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November 2022

Displaced Torah? Toward a Theory of Jews and the Constitution
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Displaced Torah? Toward a Theory of Jews and the Constitution
Featuring: Noah Feldman, Harvard University
Sabbatai Tzvi: Man, Messiah, and Living Myth
Monday, November 21, 2022
Sabbatai Tzvi: Man, Messiah, and Living Myth
Featuring: Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University
Legal Foundations of the Diasporic Jewish Nation
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Legal Foundations of the Diasporic Jewish Nation
Featuring: Julie Cooper, Tel Aviv University
Disputed Messiahs: David Reuveni, Solomon Molkho, and Their Jewish and Christian Audiences
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Disputed Messiahs: David Reuveni, Solomon Molkho, and Their Jewish and Christian Audiences
Featuring: Rebekka Voß, Goethe University
On the Tracks of Haim Guedalla: Debt, Default and State Making in the 19th Century
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
On the Tracks of Haim Guedalla: Debt, Default and State Making in the 19th Century
Featuring: Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania
Eldad Ha-Dani and the Return of the Ten Lost Tribes
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Eldad Ha-Dani and the Return of the Ten Lost Tribes
Featuring: Micha J. Perry, University of Haifa
Frankist Memory in the Brandeis Family and the American Law of Privacy
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Frankist Memory in the Brandeis Family and the American Law of Privacy
Featuring: Nan Goodman, University of Colorado
From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Fundraising and Jewish Refugee Relief in the Seventeenth Century
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Fundraising and Jewish Refugee Relief in the Seventeenth Century
Featuring: Adam Teller, Brown University
Jewish Messianism in the Time of Early Christianity
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Jewish Messianism in the Time of Early Christianity
Featuring: Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh

October 2022

An Incomplete Liberalism? Reading Brandeis after Charlottesville
Thursday, October 27, 2022
An Incomplete Liberalism? Reading Brandeis after Charlottesville
Featuring: James Loeffler, University of Virginia
The Laws of Tsni'ut as a Translation of Legal Knowledge
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
The Laws of Tsni'ut as a Translation of Legal Knowledge
Featuring: Emmanuel Bloch, University of California Berkeley School of Law
International Law for a Multinational State: Eugen Ehrlich and Habsburg Theories of Legal Pluralism
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
International Law for a Multinational State: Eugen Ehrlich and Habsburg Theories of Legal Pluralism
Featuring: Thomas Prendergast, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

September 2022

Orthodox Jews and Public Health Conflicts
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Orthodox Jews and Public Health Conflicts
Featuring: Ayala Fader, Fordham University
Faith-Based Discrimination and the Antisemitism Question
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Faith-Based Discrimination and the Antisemitism Question
Featuring: Nomi Stolzenberg, University of Southern California