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

Where: Presentations in 3335 Dwinelle; Reception in 3401 Dwinelle

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...

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...

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

A talk by Amir Engel