Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Portrait of Hilde Bruch with her book Eating Disorders. McGovern Historical Center, MS 007 Hilde Bruch, MD papers.

Alice Weinreb

Associate Professor, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago

“The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust”

Respondent: Madeline Adams (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)

Monday, April 24, 2023 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Swift Hall 200

Alice’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

Pre-circulated paper: Weinreb

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for a presentation by:

“Orange grove” [between 1907 and 1940]; taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Mostafa Hussein

(Assistant Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, University of Michigan)

“Torn between Two Worlds: Palestine Landscape between Hebrew and Arabic”

Respondent: Annie Greene (CMES Research Associate, University of Chicago)

Monday, March 27, 2023 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Swift Hall 208

There will be a reception to follow after sundown in the Swift Hall Common Room 

Mostafa’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

Pre-circulated paper: Hussein

Jewish Studies Workshop, Spring 2023

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 last updated on March 8, 2023.

March 27, Swift 208

Torn between Two Worlds: Palestine Landscape between Hebrew and Arabic

Mostafa Hussein (Assistant Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, University of Michigan)

With a reception to follow in the Swift Hall Common Room

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Tuesday, April 4, 4:30 pm in the Social Sciences Tea Room

How should we write a history of prisoner society? Anna Hájková’s new history of Theresienstadt ghetto

Anna Hájková (Associate Professor of History, University of Warwick)

Held jointly with the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop

Co-Sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies

April 24

Jewish Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust

Alice Weinreb (Associate Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago)

Respondent: Madeline Adams (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)

Tuesday, May 2 in Swift 201

Hortulus 37, 1959: Translation and Self Translation in an Anthology of New Poetry from Israel 

Na’ama Rokem (Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature & Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

Respondent: Rachel Galvin (Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago)

May 8

Conversation about Qohelet

James Robinson (Dean of the Divinity School, University of Chicago) and Simeon Chavel (Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Chicago)

Held jointly with the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop

May 15

Making a Living and Making a Life: Polish Jewry Confronts Economic Modernity

Elena Hoffenberg (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)

May 22 via Zoom

Shema as memory palace? A medieval Hebrew ars memorativa 

Rachel Katz (PhD Candidate, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

Respondent: Aslan Cohen Mizrahi (PhD Candidate, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

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