The Program in Jewish Studies is delighted to host a variety of exciting events this 2021- 2022 academic year. 

Spring Events - 2022

  • January - International Holocaust Remembrance Day Speaker: Dr. Willa Johnson (University of Mississippi), author of Through An Artist’s Eyes: The Dehumanization and Racialization of Jews and Political Dissidents during the Third Reich, 1933-1942
  • February - Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar: Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed (New York University), author of Demons, Angels, and Writ­ing in Ancient Judaism
  • March - Hebrew Schmooze-a-Palooza
  • April - Holocaust, Genocide, and Contemporary Bioethics Speaker: Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD (American Medical Association), Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President

All events are supported by the David Shneer Fund for Community Programming, Public Scholarship, and the Arts

Previous Events 2021-2022

Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Contemporary Klezmer Music & Yiddish Song

A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Zoë Aqua and Adah Hetko and Professor Yonatan Malin
Monday, September 20, 2021 

Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Traditional Klezmer Music

A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Cookie Segelstien and Josh Horowitz and Professor Yonatan Malin
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 

Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Middle Eastern/North African Jewish Poetic Songs (Piyyutim)—From Pulpit to Pop Chart 

A Conversation/Performance with Dr. Galeet Dardashti and Professor Yonatan Malin
Thu, Dec 02, 2021 

Israel/Palestine Series

Hilary Falb Kalisman, Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies at CU Boulder, in conversation with Ahmed Mansour & Dan Chyutin on the relationship between the United States, Israel, & Palestine.
Monday, October 18