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April 2014

Do Jews Believe in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and His Early Modern Afterlife
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Do Jews Believe in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and His Early Modern Afterlife
Featuring: Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Germany

March 2014

Little Redhead Jews Crossing the Sambatyon River: A Shared Myth in Jewish and Christian Folklore
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Little Redhead Jews Crossing the Sambatyon River: A Shared Myth in Jewish and Christian Folklore
Featuring: Rebekka Voß, Goethe University
The Study of Science and Kabbalah in the Venetian Ghetto during the Renaissance
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The Study of Science and Kabbalah in the Venetian Ghetto during the Renaissance
Featuring: Fabrizio Lelli, Università del Salento (Lecce)
People of the Book? Books and Libraries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Society
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
People of the Book? Books and Libraries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Society
Featuring: Joseph R. Hacker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

February 2014

Popular Culture and Daily Life among the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Popular Culture and Daily Life among the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire
Featuring: Matt Goldish, Ohio State University
It's Good to See the King: Visual Kabbalah and the Diagramming of the Divine
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
It's Good to See the King: Visual Kabbalah and the Diagramming of the Divine
Featuring: J. H. (Yossi) Chajes, University of Haifa
A Jew and a Christian Walk into a Cafe: Jewish Life in a Mediterranean Port
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
A Jew and a Christian Walk into a Cafe: Jewish Life in a Mediterranean Port
Featuring: Francesca Bregoli, Queens College, CUNY
Cristobal Mendes, alias Abraham Franco Silveira: The Puzzling Saga of a Seventeenth-Century Converso
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Cristobal Mendes, alias Abraham Franco Silveira: The Puzzling Saga of a Seventeenth-Century Converso
Featuring: Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Artistic Depictions of Jews in Early Modern Europe
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Artistic Depictions of Jews in Early Modern Europe
Featuring: Richard I. Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

September 2013

On the Reading Habits of Count Joseph Karl Emmanuel von Waldstein and Some Related Matters
Monday, September 16, 2013
On the Reading Habits of Count Joseph Karl Emmanuel von Waldstein and Some Related Matters
Featuring: Pawel Maciejko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

April 2013

Patterns of Relations: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Thirteenth-Century
April 29 - 30, 2013
Patterns of Relations: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Thirteenth-Century
Jews, Friars, and Beguines: Narrating the History of Thirteenth-Century Europe
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Jews, Friars, and Beguines: Narrating the History of Thirteenth-Century Europe

April 2012

Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity
April 29, 2012 - May 1, 2012
Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity
“Jetzt judenfrei (Now Free of Jews)”: Being a Tourist in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
“Jetzt judenfrei (Now Free of Jews)”: Being a Tourist in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Featuring: Jane Caplan

May 2011

Taking Turns: New Perspectives on Jews and Conversion
May 2 - 3, 2011
Taking Turns: New Perspectives on Jews and Conversion