Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Nurit Siegal (MAPSS, Political Science, University of Chicago)

“The Origins of Modern Antisemitism: The Rise of the Nation-State and the Suppression of Jews’ Ethnic Identity”

With a response by:

Tahel Goldsmith (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)

Monday April 12, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Nurit’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.

To join the Zoom meeting, click here

(Meeting ID: 960 9363 1381 / Password: Siegal2021 )

Pre-circulated Paper: Siegal_Jewish Studies Workshop

Dear All,

Jewish Studies Workshop Schedule – Spring 2021 

April 12

The Origins of Modern Antisemitism: The Rise of the Nation-State and the Suppression of Jews’ Ethnic Identity

Nurit Siegal (MAPSS Student in Political Science, University of Chicago)

April 19

W(h)it(e)ness: Judaism, Race and Religion in Postwar France

Kirsten Collins (PhD Student, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

May 3

Creole Ambivalence: The Politics of Jewishness in Caribbean Suriname, 1939-1959

Eli Rosenblatt, PhD (Visiting Researcher, Northwestern University)

May 17

From Prophetic to Postcolonial Witnessing: Poetry of the First Lebanon War and Ravikovitch’s Representation of “the Other”

Stephanie Kraver (PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)

May 24

 A Bundist and a Zionist? Liebmann Hersch on Cultural Autonomy and Minority Rights

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

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Samuel Catlin (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, University of Chicago)

“No Sin to Limp: Geoffrey Hartman and the Question of Secular Criticism”

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

David Barak-Gorodetsky (Visiting Fellow, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

Please join us for a meeting of the Jewish Studies Workshop, with a presentation by:

Matthew Johnson (PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)

“Glikl’s Circulation: Philology, Translation, and Value”

Monday February 1, 2021 at 2:00 PM Central (via Zoom)

Matthew’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.

To join the Zoom meeting, click here

(Meeting ID: 943 9606 6467 / Password: Glikl )

Pre-circulated Paper: Johnson_Glikl_JSW

Please join us for a meeting of the Jewish Studies Workshop, with a presentation by:

Adriana Jacobs (Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, University of Oxford)

“Translation and Catastrophe: Hezy Leskly’s ‘Zombie Memories’ ”

Tuesday, January 19, 2020 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

To join the Zoom meeting, click here

(Meeting ID: 977 3910 9099 / Password: zombies)

Chapter from Professor Jacob’s book, to be read in advance (Password: cocktail): yeshurun_SC_jacobs

Please join us for a joint meeting of the Jewish Studies Workshop and the Islamic Studies Workshop, with a presentation by:

Adi Shiran (PhD Candidate, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

“Not All Minds Are Meant To Be Free: The Textual History of Maimonides’ Interpretation to the Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart”

Monday, November 30, 2020 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

To join the Zoom meeting, click here

(Meeting ID:  920 1814 3708 / Password: hardheart)

*no paper to be read in advance of the workshop*

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

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

“Jacques Hassoun and the Politics of the Arab-Jew in Postcolonial France”

Monday, November 16, 2020 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Mendel’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..

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(Meeting ID: 998 5631 3068  / Password: hassoun)

Pre-circulated Paper: kranz_JS_workshop

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for our first event of the 2020-21 academic year, a presentation by:

Yiftach Ofek (PhD Candidate, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

“Gershom Scholem: The Jew as Anti-Bourgeois”

With a response by:

Matthew Johnson (PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)

Monday, October 19, 2020 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Yiftach’s in-progress dissertation chapter, to be read in advance of the workshop, is available 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.

To join the Zoom meeting, click here.

(Meeting ID: 915 0389 6725  / Password: Scholem)

Pre-circulated Paper: Ofek_Yiftach_Scholem