Monday April 3, 4:30-6 PM, Harper 130: *Guest Speaker* Dr. Michael Berkowitz (Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London): “Who Ran the Show? American Jews, Moviemaking during the Second World War, and New Perspectives from the Archives.”
Wednesday April 5, 4:30-6 PM, Wieboldt 206: *Guest Speaker* Dr. Jeffrey Shandler (Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University): “The Holocaust for Beginners: Yankev Glatshteyn’s ‘Emil un Karl’ and Other Wartime Writing for Young Readers.” Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies, the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, and the UChicago Yiddish Tish.
Monday May 1, 4:30-6 PM, Harper 148: Annie Greene (PhD Student, NELC): “Reburying a Rabbi in Ottoman Baghdad.” Co-sponsored by the Islamic Studies Workshop.
Monday May 15, 4:30-6 PM, Harper 148: Anna Band (PhD Student, History): “At Home in the Pension: Jewish Spaces of Longing and Belonging in Weimar Berlin.”
Monday May 22, 4:30-6 PM, Harper 148: David Cohen (PhD Student, Divinity): “Yitzhak Ibn Latif: A Mystical Philosopher or a Philosophical Mystic? A Commentary on Tzror Ha’Mor Chapter Five.”
Monday June 5, 4:30-6 PM, Harper 148: Mili Leitner (PhD Student, Ethnomusicology): “Musical Discourses of Racialization in Palestine, 1900-1948.” Co-sponsored by the EthNoise Workshop.