The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies

Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
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Chicago, IL 60637
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Event Archive 2016 - Present

Premiere of 'Yivdak'- written and directed by Jonathan White

Description: 
For the poor weaver Yivdak, the faith he keeps within his heart struggles against his better judgment; however, this struggle is not due to a lack of belief but rather a lack of self-worth. How do we reconcile personal emotion and social tradition? Please join us for the debut of Yivdak, an original play written and directed by TAPS and JWSC major Jonathan White of the Class of 2022. Admission to both shows is free. Shows will take place on Saturday (4/30) and Sunday (5/1) at 6:30pm at the Reynolds Club FXK Theater. For more information, https://fb.me/e/2lRBcopm7.
Date: 
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Screening: Memoirs of a Tropical Jew/Mémoires d’un Juif tropical

Description: 
While enjoying a summer love affair in Paris in 1984, director Joseph Morder reflects on his unusual childhood in Ecuador, the haven to which his parents escaped from persecution by the Nazis in Poland during World War II. Because nothing remains of his childhood but memories, Morder substitutes images of Parisian streets and buildings that replace the streets and buildings of Guayaquil, and uses actors to stand in for the figures from his childhood recollections. The result is a film that blurs the lines between fiction and documentary, a film autobiography driven by emotion rather than history. (Joseph Morder, 1988, France, 80 min., 16mm print courtesy of Harvard Film Archive) Director Joseph Morder will be in conversation with Dominique Bluher. This event is cosponsored by the Film Studies Center and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
Date: 
Friday, April 29, 2022

Vendulka: A CEERES of Voices Conversation with Ondřej Kundra

Description: 
Ondrej Kundra is a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief for the journal Respekt and has won numerous journalism awards for political analysis and investigative reporting. While researching Vendulka Vogl, a young girl whose picture, taken by famed Czech photographer Jan Lukas, came to symbolize the Holocaust, Kundra discovered that Vogl had, in fact, survived the camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Christianstadt, and had come to live in the US. Kundra’s book, Vendulka: Flight to Freedom, recounts her story of survival. The photography exhibition begins at 5:30 p.m. with the lecture starting at 6 p.m. The interlocutor will be Bozena Shallcross, professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. This event is sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian-Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, International House, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. For information, please contact CEERES at ceeres@uchicago.edu or 773-702-0866. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact International House in advance of the program at 773-753-2274 or via email at I-house-programs@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Friday, April 29, 2022
Category: 
Exhibitions

Ruth HaCohen - “Working Through Disbelief: The Vocal Communities of Kol Nidre”

Description: 
Prof. Ruth HaCohen, Artur Rubenstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, will present a paper for a joint meeting of the Jewish Studies Workshop, the EthNoise Workshop, and the Sound & Society Workshop. This is an in-person event, location TBA. For information and the zoom link, please see the website at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/ or contact workshop coordinators, Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu and Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Category: 
Workshops

Bruce Rosenstock – “Kinship, Anti-Kinship, and a Tale of Two Names: A Thematic Nexus Joining Garden and Tower”

Description: 
Dr. Bruce Rosenstock, Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. This is an online event via Zoom. For information and the zoom link, please see the website at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/ or contact workshop coordinators, Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu and Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, April 18, 2022
Category: 
Workshops

Miriam Frenkel: 'Circles of Trade and Love; Commercial Networks in the Mediterranean Trade: Evidence from the Cairo Geniza'

Description: 
Prof. Miriam Frenkel is Professor at the Department of Jewish History and head of the Institute of History at the Hebrew University. She also heads the Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East and is Vice President of the Society for Judeo Arabic Studies. Prof. Frenkel’s main fields of research are Geniza studies, cultural and social history of Medieval Judaism in the lands of Islam, and medieval cultural encounters between Judaism and Islam. She recently authored `The Compassionate and Benevolent`; Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World`, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021.
Date: 
Monday, April 11, 2022
Category: 
Lectures

Joseph Cross – “Writing about Nineveh in Post–Iron Age Fiction: Cultural Memory or Incipient World Literature?”

Description: 
Joseph Cross, PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop. This is an online event via Zoom. For information and the zoom link, please contact workshop coordinators, Tyler Harris, tylerjharris@uchicago.edu, or Jaeseok Heo, jaeseokheo@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Category: 
Workshops

Elena Hoffenberg – “At Home in the Jerusalem of Lithuania? Culture and Class in the Close Quarters of Jewish Households of Interwar Vilne”

Description: 
Elena Hoffenberg, PhD student in the Department of History, University of Chicago, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The meeting will be virtual and the paper will be available on the workshop website https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/ (forthcoming). For the link to the Zoom meeting or other information, contact the workshop coordinators Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu and Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, March 7, 2022
Category: 
Workshops

Doren Snoek – “Solomon’s Accession in Chronicles as Counter-Memory”

Description: 
Doren Snoek, PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop. This is a hybrid event to be held at the Divinity School (Room 208) and via Zoom. For information and the zoom link, please contact workshop coordinators, Tyler Harris, tylerjharris@uchicago.edu, or Jaeseok Heo, jaeseokheo@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Category: 
Workshops

Colby Gordon, A Pound of Flesh: Transphobia and Antisemitism from Shakespeare to the Present

Description: 
Contemporary transphobic activism channels conspiratorial fantasies that understand the apparently sudden emergence of trans people as part of an obscure Jewish plot. This talk considers the historical roots of the convergence between transphobia and antisemitism through readings of two texts animated by the fear of a Judaizing and degendering cut, Oskar Panizza’s “The Operated Jew” and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Colby Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College. He has published broadly in the field of early modern trans studies, and is currently completing a manuscript entitled Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature. This is a hybrid event that will be held both in-person with limited capacity and remotely as a Zoom webinar. Registration is required for either option to attend. To register for the Zoom option, please visit https://bit.ly/GordonZoomReg. To register for the in-person option, please visit https://bit.ly/GordonInPersonReg Please contact tbrazas@uchicago.edu if you require any accommodations to enable your full participation. Part of the LGBTQ Speaker Series at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, and the Renaissance Workshop. This convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and, because of ongoing health risks to the unvaccinated, those who are unvaccinated are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures advised by public health officials (masking and social distancing, etc.). Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others, including venue staff, and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.
Date: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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