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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...

Reclaiming the Self in Jewish American Culture

March 23, 2017

Reclaiming the Self in Jewish American Culture

More than any other generation, Post World War II Jewish American authors were continually engaged in challenging
their own tradition and defied any attempt to characterize their texts as distinctly “Jewish”. This talk will portray a new style of writing in literature that redefined a new...

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...

John Efron’s “Appearance Counts: Sephardic Jewry and the Creation of a German-Jewish Aesthetic”

September 14, 2017

Sephardic Jewry and the Creation of a German-Jewish Aesthetic”

Focusing on the period spanning the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, this talk explores the special place German-Jewish culture accorded medieval Spanish Jewry. In a broad array of cultural forms and genres, a portrait emerged that promoted an image...

Helene & Irene Silverblatt–Harvest of Blossoms: Its Discovery and Remembrance

October 19, 2017

Its Discovery and Remembrance

Harvest of Blossoms

A presentation by
Helene and Irene Silverblatt

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...

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

October 10, 2017

“Gershom Sholem’s Intellectual Biography”

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

A talk by Amir Engel

Organizer Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

Lisa Leff–“The Archive Thief”

November 6, 2017

Lisa Leff–“The Archive Thief”

Organizer Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

Elisheva Baumgarten–Documents of Practice: Possibilities for a Non Rabbinic Perspective on Medieval Jewish Women

November 8, 2017

Possibilities for a Non Rabbinic Perspective on Medieval Jewish Women

Organizer Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

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

November 15, 2017

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.

Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Portland State University. His...

Helen Kim–Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the American Jewish Community: Lessons learned from JewAsians

December 6, 2017
In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories and a growing body of statistics provide data, they tell us little about the inner workings of day-to-day life for such couples and their children. This talk will explore some of the dynamics and larger social dimensions of a particular slice of this growing population. Specifically, this talk...