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. Stay tuned for more details!
The Media of Holocaust Memory Special Guests: Todd Presner, Laura Levitt, Moderator: Cara Rock-Singer How 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 […]
Overlapping Jurisdictions: How Islamic Courts Upheld Jewish Law in Colonial Egypt Tuesday, November 18 from 5:00 – 6:30 PM Room 2022, South Thayer Building Special Guest: Samy Ayoub, Moderator: Aaron Rock-Singer RSVP: https://myumi.ch/e315y This special lecture by Samy Ayoub and moderated by Aaron Rock-Singer will argue that legal pluralism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt […]