Susannah Heschel and Shaul Magid contributed reviews about the book, Hasidism: A New History. The reviews are available in Marginalia LA Review of Books.
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"Passover gives us an opportunity to express our deepest fears and yearnings in a concrete way," says the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies in a "Valley News" story about celebrating Passover during the time of the coronavirus.
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Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6:30 – 8 pm, Scheuer Auditorium, Susannah Heschel, will examine Jewish understandings of diaspora versus exile and the internalization of exile as an existential experience.
[more]Jewish Studies lecturer Deborah Forger was interviewed by The Dartmouth recently in an article about the "Jewishness of Jesus" and "What did Jesus actually look like".
[more]The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted unanimously yesterday to grant the Jewish Studies Program permanent status. This is a wonderful achievement and we should be celebrating and thanking one another for all of our hard work over the years.
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