Events
Book Release Event: Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939
Book Release Event: WOMEN WRITING JEWISH MODERNITY, 1919-1939 Allison Schachter in conversation with Chana Kronfeld (University of California, Berkeley), Zohar Weiman-Kelman (Ben-Gurion University), and Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University) Hosted by the Max Kade Center for European Studies May 10, 2022…
Plunder: Family Property and Nazi Treasure
Plunder: Family Property and Nazi Treasure A public talk by memoirist Menachem Kaiser “Plunder recounts Kaiser’s journey to Poland, as he tries to reclaim his grandfather’s apartment building stolen by the Nazis, and ends up entangled with treasure hunters in…
Books and Babies: Reproductive Literacy among Haredi Women
Books and Babies: Reproductive Literacy among Haredi Women Michal Raucher hosted by the Jewish Studies Department “In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions…
Discussion with Jessica Kirzane
Jessica Kirzane hosted by Allison Schachter Join us for a discussion of the translation of Miriam Karpilove’s novel “Diary of a Lonely Girl” February 1, 2022
Between World Literature and Global Modernism: Literary Rewritings on the Global Stage
Between World Literature and Global Modernism: Literary Rewritings on the Global Stage An event with Lital Levy (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University) Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Department January 24, 2022
Poetry Slam!
The Center for Second Language Studies and the Jewish Studies Department are excited to invite you to this event series! Celebrate the end of the semester with poetry workshops and a slam! This initiative from the Jewish Studies Department and…
Amy-Jill Levine leads talk for Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies
“This Hebrew is Heavy With Impending Catastrophe”: Teaching Hebrew in American Colleges with Mazalit Haim
“The Diaphragm Debates: Protestants, Jews, Catholics, and A Changing Culture of Contraception” with Professor Samira Mehta
Virtual talk by Amy-Jill Levine at Parnassus Books
“Jewish and Israeli Poetry in Time of Crisis” with Mazalit Haim
The Netflixization of Israeli and Middle Eastern Cultures
Workshop with Prof. Adam Meyer: Storytelling as Community-Bridging – Martin Luther King Jr. and the Book of Exodus
As a part of Vanderbilt’s MLK Day commemoration on January 20, Professor Meyer will be hosting a teach-in session from 3:30-4:45pm in Sarratt 325/327. We hope to see you there! Find more info here. Presenter: Adam Meyer, associate professor…