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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event - Hila Amit Guest Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Queer Belongings and the Jewish “Homeland”: Israeli and Jewish American Lives Between Home and Away\n\nDr. Hila Amit (Thomas Mann House Fellow) in conversation about intersections of queerness\, migration\, and identity in the context of Israel/Palestine and the Jewish diaspora.\n\n\n\n\nThrough a blend of fiction and academic inquiry\, Amit examines the ways queer Jewish lives challenge and reimagine narratives of homeland\, belonging\, and migration. \nIn her academic book “A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel (SUNY\, 2018)\, Amit explores the story of queer Israeli emigrants. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin\, London\, and New York\, she examined motivations for departure and feelings of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective. Amit showed that sexual orientation and left-wing political affiliation play significant roles in decisions to leave. Amit investigated how queer Israeli emigrants question national and heterosexual norms such as army service\, monogamy\, and reproduction\, in their decision to leave Israel. In her new research project\, Amit is conducting interviews with queer Jewish Americans grappling with notions of Homeland and Belonging\, particularly in the wake of the October 7th events and their profound global reverberations. \nMeanwhile\, her two fiction books center on queer experiences in Israel/Palestine\, offering intimate\, layered portrayals of life at the margin of society. Her new fiction work deals with a possible loss of the Hebrew language and a possible obsolescence of the state of Israel. \nThe conversation with Amit will delve into how these themes converge in Amit’s creative and scholarly practices. It will explore the tensions between rootedness and mobility\, the impact of historical trauma on personal and collective identity\, and the possibilities for imagining alternative futures through queer lenses. Amit will also reflect on the role of storytelling—fictional and academic—as a tool for navigating the complexities of identity\, belonging\, and resistance in times of upheaval.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/frankel-center-guest-lecture-hila-amit/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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SUMMARY:Freedom Seder 2025
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Freedom Seder on March 25th from 6:00-8:00pm at the JCC. We will be bringing together the Jewish and Black communities of Greater Ann Arbor for a night of stories\, songs\, and good food. \nRegister here
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/fed-freedom-seder/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor\, 2935 Birch Hollow Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor,Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor - General
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