dramatic changes and violent ruptures in the modern history of the city: they were chronicles of construction and destruction, heritage preservation and modern development, occupation and displacement.” Dr. Wallach will be joined by respondents Basil Salem (Collegiate Assistant Professor, Dept. of History) and Andrew Katzenstein Atwell (PhD student, Dept. of Anthropology). and the discussion will be moderated by Orit Bashkin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. To register for this virtual event, go to https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdO6tqT0rEtFAb2e9nOU6oFIWVA0Cdelu. This event is part of the series Greenberg Book Conversations, sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. For more information, contact the administrator of the Greenberg Center, Nancy Pardee, at npardee@uchicago.edu.

Join Sonia Gollance in conversation with Naomi Seidman on Sonia’s new book It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2021). Sonia Gollance is Post-Doctoral Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Vienna and, as of September, Lecturer in Yiddish at University College London. Naomi Seidman is Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto and is the author most recently of Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement (Littman Library). Please register for this zoom session at https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkduuurDsvHNyEoBylU2azHb6wa0Y294UK… This event is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies and the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. For information, jkirzane@uchicago.edu.

Stephanie Kraver, PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The link for the zoom session and an advance copy of the paper will be available at the workshop website https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/. Papers and zoom links will also be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv. If you need further information or would like to be added to the workshop listserv, you can do so at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/subscribe/, or email the workshop coordinators, Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu or Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu.