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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:“Orthodox Jewish Wellness Influencers in the Age of Viral Politics” with Ayala Fader (Fordham University) \nThursday\, March 26 from 5:30 – 8:00 PM \nMichigan Union\, Pendleton Room \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/15PN8 \nThe University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Ayala Fader of Fordham University will deliver the 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture\, titled “Orthodox Jewish Wellness Influencers in the Age of Viral Politics.” This free\, public lecture will take place in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union on Thursday\, March 26\, 2026. Please RSVP at https://myumi.ch/15PN8 to let us know if you plan to attend. \nOver the past decade\, frum (Orthodox) Jewish women wellness influencers on social media have become a significant presence. Despite attempts by some rabbis to silence them\, frum influencers in the United States and Israel continue to share intimate details of their everyday lives online\, earning a living through the promotion of products linked to their platforms. Professor Fader’s talk examines the seemingly contradictory worlds these influencers navigate: while claiming new forms of gendered authority\, they simultaneously reinforce traditional Jewish family structures and gender roles. \nDrawing inspiration from conservative Christian wellness influencers\, frum influencers create content that asserts Jewish exceptionalism while fostering unexpected exchanges with conservative Christian women. The lecture will consider whether frum social media influencers are subtly promoting illiberal politics through the gendered language of wellness. \nAyala Fader is Professor of Anthropology and Jewish Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning books Mitzvah Girls (2009) and Hidden Heretics (2020). Professor Fader’s research has been generously supported by numerous fellowships and grants\, including those from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. As the founding director of Fordham’s New York Center for Public Anthropology & Sociology\, she leads the Demystifying Language Project\, which makes linguistic anthropology a social justice resource for public high schools. \nThe David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs was established in 1991 through a generous gift from the late David W. Belin of Des Moines (IA) and New York to provide an academic forum for the discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States. As the founding chair of Reform Judaism’s Outreach Commission and a founding member of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, Belin served the American Jewish community in numerous leadership roles. His commitment to the future of American Jewry inspired him to endow this annual lectureship\, providing a forum for meaningful discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-36th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture/
LOCATION:Michigan Union\, 530 S State St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Community,Educational,Food Provided,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T170000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: How Ford Transformed Religion in America
DESCRIPTION:How Ford Transformed Religion in America\nTuesday\, March 24 from 5 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/y1Wbw \nSpecial Guest: Kati Curtis (Sewanee University) \n  \nWhat does a motor company and its founder have to do with religion in America? A lot\, it turns out. Henry Ford did not just mass-produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church\, reader of New Thought texts\, believer in the “gospel of reincarnation\,” mass marketer of antisemitic material\, and employer who institutionalized a social gospel\, Henry Ford’s contributions to American models of business were informed by and produced for an America he understood to be broadly Christian. Though Ford’s efforts at the head of the Ford Motor Company have commonly been understood as secular\, the Motor King was explicit that his work in engineering and auto production was prophetic and meant to remake the world. This talk offers a religious history of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company\, repositioning them within critical studies of religion and examining how Ford transformed American religion in the twentieth century. \n 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-how-ford-transformed-religion-in-america/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Learning,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: Hasidic Women in the Media
DESCRIPTION:Hasidic Women in the Media\nTuesday\, March 17\, from 5:00 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/bV2rx \nSpecial Guests: Jessica Roda & Malchy Goldman\, Moderator: Shachar Pinsker \n  \nIn a compelling lecture performance\, author Jessica Roda presents themes from her groundbreaking book *For Women and Girls Only*\, joined by actress\, writer\, and producer Malky Goldman—the book’s remarkable protagonist. The event offers a nuanced exploration of the representation of Hasidic female identity in media\, on screen\, and on stage. Goldman\, who was raised in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem\, shares her deeply personal journey navigating the arts from within and beyond the boundaries of her Hasidic upbringing. Through dialogue\, multimedia\, and live performance\, the evening exposes the tensions between tradition and self-expression\, visibility and erasure\, community expectations and artistic freedom. Roda contextualizes Goldman’s story within broader questions of gender\, religion\, and representation\, challenging reductive portrayals of Hasidic women in mainstream media. Goldman’s voice—grounded\, creative\, and courageous—offers a powerful counter-narrative\, reclaiming agency and complexity for Hasidic female identities on public stages. The performance invites audiences to reconsider assumptions and listen to stories often silenced or misunderstood.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-hasidic-women-in-the-media/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Learning,Presentation,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T170000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: Jewish Journalism in Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Journalism in Dark Times\nTuesday\, February 24 from 5:00 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/QwpXD \nPanelists: Naomi Brenner (Ohio State University)\, Gilad Halpern\, and Matthew Handelman (2025–2026 Frankel Institute Fellows) \n  \nJoin us for a roundtable discussion exploring the transformation of Jewish journalism during the interwar years (1918–1939) and World War II\, an era of profound upheaval. Panelists will analyze how Jewish newspapers and journals became vital platforms for political\, literary\, and cultural engagement. The discussion will highlight dramatic shifts in journalistic practices\, including evolving editorial strategies\, reporting methods\, and technological innovations in format and distribution and the transnational and transcultural elements that come to the fore during that time. Panelists will also examine the economic pressures and opportunities that shaped the Jewish press\, and consider the influence and role of Jews as journalists within the broader media landscape. \nGilad Halpern\, journalist and media historian\, draws on recent doctoral research on The Palestine Post amid imperial decline and rising nationalism\, bridging professional and scholarly perspectives. Naomi Brenner explores entertainment fiction in the Hebrew and Yiddish press\, focusing on the aesthetics and politics of the roman-feuilleton as a transnational literary form. Matthew Handelman investigates the cultural politics of German Jewish intellectuals and the primacy of culture in political discourse from the Weimar Republic onward. \nCentral to the conversation is the role of Jewish periodicals as spaces for cultural expression\, literary experimentation\, and political debate. These publications not only documented Jewish life\, but actively shaped identities\, fostered transnational dialogue\, and provided forums for writers\, artists\, and intellectuals grappling with questions of survival and belonging. This roundtable offers timely insights into journalism during a time of crisis\, illuminating enduring questions about Jews and media.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-jewish-journalism-in-dark-times/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T183000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: When Hebrew Met the Machine
DESCRIPTION:A Book Talk with Ido Ramati  \nTuesday\, February 10 from 5:00 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/W6Ard \nSpecial Guest: Ido Ramati (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, Moderator: Shachar Pinsker \nWhat happens when an ancient language meets modern technology? This lecture will discuss the role played by media technologies—such as the phonograph\, typewriters\, the telegraph\, and computers—in the revitalization and modernization of Hebrew since the end of the nineteenth century. After lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language\, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber and became a living modern vernacular. The revitalization of Hebrew is unique and unprecedented in world history\, and it has been studied in various fields; but the role of modern media technologies in mediating this revival has not yet been considered. This lecture will delve into questions such as: what was the role of sound recording technologies in shaping the reemerging modern Hebrew speech? And how did the Hebraized typewrite pushed for the modernization of writing in Hebrew?. It will show how these media\, whose emergence ran in historical parallel to the revitalization of Hebrew\, were an active force in shaping the language as a modern communicative medium. Hebrew was a historical media lab: written from right to left and in unique script\, it posed technical as well as conceptual challenges to media which were originally designed for Latin script and Western writing systems. The adaptation of these technologies to Hebrew required various adaptations that shaped lingual mechanisms\, which had social and political ramifications on the emerging Hebrew culture. 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-when-hebrew-met-the-machine/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hebrew and Yiddish,Jewish Learning,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T183000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: Overlapping Jurisdictions: How Islamic Courts Upheld Jewish Law in Colonial Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Overlapping Jurisdictions: How Islamic Courts Upheld Jewish Law in Colonial Egypt \nTuesday\, November 18  from 5:00 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nSpecial Guest: Samy Ayoub\, Moderator: Aaron Rock-Singer \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/e315y \n  \nThis special lecture by Samy Ayoub and moderated by Aaron Rock-Singer will argue that legal pluralism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt was sustained by institutional structures\, procedural norms\, and Islamic legal practice under Khedival rule. Far from resisting pluralism\, Ottoman-era Islamic legal practice facilitated the incorporation of other legal traditions\, including the adjudication of Jewish communities’ affairs\, making them integral to the functioning of the legal order. This coexistence\, however\, was destabilized with the establishment of the secular national courts in 1883\, which progressively asserted universal jurisdiction and ultimately subsumed the entire legal sphere. \nDr. Samy Ayoub\, an Associate Professor of Law and Middle East Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas School of Law\, specializes in Islamic law\, modern Middle East law\, and law and religion in contemporary Muslim societies. He focuses on issues concerning the interaction between religion and law\, and the role of religion in contemporary legal and socio-political systems within a global comparative perspective. This talk is part of a new project\, Making Islamic Law Relevant\, which explores state regulation of legal practice in Egypt from 1800-1950
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-overlapping-jurisdictions-how-islamic-courts-upheld-jewish-law-in-colonial-egypt/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T173000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: The Media of Holocaust Memory
DESCRIPTION:The Media of Holocaust Memory \nSpecial Guests: Todd Presner\, Laura Levitt\, Moderator: Cara Rock-Singer \n  \nHow do we remember the Holocaust in 2025? “The Media of Holocaust Memory” brings together two leading Holocaust scholars to discuss the role of “high tech” computer algorithms and AI and “low tech” monuments and material artifacts as technologies for memorializing. In conversation with each other and the audience\, Levitt and Presner will discuss how the ethical possibilities and challenges Holocaust memory have and will continue to evolve in the twenty-first century.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-the-media-of-holocaust-memory/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T190000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: On Jewish Print Media with Author Vivi Lachs
DESCRIPTION:The 2025-26 Frankel Institute “Jews & Media” Theme year is pleased to welcome Vivi Lachs\, author of East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press\, to Ann Arbor for a special presentation on Jewish print media in collaboration with Frankel Institute Fellows. \n  \nStay tuned for more details!
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-on-jewish-print-media-with-author-vivi-lachs/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event:  The Great Yiddish Parade: Culture\, Activism\, and Song
DESCRIPTION:Join Vivi Lachs\, author of East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press\, and the Frankel Center’s Yiddish Lecturer\, Elena Luchina\, for a Yiddish Workshop geared towards students. \nMore details to come.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-undergraduate-yiddish-workshop/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T183000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:NEXTGen A2: Rosh Hashanah Fall Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of service and fun! \nWe will celebrate the New Year with an act of service for our own JCC and then convene together for some snacks and time together after. There will be cider\, donuts\, and a caramel apple station! \nWe hope to see you and your friends there! \n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/nextgen-a2-rosh-hashana-fall-event/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor\, 2935 Birch Hollow Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for Jewish Studies - EMU,Community,Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor,Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor,Jewish Holidays,Jewish People of Color Network,Jewish Young Professionals,NEXTGen A2,Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: Jewish Music in 4 Objects with Assaf Shelleg
DESCRIPTION:The first event of the 2025-26 Frankel Institute “Jews & Media” theme year will be a workshop on Jewish Music & Sound. The intimate event will feature special presentations by visiting scholar Assaf Shelleg and Frankel Fellows Jeremiah Lockwood\, Uri Schreter\, and Tamar Sella. \n  \nStay tuned for more details.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-jewish-music-sound-workshop-with-assaf-shelleg/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
CREATED:20250417T142409Z
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event - Spring Conference - Thinking With\, About\, and Against “Jewish Reproduction”
DESCRIPTION:Over the past four decades legal scholars\, ethicists\, historians\, anthropologists\, sociologists\, and demographers have laid bare the centrality of reproduction to social life\, power\, and politics. At this convening\, we will think together about how Jewish reproduction shapes kinship structures\, ritual life\, imaginations of Jewish pasts and futures\, concepts of personhood\, and communal boundaries. \nRSVP FOR INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS HERE \nConference Schedule: \nWednesday\, May 7 \n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Session 1: Bodies of Knowledge\nPanelists: Ben Kasstan and Laura Yares \n2:30 – 4:00 PM – Session 2: Futurity\nModerator: Lauren Gwin\nPanelists: Mara Benjamin and Tiarra Maznick \n4:30 – 6:00 PM – Session 3: Repro Images and Imaginaries\nModerator: Deborah Dash Moore\nPanelists: Gabriel Chazan\, Sara Fein\, and Sara Ronis \nThursday\, May 8 \n9:00 – 10:30 AM – Session 4: Bio-Theologies of Reproduction\nModerator: Seda Saluk\nPanelists: Cara Rock-Singer and Lea Taragin-Zeller \n11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Session 5: Making Jewish Families\nModerator: Iris Rachamamov\nPanelists: Cassandra Euphrat Weston\, Jordan Katz\, and Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman (virtual) \n2:00 – 3:30 PM – Session 6: Rituals\, Rites\, and Rights\nModerator: Karla Goldman\nPanelists: Vanessa Paloma Elba and Rachel Kranson \n4:00- 5:30 PM – Session 7: (Re)producing Judaism through Activism\nModerator: Melynda Price\nPanelists: Lisa Fishbayne-Joffe and Alice Mishkin
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-spring-conference-thinking-with-about-and-against-jewish-reproduction/
LOCATION:Michigan League – Koessler Room\, 911 N. UNIVERSITY AVE\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T200000
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event - 35th Annual David W. Belin Lecture with Joan Nathan
DESCRIPTION:5:15 PM – Pre-Lecture Reception\, 6:00 PM – Lecture\, 7:30 PM – Book Signing\nRSVP TO ATTEND HERE \nJoan Nathan is the author of twelve cookbooks including her latest work\, My Life in Recipes: Food\, Family\, and Memories. Her 2018 book\, King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary\nExploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World\, won the IACP International Cookbook of the Year. That same year\, the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America\, which in 1994 won both the James Beard Award and the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award\, was named an IACP classic. In 2022\, Nathan was included in the Forward 125: The American Jews who shaped our world. Nathan is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and Tablet Magazine. \n 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-35th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture-with-joan-nathan/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School – Assembly Room\, 915 WASHINGTON ST\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Communal Leadership Program,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T213000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: Wieseneck Symposium on Queer Israeli Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Gayle & Larry Wieseneck Symposium is an annual conference hosted by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies to explore various topics relating to Israel and to look at Israel in multiple contexts. This year\, the 2024-25 Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies\, themed “Queer/Trans/Jewish\,” is bringing in scholars from Canada\, Israel\, and all over the USA\, to examine the broad topic of Queer Israeli Culture. Come for just one session\, or stay the whole day! You especially don’t want to miss the evening’s finale: a special performance by spoken word artist Yossi Zabari (pictured) at 8:30 PM. \nSESSION 1: MINI-MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP – 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Lunch included for participants. RSVP HERE) \nShirly Bahar (Columbia)\, Yigal Nizri (University of Toronto)\, and Frankel Institute Head Fellow Bryan Roby\, will first analyze and discuss pre-circulated material and chapter excerpts. Please RSVP for this workshop to receive the recommended reading. In the second half of this workshop\, Institute Fellow Sivan Rajuan-Shtang and guest scholar Tamar Sella (University of North Texas) will present their working manuscripts for audience feedback. Lunch will be included for workshop participants. \nSESSION 2: ANTI-TRANS RHETORIC IN ISRAEL IN CONTEMPORARY & HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE – 3 – 4:45 PM \nTamar ben David (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)\, Iris Rachamimov (Frankel Institute)\, and Amal Ziv (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) gather for a Q&A roundtable discussion with symposium participants to discuss anti-trans rhetoric in Israel. \nSESSION 3: QUEER TEMPORALITY IN ARAB-JEWISH POETRY – 5:30 – 7:15 PM \nHow can cultural expression transcend spatial and temporal boundaries to reconnect with distant pasts? This panel with Frankel Institute Head Fellow Bryan Roby and Fellow Oren Yirmiya\, and guest scholar Tamar Sella (University of North Texas) explores how contemporary queer Mizrahi and Arab-Jewish artists with roots in Jewish communities of the Muslim world reimagine and manifest historical periods and geographical spaces through their creative work. Through analysis of poetry\, music\, and performance by artists including Igal Mizrahi\, Yossi Zabbari\, and Loren Milk\, the panelists examine how these creators bridge temporal and spatial distances to manifest seemingly impossible connections between past and present\, here and there. \nSESSION 4: SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE BY YOSSI ZABARI – 8:30 – 9:30 PM \nYossi Zabari is a writer and spoken word artist who has conquered the Internet time and again with viral videos that are catchier than the Black Plague. Zabari is also a theater actor\, stand-up comedian and proud gay father.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-wieseneck-symposium-on-queer-israeli-culture/
LOCATION:Rackham – East Conference Room\, 915 WASHINGTON ST\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event - Symposium on Critical Transgender Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2024-25 Frankel Institute Fellows for three panels featuring guest scholars from the USA\, Canada\, and Israel\, all exploring various intersections of their respective studies under this year’s theme\, “Queer/Trans/Jewish.” \nPlease RSVP for the conference here: https://forms.gle/LMxfURuR5vaKGAy97 \nPANEL 1: TRANS BEFORE THE “MODERN” – 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM\nModerated by Simone Stirner\, Panelists: Jessie deGrado\, Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University)\, Scott Larson\, Rafe Neis\, Max Strassfeld \nPanel participants will engage in a conversation on several themes at the intersection of transing\, asexuality\, and Judaic studies in the premodern era. Questions will include how studying the past can denaturalize modern-contemporary gender categories\, how transing as an approach is distinct from contemporary definitions of trans-ness\, and how a trans framework can help us problematize the category of modernity itself \nPANEL 2: TRANS EMBODIMENT IN MODERNITY – 1:30 – 3:30 PM\nModerated by Sheer Ganor\, Panelists: Rafael Balling\, Gil Engelstein\, and Shira Schwartz (Northwestern University) \nThis panel explores questions and debates that emerge at the axis of Jewish and trans experiences in the modern world. Reflecting through their research expertise and beyond\, speakers will discuss themes including visibility and its discontents\, linkages\, and tensions between trans and Jewish identities\, and the challenges that communities face in light of unprecedented attacks on trans people. \nPANEL 3: QUEER THEORY – 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nModerated by Rovel Sequiera\, Panelists: Adi Saleem and Amal Ziv
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-symposium-on-critical-transgender-studies/
LOCATION:Michigan League – Koessler Room\, 911 N. UNIVERSITY AVE\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T193000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event - Riv-Ellen Prell Guest Lecture\, "Jews\, the Academy\, and Antisemitism: How and What Should We Study?"
DESCRIPTION:Jews\, the Academy\, and Antisemitism: How and What Should We Study?\n\n\nGuest Lecturer: Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)\nPLEASE RSVP HERE: https://myumi.ch/qZ8XE \n\n\n\n\nAntisemitism on American campuses\, both before and following the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7\, 2023 is one of nation’s key polarizing issues\, acting as a magnet for virtually every political conflict. The current claims and counter-claims about campus antisemitism require far more careful analysis than is afforded by many of the current debates. \nI am interested in opening a conversation about these issues that will examine a broader understanding of the social field in which these debates are currently situated. Some of the components of the social field will include the complex history of Jews in American higher education\, the transformations in scholarship created by the political movements of the 1970s that have been both critical to creating the field of Jewish studies and contemporary theorizing of Israel and Palestine\, and the related political fight to define antisemitism\, including the partisans driving this fight outside of academia. \nFinally\, I will turn to recent survey research on Jewish and non-Jewish students’ attitudes and experiences on American campuses that reveals far more complex findings than anticipated by the sociologists who conducted the research. There is an urgent need for scholars to engage research about campus antisemitism with far greater nuance and assertiveness than currently exists. \nRiv-Ellen Prell\, an anthropologist\, is Emerita Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews\, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation and Prayer and Community: the Havurah in American Judaism. Among other works\, she has edited Women Remaking American Judaism. \nHer scholarly essays\, articles and reviews\, at the intersection of anthropology and history\, engage questions of how American Jewish cultures have been shaped by work\, family\, gender\, antisemitism\, and religious and cultural innovation. In 2017 she curated both a physical and digital exhibition “A Campus Divided: Progressives\, Anticommunists\, Racism and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota: 1920-1934.” The exhibition was the most widely attended in the University’s history\, which resulted in a student protest movement that called for major transformations in memorialization and priorities at the University of Minnesota. She continues work on digital and public history.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-riv-ellen-prell-guest-lecture-jews-the-academy-and-antisemitism-how-and-what-should-we-study/
LOCATION:Michigan League – Michigan Room\, 911 N University Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250311T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250311T183000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:U-M Raoul Wallenberg Institute Conversation Series - What are the driving forces behind hatred?
DESCRIPTION:What are the driving forces behind hatred?\nRaoul Wallenberg Conversation Series\, Co-Sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies\nThis panel discussion will highlight the connecting threads between forms of ethno-religious hatred\, like Islamophobia and antisemitism\, and examine the prospects for overcoming differences in pursuit of inclusive\, multiracial democracy \nPLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE: https://myumi.ch/kPwdz \nPanelists: \nEric K. Ward is a nationally recognized civil rights leader\, strategist\, and storyteller whose work bridges grassroots activism\, governance\, philanthropy\, and pop culture. As Executive Vice President of Race Forward\, he leads efforts to dismantle systemic racism and advance inclusive democracy. With nearly four decades of leadership\, Eric is known for addressing the intersections of authoritarianism\, hate violence\, and community resilience with clarity and innovation. \nWajahat Ali is a tired dad of 3 kids who drives a Honda Odyssey minivan\, shops at Costco\, and builds giant Lego sets to endure the growing tide of hate and fascism. He is currently the co-host of the America Unhinged show for Zeteo and Democracy-Ish. He writes for The Left Hook Substack. He is the lead investigative researcher and author of Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America published by the Center for American Policy. He also is the author of the play The Domestic Crusaders and the memoir Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Western States Center. \nAmy Spitalnick is the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs\, the national convener of Jewish coalitions working across communities to build a just and inclusive American democracy. She previously served as Executive Director of Integrity First for America\, which won its groundbreaking lawsuit against the neo-Nazis\, white supremacists\, and hate groups responsible for the Charlottesville violence. A nationally recognized expert on countering antisemitism\, hate\, and anti-democratic extremism\, Amy also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Tree of Life\, Bedrock\, and the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University. She has extensive experience in government\, politics\, and advocacy\, including as Communications Director and Senior Policy Advisor to the NY Attorney General and spokesperson and advisor to the New York City Mayor.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-raoul-wallenberg-institute-conversation-series-what-are-the-driving-forces-behind-hatred/
LOCATION:Kinesiology Auditorium\, 830 N. University Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T203000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
CREATED:20250116T202743Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Padnos Public Engagement Lecture on Jewish Learning: How Women Changed American Religion
DESCRIPTION:How Women Changed American Religion: A Jewish Perspective\n\n\n5th Annual Padnos Public Engagement Lecture on Jewish Learning\nGuest Speaker: Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) \n\n\nThe 2025 Padnos Lecture\, delivered by Professor Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) explores how American Judaism has been shaped by general societal expectations for women’s religious behavior and by new active roles Jewish women took on within their religious institutions. Major changes that took place included the restructuring of synagogue architecture with the removal of the women’s gallery\, the redefinition of community through women’s volunteerism\, and the introduction of women’s religious leadership\, which also challenged conventional theology. Historically and today\, American Judaism — in dialogue with American society and other models of religious practice — has constantly evolved and transformed in an effort to match the ever-moving target of gendered expectations for religious behavior and practice. \nDr. Goldman’s research focuses on the history of the American Jewish experience with special attention to the history of American Jewish communities and the evolving roles and contributions of American Jewish women. She directs the University of Michigan Jewish Communal Leadership Program\, a collaborative effort between the School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.\n\nRSVP here to attend: http://gvsu.edu/interfaith/padnos2025
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/5th-annual-padnos-public-engagement-lecture-on-jewish-learning-how-women-changed-american-religion/
LOCATION:Loosemoore Auditorium – Richard M. Devos Center\, Grand Valley State University\, 401 West Fulton Street\, Grand Rapids\, MI\, 49504-6431\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250218T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:Devotion & the Insatiable: An Artist Talk with Rudy Gerson
DESCRIPTION:Rudy Gerson is an artist and educator working across mediums of print\, still and moving image\, and performance. In this artist talk\, Rudy will share his practice\, which explores how the force of erotics is expressed in memory culture\, social life\, and historical inquiry. Recent film and video works will be screened and text works will be read. The talk will engage questions of sacredness and profanity and touch on queer poetics and the aesthetics of desire under conditions of opacity and loss.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/devotion-the-insatiable-an-artist-talk-with-rudy-gerson/
LOCATION:North Quadrangle Residential & Academic Complex\, 105 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250130T143000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:Frankel Center Guest Lecture: Tamar Menashe
DESCRIPTION:Bridging Legal Worlds: Jewish Women as Litigants before a German Imperial Supreme Court\nGuest Speaker: Tamar Menashe (Emory University)\nIn 1495\, Germany’s Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht) was founded as the institution that oversaw the adoption of Roman law as Germany’s imperial civil law. In 1511\, a Jewish woman named Elena\, who sued her husband and his lover for violating Jewish law (halakha)\, became the first Jewish litigant before this new tribunal\, opening the doors of the highest level of the imperial legal system to many Jews who would follow suit. Focusing on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries\, this lecture will explore the experiences of Jewish women who traversed legal and religious boundaries to litigate before this supreme imperial court and other competing imperial courts. This talk will consider previously untapped court cases from this period as invaluable sources for illuminating the lives of these women\, the ways in which they navigated Jewish\, imperial\, and local laws\, and how their litigation helped fashion Jews’ legal standing in the eyes of imperial jurists. \nTamar Menashe is the Jay and Leslie Cohen assistant professor in Emory University’s history department and the Tam institute for Jewish Studies. Menashe’s work focuses on the intersections of the law with gender\, culture\, and Christian-Jewish relations\, primarily in the German Lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She holds a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and MA\, Mphil and PhD from Columbia University (2022). Her dissertation “The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany\, 1495–1690” won the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. She is currently revising her dissertation for a publication as a book titled People of the Law: Jewish Litigation and Minority Belonging in Early Modern Germany. Prior to joining the Emory faculty in 2023\, Menashe was a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 2023 Preyer scholar of the American Society for Legal history and the 2023-2024 Gerald Westheimer Early Career Fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute New York-Berlin.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/frankel-center-guest-lecture-tamar-menashe/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:"Black Power\, Jewish Politics" Book Talk with Author Marc Dollinger
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 19  |  6:30 – 8 PM  |  2022 South Thayer Building \nBlack Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The Alliance In The 1960s\, Professor Dollinger’s most recent book\, takes a new and different look at Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement\, showing how American Jews leveraged the Black Power movement to increase Jewish ethnic and religious identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Join us as we explore never-before-seen historical documents that reveal a story that’s been hidden from view for over half a century. With so much contemporary interest in Black Lives Matter and larger questions of race and justice\, we’ll explore a fascinating and surprising Jewish past.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/black-power-jewish-politics-book-talk-with-author-marc-dollinger/
LOCATION:South Thayer Building\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241111T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241111T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:"A Contemporary Guide To Looking At Photographs" Artist Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 11  |  5 – 7 PM  |  Now Studios (715 N University Ave bsmt\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104) \nArtist: Elisheva Gavra \nIn a lecture-performance by artist Elisheva Gavra\, she will present images from her ongoing portrait photography series “Plates of Appearance” (2020-) The series depicts repeated appearances of the same character\, embodied by different sitters in each portrait. Through her project of visually capturing the elusive woman-type figure\, she will tell her story of how the practice of photography set her on a quest to achieve union with a bodiless\, featureless and footless presence. During the lecture\, Gavra will make a case for an artistic response to technology\, and demonstrate a practice of photography that offers a different way of engaging with the world. \n“Plates of Appearance” will be on display at Now Studios from November 11 – November 15. \nConversation about Bondage (2021)\, Elisheva Gavra
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/a-contemporary-guide-to-looking-at-photographs-artist-lecture/
LOCATION:Now Studios\, 715 N University Ave bsmt.\, Ann Arbor\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:"Dating Apps: Space of Vulnerability and Terror" Artist Discussion with 2FIK
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 7  |  5 – 7 PM  |  Now Studios \n\nIn this talk\, 2Fik will delve into the realm of dating apps\, self-representation\, and gender performance. Drawing from his 2021 artistic project\, “Romance ain’t dead\, 2Fik!\,” where he portrayed 100 characters on his own web-based dating app\, 2Fik will discuss the results of his exploration. He will share his experiences\, both online and during the eight-day live performance\, where he brought characters to life through face-to-face dates. This presentation will delve into the vulnerabilities and terrors of online dating\, prompting reflections on questions of authenticity\, performance\, self-perception\, and self-representation.\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/dating-apps-space-of-vulnerability-and-terror-artist-discussion-with-2fik/
LOCATION:Now Studios\, 715 N University Ave bsmt.\, Ann Arbor\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T181104
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SUMMARY:"Wild Burning Rage & Song: Replies to Scottsboro" Concert/Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 6  |  6 – 8 PM\, Doors at 5:30 PM | The Ark (316 S Main St\, Ann Arbor\, MI) \nAdmission: FREE \nPerformers: Amelia Glaser\, Heather Klein\, Anthony Russell\, and Uri Schreter \nThis concert/lecture brings to life a twentieth-century world of Jewish responses to the pervasive climate of race prejudice that gave birth to the Scottsboro trials—and injustices to come—through a performance of Yiddish and English poems from the era newly set to music. \nThe Scottsboro Trials stand among the most renowned miscarriages of justice in the history of American jurisprudence. Beginning in 1931 with a false accusation of rape against nine Black teenagers\, the case went on to invigorate a nascent Civil Rights movement\, earn the international support of the Communist Party\, and establish itself as a watchword among various strands of the American Left. It also inspired reaction from the contemporary world of arts and letters\, most famously by poets Langston Hughes and Richard Wright and novelist Harper Lee\, who adapted its events in To Kill a Mockingbird. \nThe international\, politically oriented Yiddish intelligentsia of the 1930s was no less galvanized\, producing a body of creative responses that passionately took up the themes of the trial\, juxtaposing its American injustices with diverse images\, tropes and language imbued with their own distinct histories of oppression. These writings are the basis of Wild Burning Rage and Song: Replies to Scottsboro. \nThis world premiere performance features Professor Amelia Glaser\, author of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP)\, composer/vocalists Heather Klein and Anthony Russell\, and composer/pianist Uri Schreter.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/wild-burning-rage-song-replies-to-scottsboro-concert-lecture/
LOCATION:The Ark\, Ann Arbor\, 316 S. Main St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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SUMMARY:Wieseneck and Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Spring Symposium\, “Mizrahi Studies at the Intersection”
DESCRIPTION:The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies is hosting the Wieseneck Symposum\, “Mizrahi Studies at the Intersection” on March 29-30 in the Michigan League’s Michigan Room. The symposium will be followed by a performance by Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen at 7pm on the 30th. \n \nImage: Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen’s Muima\, 2022 \n\nThis event is a part of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies theme year “Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity\,” led by co-head fellows Ruth Tsoffar\, U-M Professor of Comparative Literature\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and Judaic Studies\, and Ella Shohat\, professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. This theme year brings together thirteen scholars from three countries who will explore interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations on the meaning of ethnicity in the study of Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) culture. The group consists of a dynamic forum of scholars from a variety of disciplines aiming to reflect and further expand\, diversify\, and theorize the discussion of Jewish/Israeli society and culture. \nThis symposium aims at addressing some of the key issues raised by Mizrahi studies as conceptualized through a transnational\, transregional\, multidirectional\, and intersectional prism. Rather than producing a Mizrahi subject in isolation\, the symposium seeks to problematize any fixed understanding of Mizrahiness by highlighting the ways this concept is dynamically shaped by class\, race\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, religion\, nation\, and so forth. As such\, the symposium strives to illuminate Mizrahi studies as a critical field not simply about the Mizrahim but also about decolonization of knowledge. It hopes to interrogate established categories by asking what constitutes legitimate knowledge when ways of knowing may themselves have to be reconceptualized in a discursive climate saturated with hierarchical\, exclusionary\, and even violent assumptions? Some additional questions posed by the symposium include: Which methodological paradigms and epistemic frameworks enable the shaping of fragmented memories into a broader and more relational narrative? What kind of obstacles do scholars face in the process of carrying out research involving archival documentation and oral transmission\, when such data collection is entangled in histories of obscuring and silencing? What challenges does an academically normative discourse pose for those writing on subjects that touch on traumatic experiences and memories\, at once personal\, familial\, and communal? And what lessons could be learned from more self-reflexive research practices and coping strategies in terms of future scholarship. \nThe participants will also reflect on the symposium in a closed discussion on Friday\, March 31st at Rackham Graduate School. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the departments of Comparative Literature\, Middle East Studies\, Women’s Studies and Gender\, Institute for Research on Women & Gender\, and Anthropology. \n 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/wieseneck-and-frankel-institute-for-advanced-judaic-studies-spring-symposium-mizrahi-studies-at-the-intersection/
LOCATION:Michigan Legue\, 911 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221130T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221130T173000
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SUMMARY:Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Fall Symposium: “Mizrahi Studies at the Intersection: Rewriting Body\, Language\, and Cultural Memory”
DESCRIPTION:As an interdisciplinary formation\, the field of Mizrahi Studies has generated engaged scholarship that questions the ready-made paradigms of knowledge production. A critical strain has been key to shaping a cross-border Mizrahi epistemology\, performed in conversation with multiple fields such as ethnic and race studies\, gender studies\, cultural studies\, and post/colonial studies. Yet the intellectual home of Mizrahi studies remains fraught with ambiguities\, symptomatic of an in-between identity which does not always fit neatly into a single institutional space. The very name of the field\, “Mizrahi\,” exists in relation to other rubrics — Sephardis\, Arab Jews\, Jews from Muslim countries\, Middle Eastern Jews\, Asian and African Jews\, etc. — each suggesting different mappings and frames of reference. Although not necessarily mutually exclusive\, these diverse rubrics suggest the intricacies of a historically recent constructed identity and the multiple genealogies and orientations that mark this compelling area of inquiry. Critical Mizrahi scholars themselves\, as writing subjects\, have deepened the study of their own variegated communal stories and experiences across multiple geographies. \nThis symposium aims to address some of the key issues raised by Mizrahi studies as conceptualized through a transnational\, transregional\, multidirectional\, and intersectional prism. Rather than produce a Mizrahi subject in isolation\, the symposium will problematize any fixed understanding of Mizrahiness by highlighting the ways this concept is dynamically shaped by class\, race\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, religion\, nation\, and so forth. The symposium strives to illuminate Mizrahi studies as a critical field not simply about the Mizrahim but also about decolonization of knowledge. It hopes to interrogate established categories by asking what constitutes legitimate knowledge when ways of knowing may themselves have to be reconceptualized in a discursive climate saturated with hierarchical\, exclusionary\, and even violent assumptions? Some additional questions posed by the symposium include: Which methodological paradigms and epistemic frameworks enable the shaping of fragmented memories into a broader and more relational narrative? What kind of obstacles do scholars face in the process of carrying out research involving archival documentation and oral transmission\, when such data collection is entangled in histories of obscuring and silencing? What challenges does an academically normative discourse pose for those writing on subjects that touch on traumatic experiences and memories\, at once personal\, familial\, and communal? And what lessons could be learned from more self-reflexive research practices and coping strategies in terms of future scholarship. In sum\, this one-day symposium brings together a committed group of scholars working within the broadly construed field of Mizrahi studies\, while also reflecting on critical interventions in the field itself. \nSchedule:\nPanel I: 10:00- 12:00\nReframing Mizrahi Memory \nPanel II: 1:00- 3:00\nLanguage and Mizrahi Belonging in Translation \nPanel III: 3:30- 5:30\nDecolonizing the Mizrahi Body \nThis is a hybrid event.\nRackham East and West Conference Rooms\nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/wMPxz
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/frankel-institute-for-advanced-judaic-studies-fall-symposium-mizrahi-studies-at-the-intersection-rewriting-body-language-and-cultural-memory/
LOCATION:East and West Conference Rooms Rackham Graduate School\, 915 WASHINGTON ST\, Ann Arbor\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221108T120000
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SUMMARY:New on the Mizrahi Bookshelf: Meet the Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Merav Alush-Levron\, Inbal Blau\, Yali Hashash\, Noa Hazan\, Naphtaly Shem-Tov \n \nThe interdisciplinary field of Mizrahi studies covers a wide array of issues\, approaches\, and methodologies\, illuminating in compellingly diverse ways the intricacies of the Mizrahi experience. This hybrid panel brings together scholars who published invaluable books over the past year\, thus contributing to the expansion of knowledge about the historical\, cultural\, and socio-political dimensions of the Mizrahi experience. The authors will present their new texts\, while also participating in a conversation with the audience about the significant issues raised by their books and the intellectual dialogue they hope to generate. Offering insight into this vital scholarly landscape\, the panel also aims to give a sense of the challenges faced by critical scholars engaging the Mizrahi story within fresh perspectives. \nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/7e8NN
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/new-on-the-mizrahi-bookshelf-meet-the-scholars/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221103T150000
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Lecture - Josh Lambert
DESCRIPTION:“Can a Literary Mafia Affect Your Choice of Books?”: Jews\, Publishing\, and American Literature\nJosh Lambert\, Wellesley College\n  \n \nIn the 1960s and 1970s\, many American authors\, Jewish and non-Jewish alike\, complained about a “Jewish literary mafia.” While perniciously circulating antisemitic ideas\, such claims also reflected the remarkable success of Jews in the U.S. publishing industry. How did Jews’ roles in publishing influence the development of American literature? How can attention to this story help to produce a more equitable industry now? \nThis is a hybrid event. Register for the virtual stream here: https://myumi.ch/kyJmr \nJosh Lambert is the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English\, and director of the Jewish Studies Program\, at Wellesley College. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard and his doctorate at the University of Michigan\, and before Wellesley he taught at NYU\, UMass Amherst\, and Princeton\, and served as the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center. His books include Unclean Lips: Obscenity\, Jews\, and American Culture (2014) and\, co-edited with Ilan Stavans\, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (2020).
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-lecture-josh-lambert/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221101T210000
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SUMMARY:Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Lecture: “Remnants of a Mighty Nation”: Jews Through the Eyes of American Christians
DESCRIPTION:Julian Levinson\, Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies\, University of Michigan \n \nThe Stuart and Barbara Padnos Foundation has provided a gift to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies to establish the Padnos Engagement on Jewish Learning fund. The initiative\, which commenced last year\, will facilitate annual public educational activities in Jewish Studies throughout the State of Michigan with a focus on the western part of the state. \nThe Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event\, to take place on November 1 at 7 pm\, will feature Dr. Julian Levinson\, Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies\, University of Michigan. Dr. Levinson will present a lecture called “’Remnants of a Mighty Nation’: Jews Through the Eyes of American Christians” at the Loosemore Auditorium at the Richard M. Devos Center on Grand Valley State University’s Campus. The event will also be virtually simulcast via Zoom. Immediately following the lecture at approximately 8:30 there will be a light reception in the adjacent Lubbers Exhibition Hall. \nDr. Levinson prefaces his discussion: “What is it like to belong to a religious minority? For Jews in the United States\, there have been countless challenges as well as unexpected benefits from living among a Christian majority. While some individual Christians have been highly critical of Jews for their beliefs and practices\, others have been deeply respectful of Jews for being the original “chosen people\,” for preserving the Hebrew language\, and for maintaining traditions going back to the Bible. This talk will focus on the ways Jews were perceived in nineteenth-century America\, when the origins of present-day Christian-Jewish relations were established. It will trace the formation of views that are still prevalent today\, including the evangelical fascination with Israel. It will also consider how Jews have shaped their own identities in relation to the broader Christian environment.” \nThis is a hybrid lecture.\nLoosemore Auditorium\, DeVos Center\, Grand Valley State University\nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/DJN9M
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/padnos-public-engagement-on-jewish-learning-lecture-remnants-of-a-mighty-nation-jews-through-the-eyes-of-american-christians/
LOCATION:Loosemoore Auditorium – Richard M. Devos Center\, Grand Valley State University\, 401 West Fulton Street\, Grand Rapids\, MI\, 49504-6431\, United States
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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