Events
2020 Contest Winners: “The Best Undergraduate Paper in Jewish Studies” and “The Miriam Halachmi Prize for Excellence in Modern Hebrew”
The Best Undergraduate Paper in Jewish Studies 1st place: Jake Nicastro, “The Changing Southern Jewish Lifestyle in Virginia” (submission from JS 2230W, “American Jews in Southern Life and Literature,” taught by Adam S. Meyer) Honorable mention: Carly Stewart, “Anzia Yezireska and the Hollywood Ending”…
4/13 “Jewish and Israeli Poetry in Time of Crisis” with Mazalit Haim, Assistant Professor Jewish Studies
We had a great turn out at our poetry workshop with Prof. Mazalit Haim and poet Linda Ravenswood. It was well attended by students, faculty and community members who have written some great poems concerning our unique present moment.
2/20 The Netflixization of Israeli and Middle Eastern Cultures – Israel, The Arab World and the Globalization of TV
The Netflixization of Israeli and Middle Eastern Cultures: Israel, the Arab World and the Globalization of Television Have you ever wanted to know more about the Netflix obsession with Israeli secret service, Mossad, as portrayed in current Netflix acclaimed shows like…
Seeing as Believing: A Lunch Talk with Dr. Jeffrey Shandler
***Please note that this event will be held in Alumni Hall 202 on Vanderbilt’s main campus, not Memorial Hall on Peabody Campus. The Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Shandler of Rutgers University for his talk “Seeing…
Speaking Hebrew Freely: Conversation Outside the Classroom with Professor Haim
Jewish Studies Cosponsored Event: A Short History of Anger – the Destruction of Smyrna
Jewish Studies sponsors “Sefarad” as part of the Nashville Jewish Film Festival
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Jonathan Sarna, “That Obnoxious Order: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Jeffrey Shandler, “Seeing As Believing: Watching Videotaped Interviews with Holocaust Survivors.”
JS Lecture Series: Chana Kronfeld, “The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry”
JS Lecture Series: Miriam Frenkel, “India in Medieval Jewish History and Imagination”
JS Lecture Series: Art is My Weapon
JS Lecture Series: Michelle Campos, “Rethinking Jewish-Arab Relations in Palestine and Israel: Lessons from the Archives and the Streets”
Steven Zipperstein at the JCC Jewish Book Series
JS Lecture Series: Barry Trachtenberg, “The United States and the Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance”
Lecture: Jean Silk, “Community Resettlement of Refugees”
JS Lecture Series – Steven Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History”
The Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome Steven Zipperstein from Stanford University speaking on “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History,” also the title of his new book. The event will take place on Thursday, October 11 at…