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December 2022

Ottoman Legal Reforms and Jewish Self-Determination in the Ottoman State, 1839–1880
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Ottoman Legal Reforms and Jewish Self-Determination in the Ottoman State, 1839–1880
Featuring: Tamir Karkason, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
A Fateful Settlement: How the Issue of Theocracy Was Avoided in Kiryas Joel
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
A Fateful Settlement: How the Issue of Theocracy Was Avoided in Kiryas Joel
Featuring: Nomi Stolzenberg, University of Southern California
The New American Halakhah: The Praxis of the Contemporary American Beth Din
Monday, December 5, 2022
The New American Halakhah: The Praxis of the Contemporary American Beth Din
Featuring: Chaim Saiman, Villanova University School of Law

November 2022

A Jewish Indictment for Nuremberg: The New York Black Book of 1946
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
A Jewish Indictment for Nuremberg: The New York Black Book of 1946
Featuring: Elisabeth Gallas, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow
The Patrons and their Poor: Jewish Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
The Patrons and their Poor: Jewish Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Featuring: Debra Kaplan, Bar-Ilan University
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