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March 2021

Microhistory and Global History
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Microhistory and Global History
Featuring: Carlo Ginzburg; Francesca Trivellato
Jewish American Women Poets as Translators, Liturgists, and Anthologists
Monday, March 1, 2021
Jewish American Women Poets as Translators, Liturgists, and Anthologists
Featuring: Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania

February 2021

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
Featuring: Marc Dollinger
From the Siddur to the Anthology: Schocken Books and the Cultural Translation of Religious Texts for Postwar American Jews
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
From the Siddur to the Anthology: Schocken Books and the Cultural Translation of Religious Texts for Postwar American Jews
Featuring: Markus Krah, University of Potsdam
Persecuted Christians? Understanding Evangelical Support for Trump
Monday, February 22, 2021
Persecuted Christians? Understanding Evangelical Support for Trump
Featuring: Michele Margolis
Religion and White Supremacy in the United States
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Religion and White Supremacy in the United States
Featuring: Sophie Bjork-James
Jews and Public Housing in 1930s New York
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Jews and Public Housing in 1930s New York
Featuring: Michael Casper, New York Public Library
Jews and the Religion of Whiteness
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Jews and the Religion of Whiteness
Featuring: J. Kameron Carter
Teachable Moments, or How the Irish Taught the Jews to Become American
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Teachable Moments, or How the Irish Taught the Jews to Become American
Featuring: Hasia R. Diner, New York University
American Jewish Musical Encounters
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
American Jewish Musical Encounters
Featuring: Josh Kun; Galeet Dardashti; Shaul Magid; Anthony Russell
'I See Your Eagles in the Beaks of Ravens': Reading Judah Halevi in the Harlem Renaissance
Monday, February 8, 2021
'I See Your Eagles in the Beaks of Ravens': Reading Judah Halevi in the Harlem Renaissance
Featuring: S. J. Pearce, New York University
Zakhor: Alex Haley’s Roots, Scriptures, and the Race for America
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Zakhor: Alex Haley’s Roots, Scriptures, and the Race for America
Featuring: Richard Newton
Revisiting 'An Episode in Wartime Censorship'
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Revisiting 'An Episode in Wartime Censorship'
Featuring: Ayelet Brinn, Fordham University
A Question of Size: Exercises and Spectacles of Smallness among American Jewry
Monday, February 1, 2021
A Question of Size: Exercises and Spectacles of Smallness among American Jewry
Featuring: Michal Kravel-Tovi, Tel Aviv University

January 2021

Is the Talmud Racist?
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Is the Talmud Racist?
Featuring: Mira Beth Wasserman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; Steven Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania