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September 2019

Rooms with a View: Exploring the Jewish Home
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Rooms with a View: Exploring the Jewish Home
Featuring: Leora Auslander, University of Chicago; Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania; Jenna Weissman Joselit
Visiting Scholars Reception
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Visiting Scholars Reception
Director’s Welcome Brunch
September 15, 2019 - July 15, 2019
Director’s Welcome Brunch
Library Orientation and Tour of Rare Book Room
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Library Orientation and Tour of Rare Book Room
Opening Discussion
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Opening Discussion
Changing Minds: Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Changing Minds: Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar
Featuring: Fabrizio Lelli, Università del Salento (Lecce)
Orientation and Lunch
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Orientation and Lunch

May 2019

Order, Reorder, and Disorder: Jews and Muslims Encountering the Modern Era
May 5 - 6, 2019
Order, Reorder, and Disorder: Jews and Muslims Encountering the Modern Era

April 2019

Hebrew Prose by Late-Ottoman Rabbis from Eretz Yisrael
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Hebrew Prose by Late-Ottoman Rabbis from Eretz Yisrael
Featuring: Keren Dotan, Open University of Israel
"The Hebrew Tongue That Prevails in Our Times": Jewish Moroccan Language and Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
"The Hebrew Tongue That Prevails in Our Times": Jewish Moroccan Language and Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Featuring: Yigal S. Nizri, University of Toronto
The Way It Mattered: Jewishness as Social Identity in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
The Way It Mattered: Jewishness as Social Identity in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Featuring: Alon Tam, University of Pennsylvania
The Jews of Islamic Lands
Monday, April 1, 2019
The Jews of Islamic Lands
Featuring: Alan Verskin

March 2019

Too Good to Passover
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Too Good to Passover
Featuring: Jennifer Abadi
An Alienated History: The Demise of Arab-Jewish Culture between History and Literature
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
An Alienated History: The Demise of Arab-Jewish Culture between History and Literature
Featuring: Reuven Snir, University of Haifa
"Dhimma Space" and Beyond: Conceptualizing the Relationships between Jews and Muslims
Monday, March 25, 2019
"Dhimma Space" and Beyond: Conceptualizing the Relationships between Jews and Muslims
Featuring: Kerstin Hünefeld, Free University of Berlin