Past Events
March 21st: Trans Area Literature Collective presents an illuminating talk by Michael Allan
Vanderbilt Jewish Studies Department presents a Creative Writing Series with Moriel Rothman-Zecher
POETRY SLAM ~ Feb 23rd, 2023
“Coming with That Old Hebrew”: Alternative Hip Hop in Israel, a Conversation with Ron Asael November 16th, 10:10 AM, Wilson Hall 122 (*the artist will join us on Zoom)
“Jewish Veganism at a Turning Point: Internal Conversations and Broader Contributions” a talk by Dr. Jacob A. Labendz
Laura Leibman, “Beyond Binaries: Jewish Suriname through the Photographer’s Lens”, January 18th, 12 Noon
11/8 – Ukrainian Poetry Lecture with Amelia Glaser
10/21 – Lunch Talk with Devi Mays
9/19 – Unstick your Syllabi with Megan Goodwin
9/12 – Jewish Studies Lecture Series Presents Prof Kenneth B. Moss
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
Books and Babies: Reproductive Literacy among Haredi Women
Discussion with Jessica Kirzane
Between World Literature and Global Modernism: Literary Rewritings on the Global Stage
Poetry Slam!
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
Judeo-Spanish Workshops this Past Fall!
Join Professor Mazalit Haim for discussions on Israeli Culture and the unique history of the Hebrew language
“That Obnoxious Order” – Lunch Talk with Professor Jonathan Sarna
Seeing as Believing: A Lunch Talk with Dr. Jeffrey Shandler
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 presents “That Obnoxious Order: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Jeffrey Shandler presents “Seeing As Believing: Watching Videotaped Interviews with Holocaust Survivors.”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Chana Kronfeld presents “The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Miriam Frenkel presents “India in Medieval Jewish History and Imagination”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: “Art is My Weapon”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Michelle Campos presents “Rethinking Jewish-Arab Relations in Palestine and Israel: Lessons from the Archives and the Streets”
Watch and Learn: Amy-Jill Levine, “What’s Jesus Got to Do With It”
Watch and Learn: Antisemitism in Contemporary American Politics
Steven Zipperstein at the JCC Jewish Book Series
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Barry Trachtenberg presents “The United States and the Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance”
Lecture: Jean Silk presents “Community Resettlement of Refugees”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series – Steven Zipperstein presents “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History”
Library Open House for Jewish Studies
Lecture: Till van Rahden presents “When, How, and Why Did Jews Become a “Minority”?
Lecture: Susan Bernofsky presents “Overseas Conversations: On Translating Jenny Erpenbeck”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series – Michael A. Meyer presents “Jewish Scholarship and Religious Commitment: The Example of Rabbi Leo Baeck”
Vanderbilt to Host Antisemitism Roundtable
Watch and Learn: Phil Lieberman presents “Augmenting Genizah Studies with Archaeological Research”
Phil Lieberman Moderates Nashville Jewish Book Series: David G. Dalin & Jewish Justices
Lisa Silverman presents “Absent Jews and Invisible Antisemitism in Postwar Vienna: ‘Der Prozess’ (1948) and ‘The Third Man’ (1949)”
Shaul Kelner on Panel “Remembering the Refusenicks: Helping Jews Behind the Iron Curtain”
Sandrine Sanos presents “Post-Holocaust Visions of War and Decolonization in France, 1958-1963”
Alexander Knysh presents “A Clash of Islams: Sufism and Salafism in the Caucasus”
Eric Kurlander presents “The Third Reich as Supernatural Project: The Role of Folklore, Occultism, and Border Science in Nazi Empire-Building”
Natalie Zemon Davis presents “Languages of the People: A Romanian-Jewish Philologist on Yiddish, Romanian and French”
Yiddish Glory – “Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II”
David Shneer presents “Making Grief: How a Soviet Photographer Made a Photograph of Holocaust Liberation into an Icon of War’s Human Tragedy”
An Evening with Amitav Ghosh, author of The Ibis Trilogy and The Great Derangement
Ronnie Perelis presents “Families of Blood and Faith: Religion, Race and Community in the Sephardic Atlantic”
Listen and Learn: Robert Barksy on WBUR Podcast, “The Chomsky Effect”
Shaul Kelner at Conference on Mobility and Leisure Travel in the Cold War
Shaul Kelner at Fairfield University: “How American Jews Mobilized to Free Soviet Jewry: Lessons for Activism Today”
Julia Phillips Cohen at UCLA: “A Model Minority? Sephardi Jews in the Late Ottoman Empire”
Listen and Learn: David Wasserstein on Authorial Intentions Podcast, “Black Banners of Isis”
Sylvia Barack Fishman presents “Circles of Jewish Life: Changing Family Formation and Jewish Connectedness among America’s Younger Jews”
Hebrew Table is back!
Nashville Jewish Film Festival
Paul Reitter presents “Solomon Maimon’s Multinationalism in Translation”
Lonneke Geerlings presents “The Travels of Rosey E. Pool Through the Deep South, 1959-60”
Jewish Political Legitimacy in the Islamic Middle Ages: From Spain to Iraq
Leah Lax presents Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Listen and Learn: Shaul Kelner presents “The Soviet Jewry Movement”
University of Michigan, Judaic Studies 2015-16 Frankel Institute Secularization/Sacralization Fellow, Shaul Kelner Project Title: Strategic Sacralization in American Jewish Politics: The Contradictions of Cultural Mobilization in the American Soviet Jewry Movement Click here to listen to the Frankly Judaic podcast.
Watch and Learn: Shaul Kelner presents “The Timeless and the Timely”
Lunch Talk – How the Other Half Looks: Remediating the Lower East Side
Little Failure: A Reading and Conversation with Gary Shteyngart
Robert Alter: The Challenge of Translating the Bible
Clarice Lispector Translated
But is it art? Jews, photography, and photojournalism in Britain, 1860-2016 – Presented by Michael Berkowitz
SJAS Conference to be held at Vanderbilt University
Leo Spitzer to speak on his immigration to the US from Bolivia
Dr. Adam Gregerman to Speak
Sayed Kashua to present "The Foreign Mother Tongue"
Nashville Reads at Vanderbilt University
Blogcast: Shaul Kelner on Jewish Travel Education
Cary Nelson from The University of Illinois to speak at Vanderbilt
Professor Julia Cohen to present at the 3rd annual International Ladino Day celebration at the University of Washington
SUNY’s Sara Lipton presents: "What's in a Nose? On the Origins, Evolution, and Implications of the Anti-Semitic Caricature”
Shaul Kelner in West Bloomfield, Michigan
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Presented by Holocaust Lecture Series
Holocaust Lecture Series Sponsors Screening of Ida
Lecture by Inge Auerbacher, Child Survivor of the Holocaus
Genocide and Sexual Violence, A Panel Discussion
Zimmerman Judaica Collection Exhibit Opens
Shaul Kelner at NYU
Listen and Learn: Lenn Goodman on "Judaism, Humanity, and Nature"
Condemning Hate, Reaffirming VU's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Watch and Learn: Phil Lieberman presents “Jewish Onomastics, Cairo Geniza and Westward Migration in the Medieval Period”
Lenn Goodman Book Celebration
Two Lectures on Holocaust Memory with Michael Bernard-Donals
Orit Yeret Presents Modern Hebrew at Vanderbilt
UCLA's Tutino Speaks on Catholic-Jewish Relations in 17th C. Rome
DRINK. PREY. LUST. Sexual Violence & the Book of Esther. Teach-in.
UCLA's Todd Presner visits Vanderbilt
Indiana Univ.'s Mark Roseman Speaks on Holocaust Rescue
Schoenberg’s "A Survivor from Warsaw," Performance and Lecture
Brunch and Learn with Julia Phillips Cohen
Brandeis U's ChaeRan Freeze visits Vanderbilt
Goodman & Geller on Lemkin & Genocide
Listen and Learn: A-J Levine on Jesus's Jewish Roots (NPR's On Point)
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik at Parnassus Books
AJS Annual Conference
Shaul Kelner, Julia Cohen, Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, and other faculty and graduate students from Vanderbilt’s Jewish Studies program will speak at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland at the Hilton Baltimore. Speakers: Prof. Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman The…