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Melting Pots Compared? Italian Jewry and Contemporary Israel | Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

December 14, 2016
Contemporary Israel’s model of large-scale heterogeneous Jewish migration followed by complex processes of absorption and integration is not unique in Jewish history. To some extent the long-term experience of Jewish communities in Italy anticipated it and provided some yardsticks for comparisons. Of course the quantitative scale of migrations and population size was different, and while Jews in Italy were a tiny minority of total society, Jews in Israel formed a significant majority of the total population. However, both cases exemplify a confluence of people from many strands, the conflicts...

Book Talk | Walter Zev Feldman. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

December 1, 2016

Join musicologist and klezmer music pioneer, Walter Zev Feldman, for a fascinating talk based on his new book, Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

This program was made possible in partnership with the following institutions: The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (Oxford University Press 2016) is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians’ guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in...

Graduate Student Workshop “Jews, Germans, and other Europeans: Modern Encounters”

December 14, 2016

Graduate Student Workshop “Jews, Germans, and other Europeans: Modern Encounters” is jointly organized by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Institute for German and European Studies at UC Berkeley and Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. It is co-sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the UC Berkeley Department of History.

Organizer Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

Benjamin, Kafka, and Theology

January 24, 2017

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

4.30-5...

Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story

March 2, 2017

An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story

What do we mean by home? In Drawn From Water, Jewish American writer Dina Elenbogen explores her thirty-year friendship with Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel as they struggle in a new country while dealing with her own desire to join them there....

On Jewish Heresy Lecture 2

March 15, 2017

On Jewish Heresy Lecture 3

The Afterlives of Baruch Spinoza and Shabbatai Zvi

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On Jewish Heresy Lecture 1

March 13, 2017

On Jewish Heresy Lecture 3

Rabbinizing Heresy: Korah in the Midrash

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Graduate Student Colloquium

March 21, 2017

Graduate Student Colloquium

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

Where: Presentations in 3335 Dwinelle; Reception in 3401 Dwinelle

The program: Raphael Magarik will give a talk entitled, “Milton’s Multiple Creation Narratives and the History of Biblical...

On Jewish Heresy Lecture 3

March 16, 2017

On Jewish Heresy Lecture 3

Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and the Boundaries of Modern Heresy

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Harvest of Blossoms-CANCELED

April 27, 2017

Harvest of Blossoms-CANCELED

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was only eighteen when she died in a labor camp in Ukraine. In the course of a life cut short, Selma wrote over fifty poems in German. She recorded them in an album meant for her love, Leiser Fichman, who had already been deported to a Romanian labor camp. Selma was...