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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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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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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T173000
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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
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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:20250916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T180000
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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:20250130T130000
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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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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220922T120000
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event – Todd Endelman
DESCRIPTION:A Jewish Race Scientist in Twentieth-Century Britain\nTodd M. Endelman\, Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies\, University of Michigan\n \nThis lecture will explore how Redcliffe Salaman\, an eminent Jewish scientist in early twentieth-century Britain\, embraced a racial understanding of Jewish peoplehood and how he developed a biological history of the Jews. It will emphasize the ubiquity of racial notions of physical and intellectual inheritance in scientific circles in Britain before World War II. Above all\, it will stress how racial categories allowed secular Jewish intellectuals in Britain (and elsewhere) to develop ways of thinking about the bonds of Jewishness that transcended older notions that saw Jewish difference solely in religious terms. It will also tease out the connections between Salaman’s views of Jewishness and his pathbreaking work breeding blight-free potatoes. \nThis is a hybrid lecture in Room 2022 South Thayer Building. Zoom registration: https://myumi.ch/RWNV4 \nTodd M. Endelman is Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. A native of California\, he was educated at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and Harvard University\, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976. He is a specialist in the history of the Jews in Britain and in the social history of modern European Jewry. He taught at Yeshiva University\, Indiana University\, and the University of Michigan. While at Michigan\, he was director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for eleven years. He retired from teaching in 2012 and now divides his time between Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and Brooklyn\, New York. His books include The Jews of Georgian England\, 1714-1830 (1979); Radical Assimilation in Anglo-Jewish History\, 1656-1945 (1990); The Jews of Britain\, 1656-2000 (2002); Broadening Jewish History (2014); and Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (2015). He recently completed a biography of the Anglo-Jewish race scientist\, country gentleman\, and historian of the potato Redcliffe Salaman.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-todd-endelman/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:The Society of Savage Jews: The Politics of Jewish Primitivism
DESCRIPTION:Samuel J. Spinner\n \n\n\n\n\nThe unlikely poetic relationship between the German poet Else Lasker-Schüler and the Yiddish and Hebrew poet Uri Zvi Grinberg spans the political range of Jewish primitivism from the bohemian left to the radical right. Aesthetic primitivism catalyzed Lasker-Schüler’s poetry and visual art and is most strikingly evident in the “Society of Savage Jews\,” a utopian community of writers and artists that existed only in her writings and artwork; Grinberg borrowed this trope and used it for very different ends—his savage Jews were Zionist pioneers\, creating a nation-state. This lecture will explore the aesthetic and political flexibility of Jewish primitivism\, showing how it could marshal the same aesthetics in pursuit of opposing politics. \nHybrid Event\nSouth Thayer Building Room 2022\nRegister for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/844Z6 \nSamuel Spinner is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language\, Literature\, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His book Jewish Primitivism\, on primitivism in modern Jewish literature\, photography\, and graphic art\, was published in July 2021 by Stanford University Press. He is currently researching a book on the aesthetics of monumentality in Holocaust museums and literature. His work has appeared in PMLA\, MLN\, Prooftexts\, and German Quarterly. Spinner is a co-editor of “German Jewish Cultures\,” a book series published by Indiana University Press and serves as an editor of the Yiddish Studies journal In Geveb.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/the-society-of-savage-jews-the-politics-of-jewish-primitivism/
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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SUMMARY:Is Spinoza Still Salient? Are the Rabbis Really Relevant? Thinking in the Era of Instrumentalized Knowledge-Making
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gilah Klentenik and Dr. Rachel Rafael Neis\n\n\n\n\n\nThe pressure to produce scholarship that’s relevant and publicly engaged comes as a welcome reproach and corrective to the elitism and insulation of academia. Yet\, what is the cost of such a product-driven mindset with its embeddedness in market ideologies and neoliberal deliverables? How do the logics that subsidize this “Western” enterprise marginalize divergent voices and sideline alternative methods? Turning to the rabbis of late antiquity and early modern Spinoza\, opens us to seeing our particular academic enterprises and\, more broadly still\, the state of being human\, differently. This dares us to consider: what might it mean to think in the absence of teleology\, anthropocentrism\, and their supremacist rationales? \nRegister for the Zoom stream here: https://myumi.ch/y99w4 \nGilah Kletenik\, a scholar of philosophy and Jewish thought\, and Rafe Neis\, an historian of ancient Judaism\, come together to talk about teleology\, being human\, and the possibilities for meaning-making.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/is-spinoza-still-salient-are-the-rabbis-really-relevant-thinking-in-the-era-of-instrumentalized-knowledge-making/
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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