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Jewish Studies Program

Founded on the conviction that the record contained in the languages, literature, and history of the Jewish people, as these developed across the globe and over thousands of years, are an integral part of human heritage. 

Jewish Studies Events

Oct 20
Monday

Ross Brann - "Moses Maimonides: A Genius for All Seasons"

Monday, Oct, 20 - 05:30 PM

NYC - Cornell Club

This is a inperson event.

Event speaker

Ross Brann

Cornell University

Description

You are cordially invited to attend a talk by the Jewish Studies Program's new Director

Ross Brann (Morris Escoll '16 Director of the Jewish Studies Program, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies)

Monday, October 20

Cornell Club, 6 E 44th Street, New York, NY

Reception: 5:30 p.m.

Talk begins: 6:30 p.m.

Please, RSVP to attend

Event access

public

Oct 23
Thursday

Dario Miccoli- "Mediterranean Afterlives: Migration and Memory in Contemporary Italian Sephardi Authors"

Thursday, Oct, 23 - 05:00 PM

This is a virtual event.

Event speaker

Dario Miccoli

University of Venice

Description

This talk will present Jewish authors from the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean – specifically Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Rhodes – who emigrated to Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. Based upon the analysis of a corpus of novels, autobiographies and memoirs published over the last thirty years, I will discuss the history of Sephardi migration to Italy and how the memories of the country of origin have been narrated vis-à-vis the country of arrival. The works of authors such as Miro Silvera, Isacco Papo, Daniela Dawan, Paolo Terni, Esther Fintz Menascé and others will be interpreted as Mediterranean Afterlives that allow us to see what remains of allegedly lost Jewish worlds and to retrace which feelings and historical events – from nostalgia to Sefarad and the Holocaust – are mobilized against the backdrop of postcolonial Italy.

Dario Miccoli is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where he also coordinates the MA in Transmediterranean Studies. His research focuses on the contemporary history and memory of the Jews of the Arab world and of the Mediterranean, as well as on Sephardi and Mizrahi literature. Among his publications: A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2022) and Histories of the Jews of Egypt: an Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s (Routledge, 2015).

Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program

Virtual/hybrid event information

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Event access

public

Contact information

For more information contact K.E. von Wittelsbach

Nov 13
Thursday

Admiel Kosman- "The Hero's Name as a Literary Device in the Talmudic Story in Gender Context: Mar Ukva and his Wife (BT Ketubot 67b)"

Thursday, Nov, 13 - 05:00 PM

This is a virtual event.

Event speaker

Admiel Kosman

University of Potsdam, Germany

Description

The Talmudic story at the center of this presentation is one about Mar Ukva, leader of the Jewish exile in Babylon, in the fourth century CE, and his wife (who appears nameless in the story).

The perspective Kosman offers on the story initially uses a close reading and subsequently explores the theological questions that the story poses. The surprising point of view of the Talmudic narrator on the relationship between the masculine and the feminine is present at both levels of Kosman's analysis.

Virtual/hybrid event information

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o8jW2qKaSISYMkU0Ktof0Q

Event access

public

Contact information

For more information contact K.E. von Wittelsbach

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