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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
For the Public

Incantation: The Embodied Aleph-Bet >

Featuring: Simcha Gross, University of Pennsylvania; Victoria Hanna; Tom Kraines, University of Pennsylvania

Vocal artist Victoria Hanna explores the Hebrew alphabet magic of artifacts at the Penn Museum

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Thursday, April 11, 2024
For the Public

Cold War and Cultural Restitution: Postwar Transfers of Jewish Libraries from the Soviet Bloc to Israel >

Featuring: Anna Holzer-Kawalko, The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem

A look at efforts to move Hebrew books orphaned in the Holocaust to Jerusalem

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Sunday, April 14, 2024
For the Public

The Music of Resilience: Songs of Jewish Survival East and West >

Featuring: Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto; Galeet Dardashti, New York University; Shanir Blumenkranz; Dmitry Kemell; Philip Mayer; Pavel Lion; Zafer Tawil; Max ZT

The Katz Center marks its thirtieth year with a concert and reception.

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Thursday, November 16, 2023
For the Public

Piyyut Rising National Premiere >

Live concert showcasing Mizrahi Jewish poetry and song

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
For the Public

Rescue or Ransack? Unraveling the Complexities of the Cairo Geniza Chain of Custody >

Featuring: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson, University of Florida

A new look at how materials were transferred out of this storied repository and where they went

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Thursday, January 11, 2024
For the Public

Mini-Course: Israeli Music Goes Mizrahi >

Featuring: Galeet Dardashti, New York University

In this three-part seminar, learn how the European tastes of Israel’s founders have gradually given way to Eastern musical fare.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
For the Public

Disproportional Representation and the Myth of the Shyster >

Featuring: Britt Tevis

The history of stereotypes about Jewish lawyers.

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Thursday, May 4, 2023
For the Public

Halakhah in the Modern World: How Jewish Law Was Rethought and Reworked in Modernity >

Featuring: Yonatan Y. Brafman, Tufts University

Dive into modern halakhah over three weeks in a small group.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
For the Public

Evidence for Judean Exiles in Babylonia, 572–474 BCE >

Featuring: Laurie Pearce, University of California, Berkeley

How exiled Jews lived in the Babylonian countryside.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
For the Public

The Aramaic Incantation Bowls: Jewish Society and Culture at a Crossroads >

Featuring: Simcha Gross, University of Pennsylvania

What do bowls have to do with the rabbis of the Talmud?

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