Meetings will be held from 5:00 – 6:30 pm CST on Mondays in Swift Hall 200, unless indicated otherwise. 

Advanced copies of papers (and Zoom links, where applicable) will be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv and made available on our website. If you would like to be added to our listserv, you can do so here, or email us at skraver@uchicago.edu or ehoffenberg@uchicago.edu.

Please note that this schedule was updated on February 21, 2023.

February 13

The Politics of the Arab-Jew: Colonial Memory, Immigration, and Postcolonial Futures in North African Jewish Writing of the 1980s

Mendel Kranz (PhD Candidate, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

February 20

H.N. Bialik’s Translation of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell

Ido Telem (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

Thursday, March 2, 5 pm in Swift 208

“You could not walk on Krakowskie Przedmiescie before the war”: Experience of Interwar and Holocaust violence as socio-political factor in the Jewish life in Poland in the early post-war years

Kamil Kijek (Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław)

Held jointly with Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop

With support from the Aronberg Lectureship in Judaica Endowment, Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies

Meetings will be held from 5:00 – 6:30 pm CST on Mondays in Swift Hall 200, unless indicated otherwise. Due to Jewish holidays throughout the first half of the quarter, our meetings are not being held on the typical biweekly schedule. 

Advanced copies of papers (and Zoom links, where applicable) will be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv and made available on our website here. If you would like to be added to our listserv, you can do so here, or email us at skraver@uchicago.edu or ehoffenberg@uchicago.edu. 

Jewish Studies Workshop Schedule – Fall 2022 

 October 3

Secularization vs. Religious Pluralism: Re-evaluating Jewish and Non-Jewish Responses to the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753

Julia Pohlmann (PhD Student, History, University of Aberdeen)

5 pm-6:30 pm CST via Zoom

Co-Sponsored by the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop 

October 24

Figuring Jerusalem Discussion

Join workshop members for a discussion of Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi’s work Figuring Jerusalem 5pm-5:45 pm CST 

After this discussion, the workshop will walk to the Seminary Co-op for an event featuring Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi in conversation with Na’ama Rokem. More information about the event here.

November 28

Seeing the Face of your Dying Enemy: A Levinasian Reading of the Petichta of Masechet Semachot 

Ranana Dine (PhD Student, Religious Ethics, Divinity School, University of Chicago) 

December 5

Empire’s Heterotopia: The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme’s Discourse and Action in Cases of Antisemitism in the Metropole and Colonial Algeria

Kyra Schulman (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)

Dear Colleagues,

The Jewish Studies Workshop is now accepting submissions for presentations during the upcoming academic year 2022-2023. 

Our workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for open discourse and critical reflection on student and faculty work in progress. We welcome submissions from graduate students, faculty, and postdoctoral fellows in all departments, fields, periods, and disciplines that pertain to Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism. Drafts of dissertation proposals, chapters, seminar papers, journal articles, and conference papers are all welcome, as are non-traditional academic projects such as translations. In the upcoming year, our workshop is planning to meet on Mondays, but we will meet at different times to accommodate virtual presenters from different time zones.

The deadline for proposals to present in the upcoming year is Thursday, September 1st. The proposals should include a title, abstract (max. 200 words), desired quarter or time of year to present, and an idea of who may serve as a respondent. This material can be sent via email to the workshop coordinators Stephanie Kraver (skraver@uchicago.edu) and Elena Hoffenberg (ehoffenberg@uchicago.edu).

Please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any questions, thoughts or suggestions regarding the workshop. 

Best regards,

Stephanie & Elena