The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

• "Nationalism and Its Discontents: Jewish Visions of Pluralism in Central Europe, 1850s-1930s"

September 17, 2024

Till van Rahden, Université de Montréal

• "Physicians, The Diffusion of Medical Knowledge, and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe"

October 15, 2024

Andrew Berns, University of South Carolina

• "Confession Booths, Human Zoos, and Adolf Eichmann: Presenting Jews in Berlin" 

November 12, 2024

Yaniv Feller, University of Florida

• "The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis"

September 12, 2023

Miriam Goldstein, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• "Interdisciplinary Exploration of Post-Holocaust History through Digital Tools: Opportunities and Limitations"

October 24, 2023

Ildikó Barna, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest

• "Between the Public and the Communal: Depictions of Sabbatian Spaces in the Late Ottoman Era" 

November 14, 2023

Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University

• "Pedagogy, Language, and Labor Politics in Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks"

September 13, 2022

Na'ama Rokem, University of Chicago

• "Ifra Hormiz: Talmudic Stories of the Persian Queen Mother and the Bavli's Redaction"

October 25, 2022

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Ben-Gurion University

• "A Jewish Bill of Indictment: The New York Black Book of 1946"

November 8, 2022

Elisabeth Gallas, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture-Simon Dubnow

• "The Precedents and Origin of Djerba's Or Torah Fund"

January 24, 2023

Joshua Picard, Princeton University

• "Do Citizens Need to be Philosophers? Nachman Krochmal’s Diasporic Jewish Politics"

February 14, 2023

Elias Sacks, Jewish Publication Society

March 14, 2023

Jordan Katz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

April 25, 2023

Sven-Erik Rose, University of California, Davis

• "Métis, Jews, and the Politics of Counting Difference in Canada"

September 14, 2021

David Koffman, York University

• "Two Steps from the Abyss: An Ottoman Jewish Witness to War"

October 12, 2021

Devi Mays, University of Michigan

• "Babyn Yar 80 Years Later: New Findings, Areas of Dispute, and Remaining Questions"

November 16, 2021

Martin Dean, Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

• "Soul Food and Salvation in Medieval Ashkenaz: the Ambrosian Bible's 'Heavenly Banquet' Revisited"

January 18, 2022

David Shyovitz, Northwestern University

• "From the 'Wretched' to the 'Bourgeoisie': Jews in Modern Iran"

February 15, 2022

Daniella Farah, Rice University

March 15, 2022

Shira Billet, Yale University

April 12, 2022

Kim Wünschmann, Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg

• "From the Left and the Right: Campus Antisemitism and American Jewish Life"

September 22, 2020

Marc Dollinger, San Francisco State University

• "God's Disability: Confronting the 'Euthanasia' Murders"

October 27, 2020

Dagmar Herzog, the Graduate Center at CUNY

• "Riddling Materiality: the Queen of Sheba, Solomon, and Riddles in Ninth-Century Tradition"

November 17, 2020

Jillian Stinchcomb, Brandeis University

• "Jerusalem's Ancient Queens: Gender, Power, and Erasure"

February 23, 2021

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham University

• "The Global Merchants: the World of the Sassoons"

March 23, 2021

Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University

April 20, 2021

Noam Sienna, University of Minnesota

• "The 'Question of the Pogroms' in a Paris Courtroom in the 1920s: the Trial of Sholem Schwartzbard"

September 17, 2019

Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College

• "Mobility: Jewish Migration from Lithuania Before 1880"

November 19, 2019

Tobias Brinkmann, Penn State University

• "Envisioning a Jewish Monastic Community: Zalman Schachter, Catholicism, and the B'nai Or Fellowship"

December 10, 2019

Or Rose, Hebrew College

• "The Trouble with Medieval Conversion: Christendom and Christian Anxiety about Jewish Conversion"

January 21, 2020

Nina Caputo, University of Florida

• "The Return of the Corporation: Recent Israeli Conversion Cases and American Debates about Religious Freedom"

February 25, 2020

Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University

• "'A mouth as round as a signet- ring'; A Gendered Reading of Jewelry in the Medieval Islamicate Society and Culture"

March 17, 2020 (Canceled)

Miriam Frenkel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

April 21, 2020 (Canceled)

Dagmar Herzog, the Graduate Center - CUNY

• "Wittgenstein's Moses: Reference, Identity and an Embarrassing Confession"

October 9, 2018

Abraham Socher, Jewish Review of Books

• "The Outsider: Benzion Netenyahu and the Politics of Resentment"

November 6, 2018

Adi Armon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• "Rabbinic Narratives and the Problem of Non-Compliance in the Babylonian Talmud"

December 4, 2018

Lynn Kaye, Brandeis University

• "A Crip Zionism? Jessie Sampter, Disability, and Gender in the Yishuv"

January 29, 2019

Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University - Bloomington

• "Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, and Social Justice"

March 12, 2019

Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University

• "The Crisis of the American Jewish Intellectual: Marxism, God, and Jewish Identity in the 1940s"

April 9, 2019

Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin - Madison