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In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

February 5, 2020

David KertzerDavid Kertzer (Brown University)

In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Heated debate surrounds the question of the role Christianity and Christian churches played in the Nazi and Italian Fascist demonization of the Jews. This talk brings to light similarities and differences in...

Cold Case in Constantine: Anti-Jewish Violence and the Colonial Situation in French Algeria

February 11, 2020

Joshua Cole
Joshua Cole (University of Michigan)

Steve Zipperstein
Steve Zipperstein (Stanford University)

Cole’s prize-winning book solves the mystery of the Constantine riots of August...

Tapestry of Tongues: The Multilingual Matrix of Modern Hebrew Literature

February 23, 2020

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

Cosponsors:
The University of California, Berkeley Magnes Collection of Jewish Art,
The Center for Jewish Studies,
The Berkeley Institute of Jewish Law and Israel Studies,
The Bernie H....

Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

March 11, 2020

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 SubotićJelena Subotić (Georgia State University)

Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after...

The Song of Songs: A Biography

March 5, 2020

Event cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Ilana PardesIlana 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

The Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind...

Jews and Race

September 24, 2020

Yavilah McCoyYavilah 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. She is a Jewish woman and a person of color and has...

The Song of Songs: A Biography

October 28, 2020

Ilana PardesIlana 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

The Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the...

Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land

November 9, 2020

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

Voices of the Ritual, published with Oxford Universtiy Press is an analysis of the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East. In the midst of turbulent political contention over land and borders,...

Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

November 24, 2020

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

In Life in Citations, I tell a complicated story about the relationship of secular Israelis to biblical narratives. From the early days of Zionism, the Bible has wielded an immense...

“The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past”

October 4, 2021

Liora R. HalperinLiora R. Halperin, University of Washington.

In this talk, Liora Halperin tells the story of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they grew into the backbone of lucrative citrus and wine industries in British...