The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on December 9, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Jonathan Elukin (@trinitycollege.bsky.social ) presenting "Can a Jew Love? Christians, Emotions, and Jewish History". More: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

Join us on December 2nd for "Israel/Palestine as a Shared Space: Historical Failures and Alternative Pathways for the Future" with Professor Yuval Evri @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social .

Join us on December 2nd, "The Camera as Witness: Visual Storytelling in the West Bank" with award-winning visual storyteller Emily Glick. RSVP by 11/23 with this link: tinyurl.com/emilyglick

Join author Thomas Blubacher and scholars Cynthia Porter and Anjeana Hans for a discussion of the broader context of Blubacher's recently translated book "Weimar Under the Palms." The event will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 5:00 - 6:30 pm ET (US).

Tonight,
@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Rapaporte Treasure Hall is hosting “Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict,” presented by Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD. The event is sponsored by @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social, cosponsored by the Schusterman Center.

Join our colleagues at the Mandel Center for the Humanities on Monday, Oct 20 for “Witnessing as Memory Activism: Perspectives from Two Berlin-Based Migrant Groups,” with Prof Irit Dekel (Indiana University), 2:30-3:50 pm in Mandel 303. Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies.

Join us for another Author Conversation, featuring Sven-Erik Rose, author of "Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos". The event will be held on Thursday, October 23, at 12:30 pm. Free and open to the public. A light kosher lunch will be served.

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on October 21, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Ehud Krinis
(@bengurionuni.bsky.social)
presenting "Through the Sufi Curtain: Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart and the Islamic Zuhd Tradition." More info: brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

Our colleagues at the Mandel Center for the Humanities invite you to a book event with award-winning Israeli author Tehila Hakimi on Thursday, September 25, from 1:20–2:10 pm in Mandel 303. Hakimi will read from her recent novel, "Hunting in America," and talk about her work.

Join us Monday, September 15, for "Interreligious Dialogue, Missteps, and Opportunities: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Question of Antisemitism," a presentation by Benjamin E. Sax. The event will take place at 12:00 pm in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Forum.

Join us for another Author Conversation, featuring Noa Shashar, author of The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 10, at 12 pm in Lown 315 and is free and open to the public. A light kosher lunch will be served. shorturl.at/v3hAN

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on September 9, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Trevor Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) presenting "Alexandre Kojève's Sophia, or the Misfortunes of Wisdom."
More info: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

On May 30th, 2025, at 2 PM ET, the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and Shakespeare & Company are honored to present “Chaim Weizmann and the Two State Solution” with Jehuda Reinharz, PhD, President Emeritus of Brandeis University.

Tomorrow, on Tuesday, March 25, at 4:30 pm EST, Juliet Carey, Senior Curator @waddesdonmanor.bsky.social, and Juliet Carey, Professor of Modern European History @ox.ac.uk, will deliver the 61st Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall in the Brandeis Library.

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on March 18, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Noa Tsaushu (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) presenting "Yiddish Art: The Formal and Social Functions of Marginality."
More info: brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

Jewish Country Houses, edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green and published by @brandeispress.bsky.social, was featured in the most recent edition of the New York Times Book Review.

Click the link below to read the article and buy the book from Brandeis University Press: linktr.ee/tauberinstit...

TOMORROW! Rebecca Wittmann will present "Haunted and Hallowed Grounds: Confronting the German Past in the First Person" at the Jewish Studies Colloquium on Tuesday, December 10, 2024.

More info and Zoom registration: tinyurl.com/2yzcsnrw