Davi Strauss Bernstein (PhD student in History) will present his paper “The Bitburg Crisis.” Please download the paper here, and read it in advance.
Coffee, tea, and snacks will be served.
Tuesday, May 7th at 4:30 in Swift 208 (note change of location!)
If you are in need of special assitance, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu.
Shaul Magid (Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University) will present a chapter from his manuscript-in-progress, Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism and the ‘Christianization’ of Modern Judaism. The chapter itself is entitled “Divinization and ‘Incarnational Thinking’ in Hasidism: An Overview.” Please download the chapter here and read it in advance. Also, in order to get a better sense of the project as a whole, see the table of contents here. Dr. Magid is the author of Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism (Wisconsin University Press, 2004), From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbalah (Indiana University Press, 2008) and American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society (Indiana University Press, 2013).
Rachel Elior, Visiting Professor at the U of C this quarter, will offer a brief response, and then we will open it up for general discussion and questions.
Coffee, tea, and whiskey will be served.
See you there!
If you are in need of special assistance, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu.
The Medieval Studies and Jewish Studies Workshops are pleased to invite you to a joint session, to be held on Friday, February 22, from 12-1:30 PM in Wieboldt 207.
John Tolan, Professor of History (Université de Nantes), will discuss his paper, “Western European Jewry in the first age of expulsion: 1182-1306.” David Frankel, PhD Student in History of Judaism, will offer a prepared response.
Coffee and tea will be served. Attendees are invited to bring a lunch and to read the pre-circulated paper: click here for the paper.
If you are in need of assistance, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu
Please join us as Professor Michael Fishbane will present his paper “Biblical Hermeneutics and Philosophical Theology: A Jewish Model.” The paper can be downloaded here. The program will include prepared responses from Professor Richard Rosengarten and Bevin Blaber (PhD student in Philosophy of Religions).
The event will take place on Tuesday, February 12th at 4:30pm in Swift 106.
A reception will follow in the Swift Hall Common Room. The event is co-sponsored by the Hebrew Bible Workshop and the Center for Jewish Studies.
If you have any questions, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu.
See you there!
In this session of the Jewish Studies Workshop, David Gottlieb (PhD student in History of Judaism) will present his paper “Rupture, Reflection and Renewal: Mimesis and the Transformation of Meaning in Leviticus Rabbah.” The paper can be downloaded here.
The event will take place on Monday, October 22nd at 1:30pm in Social Science Research building room 224 (John Hope Franklin room), at 1126 E. 59th Street. Feel free to bring your lunch to the table, along with questions, reflections and a listening ear.
If you have any questions, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu or mbilsker@uchicago.edu
See you there!
In this joint session of the Jewish Studies Workshop and the Philosophy of Religions Club, Erik Dreff (PhD student in History of Judaism) will present his paper entitled “Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption as a System of Philosophy.” Erik’s paper can be downloaded here.
The event will take place on Monday, October 15th at 1:30pm in the John Hope Franklin room, located in Social Science Research Building room 224, at 1126 E. 59th Street (***NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION FROM LAST YEAR’S JST_HB MEETINGS!).
If you have any questions, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu or mbilsker@uchicago.edu
See you there!