SPRING 2024
JANUARY
Monday, January 22, at 7PM
“A Gathering of Strangers: The Making of The Merchant in Venice“
Film screening & panel discussion with Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Karin Coonrod, Linda Powell, David Scott Kastan, and Sara Lipton
This event is hosted by Fordham’s Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 at 1PM
How Did We Get Here?: A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine
with Hussein Ibish and David N. Myers
Part II: 1948-1967
The event is co-presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, Center on Religion and Culture, Department of History, the International Studies Program, and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.
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Tuesday, January 30th at 1PM
The Historian Jules Isaac – From Teaching of Contempt to Teaching of Esteem
(film screening and a webinar)
with
Emmanuel Chouraqui and Matthieu Langlois
in conversation about Jules Isaac and Chouraqui’s film “The Historian Jules Isaac – From Teaching of Contempt to Teaching of Esteem”
FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 8th, 5PM
Exhibit Opening
Knife/Paint/Words:
The Art of Deborah Ugoretz
in Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room
Reception and artist’s talk by Deborah Ugoretz
Walsh Family Library, O’Hare Special Collections
WATCH
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Sunday, February 11th at 3PM
“Banned! A History of Censorship”: Censoring Anne Frank’s Diary
Censorship exhibit walk-through and a talk by Ruth Franklin
Walsh Family Library. Rose Hill Campus
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 at 1PM
How Did We Get Here?: A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine with Hussein Ibish and David N. Myers
Part III: 1967-2023
(webinar)
The event is co-presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, Center on Religion and Culture, Department of History, the International Studies Program, and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, 6-8PM
Jewish and Jewish Studies Alumni Network Happy Hour
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024 at 1PM
Elisheva Baumgarten, “Contending with Domestic Crises: Jewish Marriages in the Late Middle Ages”
MARCH
Sunday, March 10th at 3PM
“Banned! A History of Censorship”: The Censorship of Yiddish Press
Censorship exhibit walk-through and a talk by Ayelet Brian
Walsh Family Library. Rose Hill Campus
Monday, March 18th at 1PM
Fordham-NYPL Lecture Series in Jewish Studies
Nick Underwood
Yiddish as a Zionist National Language in Post-Holocaust France
with a response by Shachar Pinsker
Lincoln Center
WATCH
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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at 6PM
How Did We Get Here?: A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine with Hussein Ibish and David N. Myers
Part IV: October 7th and the Aftermath
WATCH
The event is co-presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, Center on Religion and Culture, Department of History, the International Studies Program, and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.
Check out the resource page.
APRIL
Tuesday, April 2nd at 6PM
Fordham-NYPL Lecture Series in Jewish Studies
Rivka Elitzur-Leiman
Magic in New York: Reassessing a 1900s Collection of Late Antique Jewish Amulets at the NYPL
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Sunday, April 7th at 11 AM
A papercutting workshop with artist Deborah Ugoretz
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Monday, April 8th at 6PM
Fordham-NYPL Lecture Series in Jewish Studies
Marilyn Miller
Righteous Revolutionary: Cuban Independence Leader José Martí and his Jewish Supporters
*Thursday, April 11th at 1PM
Pablo Lerner
“Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Legal Perspective”
(lunch talk/conversation)
Lincoln Center
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Monday, April 15th at 6PM
Fordham-NYPL Lecture Series in Jewish Studies
Shachar Pinsker
When Yiddish Was Young in Israel
Tuesday, April 16th at 1PM
“Israel, Hebrew, and American Campuses”
A Lunch Conversation with Maya Arad
at Lincoln Center
Wednesday, April 17th at 4PM
Hollis Granoff Landauer
“The Shoah (Holocaust) in Kibbutz Haggadot” (webinar)
MAY
Thursday, May 2nd at 6PM
Fordham-NYPL Lecture Series in Jewish Studies
Klara Naszkowska
Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance
PAST EVENTS: FALL 2023
In addition to the events listed below, we also have two exhibitions that will be on display in the Walsh Library: “THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL: Stained-Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues in Ukraine by Eugeny Kotlyar” in the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room and “Banned! A History of Censorship” on the main floor of the Walsh Family Library and in the O’Hare Special Collections. A smaller display is also in the Quinn Library.
SEPTEMBER
Sunday, September 10, 11 AM
A walking tour of “the Jewish Bronx” with Dr. David Herszenberg, exploring Longwood
Sunday, September 10, 2 PM
EXHIBITION OPENING: “THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL. Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues of Ukraine by Eugeny Kotlyar”
On view in the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room at the Walsh Family Library until December 10, 2024
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 4 PM (in person only)
EXHIBITION OPENING: “Banned! A History of Censorship”
On view until March 15, 2024
Thursday, September 21, 2023 from 12:30-1:45 PM
(Duane Room 140-in person only)
Lunch Seminar with Ludwig Decke “Anti-Racism and Transitional Jewish Politics”
OCTOBER
Tuesday, October 17th, 12 PM (Webinar only)
Film screening of “Egypt: A Love Song”
The panel discussion with Iris Zaki, film director, Alon Tam, and Mohamed Alsiadi has been postponed.
Alon Tam, “Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century Cairo”
Tuesday, October 24th, 6 PM (In-person and webinar)
Black Studies and Jewish Studies in Conversation
“Shared Past/Divided Present: Museums and Public History”
With Christy S. Coleman, Erica Lehrer, and Annie Polland
Thursday, November 9, 6 PM (in person and webinar)
Book Launch for Orit Avishai, Queer Judaism: LGBT Activist and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel
With Orit Avishai (Fordham University) in conversation with Brett Krutzsch (New York University)
Sunday, November 12, 3 PM
A Tour of the Exhibit “Banned! A History of Censorship”
and a talk by Andreea Badea, Goethe-University, Frankfurt
“The Roman Congregation of the Index and EarlyModern Practices of Censoring”
Tuesday, November 21, NOON (EST)
Panel discussion about Iris Zaki’s film Egypt: A Love Song”
with Iris Zaki, film director, Alon Tam, and Mohamed Alsiadi
Tuesday, November 28, 1 PM (Webinar only)
Black Studies and Jewish Studies in Conversation
“Memory, Heritage, and Material Remains”
with Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) and Yechiel Weizman (Bar-Ilan University)
Thursday, November 30, 6 PM (In person and webinar)
Book Launch for Emanuel Fiano’s Three Powers in Heaven: The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways
With Beth Berkowitz and Ben Dunning
Sunday, December 3, 3PM
A Tour of the Exhibit “Banned! A History of Censorship” with Federica Francesconi, University of Albany
Wednesday, December 6 at 6 PM
How Did We Get Here? A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine
A Four-Part Series with Hussein Ibish and David Myers
Part I: Arabs and Jews: 1881-1948
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All events are possible through the generosity of The Knapp Family Foundation, The Picket Family Foundation, the Shvidler Gift Fund to Fordham University, Fordham Trustee Henry S. Miller, and individual donations from friends of the Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham.
