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The program now has four endowed faculty positions, 28 affiliated faculty from more than 15 departments and nearly 40 courses offered each year.
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On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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Long before Isaac Kramnick joined the Cornell faculty, he was a foster child from a family grappling with poverty and mental illness.
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Enzo Traverso critiques a new trend in historical writing, in which historians place themselves in their books, framing their accounts of history as first-person investigations and revealing emotional ties to their subjects.
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In recognition of his distinguished scholarly contributions to medieval studies, Brann will be inducted during the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25.
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Noah Tamarkin's book "Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa" (Duke University Press, 2020) has recently received two awards.
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Pre-enrollment for Spring 2023 begins November 2 for undergraduate students at Cornell.
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Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.
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The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers to program and campus resources that support teaching and learning, and provide opportunities for peer collaboration and mentorship
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“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
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The Babylonian Talmud, a collection of rabbinic writings produced in ancient Persia, contains a great deal of medical knowledge, according to a recent book by the new director of the Jewish Studies Program.
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A&S faculty will lead many courses on campus and join educational vacations as part of Cornell Adult University.
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A number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.
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Seed grants, student travel grants and internships totaling $355,000 in the 2021–22 academic year supported international work done by many A&S faculty and students.
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The College has awarded seven New Frontier Grants totaling $1.25 million to faculty members pursuing critical developments in areas across sciences and humanities.
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Cornell University is pleased to announce a call for papers for an online workshop on “Judeo-Persian Literature at the Intersection of Jewish Studies and Iranian Studies,” held entirely on Zoom on December 6 and 7, 2022. The deadline to submit a proposal is June 10.
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Starting Fall 2022, with the addition of a redesigned Intermediate Yiddish class, students will be able to fulfill the College of Arts & Sciences’ language requirement by taking Yiddish.
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Pre-enrollment for Fall 2022 begins later this month. See a sample of the courses that the program is offering!
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Cornell Jewish Studies announces a workshop to be held in Ithaca from Monday, August 8 through Friday, August 12, 2022. Scholars at the level of ABD and above, along with independent scholars, are welcome to apply. The application deadline is April 20.
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Now accepting applications from undergraduate students seeking support for travel and research in Summer 2022. The deadline for submissions is May 2, 2022.
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On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers will give a talk, "Darkness in the Holy Land: The Israeli Black Panthers’ Struggle for Human Rights and Against Racism."
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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"These awardees represent the best of what New York's vibrant communities have to offer," said Governor Kathy Hochul.
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Registration is required to attend this virtual conference on April 4 and 5! Although known to specialists since the nineteenth century, the Aramaic incantation bowls have never been fully integrated into the field of Jewish Studies, largely due to their inaccessibility and the confounding nature of their contents...
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Hasidic children will learn about LGBTQ allyship, gender expression and the diverse world of identity when “You Be You: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality and Family” arrives in Yiddish Jan. 31.
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The Cornell Jewish Studies Program supports independent student research through its Summer Travel and Research Grants.
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Elissa Sampson, lecturer in Jewish studies, was interviewed by CNN for their coverage of the recent New York City fires.
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For all Cornell graduate students interested in exploring the intersection between their work and the interdisciplinary field of Jewish Studies: a new workshop on Jewish Studies hosted by the Society for the Humanities.
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Undergraduate students in the Cornell College of Arts & Sciences have the opportunity to conduct research with Jewish studies faculty this summer through the Nexus Scholars Program.
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A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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A classic Yiddish children’s book, “The Clever Little Tailor,” by Solomon Simon (1895-1970) is now available to English-speaking children for the first time.
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This December 2020 conference explored the complex history of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO) a crucial yet largely unknown component of the immigrant Jewish Left. Founded in 1930, the JPFO flourished for two decades as the Jewish division of the Soviet-oriented, multi-ethnic, International Workers Order (IWO) before being shut down...
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Now accepting applications from graduate students seeking support for travel and research in Summer 2022.
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The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
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A selection of courses offered in Spring 2022 by the Jewish studies program.
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The Cornell Jewish Studies Program is accepting proposals for a new course development grant. Cornell faculty interested in developing a new course to be cross-listed with Jewish studies in 2022-23 are invited to apply.
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The Yiddish Studies journal In Geveb has just released an interview with Cornell's visiting assistant professor of Jewish Studies, Jonathan Branfman. The interview discusses Branfman's forthcoming Yiddish LGBTQ youth guide, which will be the first such resource in Yiddish.
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Undergraduate students interested in the intersection of religion and politics or society can now apply for a new prize, to be given out next spring.
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The Cornell Jewish Studies Research and Travel Grant, funded by the Pearl and Otto Delikat Holocaust Memorial Fund, supports graduate students seeking to do archival or field research or to take advantage of learning opportunities not otherwise available on the Cornell campus.
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The Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes support students who want to look at the intersection of religion, politics and society.
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Pre-enrollment begins May 6.View all Jewish studies course offerings. Be sure to check out our language classes in Hebrew and Yiddish, both of which help fulfill the A&S language requirement.New CoursesThe U.S. and the Middle East (JWST 2686)Lec.: MW 10:10-11 Disc.: Fridays3 credits. R. BrannThis seminar examines the history of the...
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The archives of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JPFO), which flourished for two decades before the Cold War, are now housed at Cornell’s Kheel Center, Catherwood Library. Videos from a December 2020 conference focused on the archives are now available online.
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Elissa Sampson was interviewed about the International Workers Order and the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order collections at Cornell University's Kneel Center for an article by Tablet on early 1920's and 30's politically infused Yiddish literature for children.
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The archives of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JPFO), which flourished for two decades before the Cold War, are now housed at Cornell’s Kheel Center, Catherwood Library. Videos from a December 2020 conference focused on the archives are now available online.
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Cornell University’s ILR School Catherwood Library Kheel Center and Jewish Studies Program have announced a recent update to their joint project “Di Linke: the Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War,” documenting the history of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO). All proceedings of the December 2020 webinar conference series...
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How and why Afro-Asian Jews in Israel became associated and engaged with Global Black thought throughout the 20th century will be explored in a virtual talk by Professor Bryan K. Roby on May 6.
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