Past Events

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

2022 Holocaust Remembrance Day

Dr. Willa M. Johnson
Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization & Racialization of Jews & Political Dissidents During the Third Reich
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Sondra & Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture

Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed 
Evil Spirits, Wayward Stars, and Scribal Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity 
Thursday, February 24, 2022

2022 Virtual Schmooze-A-Palooza

Each year, the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder presents a music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public. During the past two years of social distancing, we have gathered together virtually to explore the Hebrew language, build community, and make memories. This year, we came together online to sing the classic Israeli song “Ha-yeladim Koftzim” (by Roi Levy and Avraham Tal of Shotei Hanevu’ah). 

The American Jewish Experience in Medicine Program

The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Medical Racism and the American Jewish Experience on April 25, 2022. The program included presentations and discussions with Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Barron H. Lerner, Gregg Drinkwater, PhD, Alan M. Kraut, PhD, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and Shanta M. Zimmer, MD.

Holocaust, Genocide & Contemporary Bioethics Program

The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Legacies of the Holocaust and Health Equity Today with Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, on April 26, 2022. The event was moderated by CBH Director, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, with opening remarks by Chancellor of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Don Elliman. Dr. Maybank is the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading its Center for Health Equity. This was the keynote presentation for the 2022 Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program. 

2022 Undergraduate Student Research Showcase

Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. Students presented their work at a research showcase in April 2022.

Film Screening: The Dybbuk (1937)

Refugees: Sanctuary, Hospitality, and Solidarity

How the Forverts is Being Transformed in the Digital Era

2018 Shneer Fellowship in Post-Holocaust American Judaism: Professor Sam Berrin Shonkoff

Concert with Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird

From Witness to Perpetrator: The Active Role of Nazi Women in the Holocaust

The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto

Jeffersonian Dessert Party with Program in Jewish Studies and Boulder JCC

Yiddish, English, or Maybe Both with Irena Klepfisz

From Kabbalah to the Big Bang with Daniel Matt

Annual CU-DU Week of Jewish Philosophy with Mara Benjamin

Medicine & Morality in Times of War

They Threw Our Bones into the Sea: Devin Naar

Inauguration of the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Nathan Englander

The Eichmann Trial: Deborah Lipstadt

On the Wings of the Shekhinah: Rabbi Leah Novick

How the Ari Created a Myth and Transformed Judaism: Howard Schwartz

Launch of the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection: Robert Atler

Speak Jewish?: Sarah Benor

Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism: Menachem Mor

Smashing the Idols: Rabbi Yisorel Wilhelm, Rabbi Victor Gross, Orly Halpern & Elissa Barrett

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