Seth Anziska, University College London, Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth
Monday, August 13, 2018, @ 4:30 pm
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Yet the Palestinians—the would-be beneficiaries of a vision for a comprehensive regional settlement that led to the Camp...
[more]Public Talk: Merchant Today
Mon, June 25, 5 pm, Top of the Hop, Free
Professors Susannah Heschel and Patricia McKee offer a primer on the Bard’s great dramedy and its relevance today.
Shakespeare Under the Stars
Internationally acclaimed new production, performed...
The Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth is delighted to announce that Professor Edwin Seroussi of the Hebrew University and an annual visiting faculty member at Dartmouth College, has been awarded the Israel Prize for his extraordinary scholarship in the field of Musicology. As a frequent Visiting Professor and lecturer at Dartmouth in the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of Music, we are thrilled for this award, the highest honor for a scholar that is given by the State of Israel....
[more]In the Land of Nunca Más (Never Again): Genocide, Human Rights, and the Jewish Imaginary in Argentina
Natasha Zaretsky, PhD, New York University Thursday, May 17, 2018
4:30 pm
Rockefeller 003
Natasha Zaretsky is a Senior Lecturer at NYU and a Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University. She is the editor of Landscapes of Memory and Impunity: The Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing in Jewish Argentina and has...
[more]Brigitte Caland, American University of Beirut in conversation with Chad Elias, (Art History) and Tarek El Ariss (Middle Eastern Studies)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
4:30pm-5:30pm
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
S.Y. Agnon is the 1968 Nobel Literature laureate. Despite his constant denial, Agnon used psychoanalytical material as an integral part of his stories. In order to better understand the process, the lecture will compare the three versions of a story he...
[more]Europes Jews Between Shoa, Re-Formation and New Perils
A lecture discussing the new dynamics in “Jewish” Germany within the past 25 years, an aspect which, as is seems, is often ignored in science and public.
Professor Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam University Germany
He is a German historian and political scientist, Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies at Potsdam University and chairman of the Moses Mendelssohn Foundation.
... [more]Please join me in congratulating several members of the Jewish Studies faculty on the publication of new books.
Barbara Kreiger, The Dead Sea and the Jordan River (Indiana University Press)
Ehud Benor, Ethical Monotheism (Routledge)
Veronika Fuechtner and Douglas Haynes, eds., A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 (University of California Press)
Irene Kacandes and Yuliya Komska, eds., Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries (Berghahn...
[more]A new book is shedding light on a handful of US government officials who helped rescue Jewish refugees in the final months of World War II and the Holocaust.
Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America's Response to the Holocaust is the...
[more]Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Rockefeller 001
5:00 pm
Francois Guesnet, Visiting Brownstone Professor in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, University College, London
Title: Hair: Transcultural Entanglements of Place, Race, and Identity in Central Europe
Hair is among the most obvious elements of a person’s appearance. Beyond a marker of individual esthetic and cultural choices, its appearance is marked by beliefs, customs and rituals. Religious traditions offer...
[more]***Please note there are DVDs of the lecture for viewing at the Jones Media Center. ***
Monday, August 14, 2017, 4:30 pm
Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall
George Yancy, Philisophy Department, Emory University
Description: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel argues that the prophetic voice is a scream in the night. I take this to imply that the prophetic voice forces us to listen, to...
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