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Ilana Pardes is the Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Director of the Center for Literary Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.She taught at Princeton University in 1990- 1992 and was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in 1996 and 2006, and at Harvard in 2012. During the fall of 2009 she was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn and in fall of 2017 she was a fellow at the Humanities Council at Princeton University.

How are Holocaust survivors’ life stories informed by other narratives with which they are familiar?

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Dr. Seow’s latest book-length publication isJob 1-21, the first installment of a two-volume commentary. This book best represents the kind of scholarship he most enjoys and how he sees himself contributing to biblical scholarship. The emphasis therein on philology, the ancient Near Eastern, and theology will not come as a surprise to anyone who knows his work, particularly Ecclesiastes in the Anchor Bible (1997).

Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Demented of Jewish Eastern Europe

A talk by
Natan Meir

In this talk, Natan Meir presents an analysis of Jewish society in 19th– and early 20th-century eastern Europe based on the experiences of and attitudes towards beggars, vagrants, disabled people, and the mentally ill and offers a new lens through which to view Russian and Polish Jewry: the lives of the marginalized.

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Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

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Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

Harvest of Blossoms

A presentation by
Helene and Irene Silverblatt

Between Historiography and Literature: “Gershom Sholem’s Intellectual Biography”

A talk by Amir Engel

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Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

When: Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 5:30-8:00 p.m.

Where: Presentations in 3335 Dwinelle; Reception in 3401 Dwinelle

Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and the Boundaries of Modern Heresy

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The Afterlives of Baruch Spinoza and Shabbatai Zvi

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Rabbinizing Heresy: Korah in the Midrash

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This two-session conference explores theology in Benjamin and Kafka. The first session, moderated by Karen Feldman, includes paper presentations by Gilad Sharvit and Vivian Liska, with a response by Niklaus Largier. The second session is a conversation between Robert Alter and Chana Kronfeld.

2:30-4:30 pm: Session 1

Moderator: Karen Feldman

Gilad Sharvit, “Exile and Tradition: Benjamin and Scholem on Kafka ”

Vivian Liska, “Kafka, Narrative, and the Law”

Response: Niklaus Largier