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Join us for a lecture, discussion, and exhibit in celebration of Naomi Seidman's new book: Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish.

Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Popular Jewish Press

This talk investigates how antisemitism has festered and flourished in global digital media. The public sphere of social media has globalized and changed “traditional” antisemitism, offering a new digital antisemitism. This talk center the phenomenon of the “Jew Goal”, an ignominious but broadly employed e-sports neologism that antisemitically labels an easy goal as “Jewish.” Jewish involvement in sports in the twentieth century has been trumpeted as a successful story of Jewish emancipation and gradual inclusion.

Identifying the Holocaust with other historical experiences has given rise to a series of debates in the public sphere in recent decades. In Argentina the Holocaust has been a sensitive topic from the 1940s to the present. In this talk, Emmanuel Kahan proposes a history of Holocaust memory and its "uses" in Argentina, focusing on four key moments. One, the time period contemporaneous to the extermination of the Jews of Europe. Two, the 1960s and polemics in Argentina about antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East.

2024 Annual Feldman Lecture

2024 Annual Diller Lecture

For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine between 1933 and 1940, migration meant radical changes: it transformed their professional and cultural lives and confronted them with a new language, climate, and society. In her talk, Viola Alianov-Rautenberg will tell the story of German-Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine/Eretz Israel as gender history.

This talk will offer an overview of Judaken’s recently published book, Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism. In it, he offers a philosophical reflection on crucial problems in how we think about anti-Semitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists. Judaken explores methodological and conceptual issues that have vexed the study of Judeophobia and calls for a reconsideration of the definitions, categories, and narratives that underpin overarching explanations.

In person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

In Victoria Hannah at In Plain Sight: Sounds Create Worlds, Victoria Hanna will engage with Jewish language, liturgy, and symbols through voice, sound, and visuals. This performance draws on themes from the new Magnes exhibition, In Plain Sight: Jewish Arts and Lives in the Muslim World.

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Join us for a conversation between author Liron Mor (Comparative Literature, UC Irvine), Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed (Comparative Literature), and Roni Masel (Comparative Literature) about Mor's new book, Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel (Fordham University Press, 2024). This book queries what conflict means in the context of Palestine–Israel. Conflict has long been seen as singular and primary: as an “original sin” that necessitates the state and underwrites politics.

After a resounding defeat, France officially left the war and a new government, retaining some sovereignty over part of the country and settled in the city of Vichy put an end to the Republican regime and collaborated with the Nazi occupiers. As a result, the Jews were faced with a double persecution, led by the German occupier as well as by the Vichy regime.