Thayer Building – Room 2022

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Ann Arbor, MI 48104 United States Get Directions

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  • U-M Frankel Center Event – Hila Amit Guest Lecture

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    Thayer Building - Room 2022 202 South Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Queer Belongings and the Jewish “Homeland”: Israeli and Jewish American Lives Between Home and Away Dr. 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. Through a blend of fiction and academic inquiry, Amit examines the ways queer Jewish lives […]

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  • Frankel Center Guest Lecture: Tamar Menashe

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    Thayer Building - Room 2022 202 South Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Bridging Legal Worlds: Jewish Women as Litigants before a German Imperial Supreme Court Guest Speaker: Tamar Menashe (Emory University) In 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 […]

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  • UM Frankel Center Lecture – Josh Lambert

    Thayer Building - Room 2022 202 South Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    "Can a Literary Mafia Affect Your Choice of Books?": Jews, Publishing, and American Literature Josh Lambert, Wellesley College   In 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 […]

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