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In the first decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Sephardi Jews migrated out of the crumbling Ottoman Empire and its successor states to build new lives in France.

The Hebrew imagination, incubated in ancient Zion, travelled with the Jews throughout their diasporas, generating rich mimetic cultures meant as temporary waystations along the path to eventual return and redemption.

Joshua Teplitsky, Stony Brook University.

Menachem Keren-Kratz.

Mark Oppenheimer, Yale University.

On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill–the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one.

Liora R. Halperin, University of Washington.

Eric K. Ward (Western States Center) in conversation with Michael Rothberg (UCLA).

Pell Lecture

Michael Brenner, American University and University of Munich.

Arun Viswanath in conversation with Robert Alter (UC Berkeley).

Dina Danon (SUNY-Binghamton University) in conversation with Karen Barkey (UC Berkeley).

Anne Goldman (Sonoma State University)

Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture
Ruth Tsoffar (author) in a conversation with Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman

Nurit Stadler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in conversation with Ron Hassner (UC Berkeley)

Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in conversation with Robert Alter (UC Berkeley), Ron Hendel (UC Berkeley), Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley)

The Song of Songs: A Biography

Yavilah McCoy is the CEO of DIMENSIONS Inc. in Boston. She has spent the past 20 years working extensively in multi-faith communities and partnering specifically with the Jewish community to engage issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. Yavilah is an educator, activist and spiritual teacher.

Author Max Czollek’s essay collection Desintegriert Euch! transformed the debate about the integration of minorities in Germany when it appeared in 2018.

Due to the Coronavirus situation and recent campus directives, The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley (ISEEES) has decided to cancel Professor Subotić’s trip to UC Berkeley.   They plan to reschedule her lecture in the Fall. 

Jelena Subotić (Georgia State University)

Event cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in conversation with

Robert Alter (UC Berkeley), Ron Hendel (UC Berkeley), Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley)

The Song of Songs: A Biography

Tapestry of Tongues:
The Multilingual Matrix of Modern Hebrew Literature

Screening of “Amos Oz”
Selected scenes from a work-in-progress
In “Ha’Ivrim,” a documentary film series (https://ivrim.co.il)

Followed by:
Conversation with Filmmaker Yair Qedar and UC Berkeley Professors Robert Atler and Chana Kronfeld

Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses.