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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 

Dr. Galeet Dardashti

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 Film Event

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

Willa M. Johnson

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. 

Students at Research Showcase

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.

2020-2021

samira mehta

Eco-Kashrut: Food, Jews, and Justice

Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women and Gender Studies 

Thursday, July 23, 2020

David Shneer

Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph – A Conversation With David Shneer

David Shneer, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History z"l

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Nan Goodman

Jewish Messianic Heresy and the Right to Privacy: Louis Brandeis and the Sabbatian Origins of an American Legal Doctrine

Nan Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies and English 

Monday, September 14, 2020

Rhona Seidelman

Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate

Rhona Seidelman Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Weeam Hammoudeh

"The End of the Tunnel is Dark": Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic Under Occupation

Weeam Hammoudeh Assistant Professor, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Kalisman

Peak to Peak Series

Exams in Extremis: Standardized Testing, Politics, and Crisis in the Middle East

Hilary Falb Kalisman, Assistant Professor of History and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Professor Yonatan Malin

Peak to Peak Series

Klezmer Music as Jewish Dialogue and Jewish Discourse

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies

Monday, December 14, 2020 

Professor Bruce Haynes

2021 Sondra and Howard Bender Scholar

Judaism and the Black Experience

Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Between Darkness and Light Marc Chagall

Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program

Then and Now: Courage, Complicity and Compromise

Rebecca Carter-Chand, PhD, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Susannah Sirkin, M.Ed, Physicians for Human Rights
In Partnership with CU Anschutz’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities

April 6, 2021

Rebecca Wartell

Peak to Peak Series

"Better Widowed than Married”: Conversa Women in Early Modern Europe

Rebecca Wartell, Instructor in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Monday, May 24th, 2021

the star of redemption

Rosenzweig for the Contemporary Moment: A (Zoom) Roundtable Celebration of Star of Redemption’s 100th Anniversary

Co-facilitators: Elias Sacks and Sarah Pessin
Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Martin Kavka, Randi Raskhover, and Larisa Reznik

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

2019-2020

Person playing a violin

Klezmer Concert with Veretski Pass

Headshot of Professor Hilary Falb Kalisman

New Frontiers in Israel/Palestine Studies

Black and white photo of a group of children camp-goers reading from their prayer books. In the right corner, a man in all white appears to be leading everyone.

Jews Out West: 4th Biannual Embodied Judaism Symposium

Headshot of Professor Edward Westermann

Holocaust Remembrance Day

David Koffman Photograph

2020 Bender Visiting Scholar

2018-2019

Still image of the prince and the dybbuk in the movie, "The Dybbuk"

Film Screening: The Dybbuk (1937)

Headshot of Professor Beverly Weber

Refugees: Sanctuary, Hospitality, and Solidarity

Illustration of Forverts readers on a subway

How the Forverts is Being Transformed in the Digital Era

Professor Sam Berrin Shonkoff

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

Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird

Concert with Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird

Professor Wendy Lower

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

Jewish workers sorting through books in Vilna (image from YIVO)

The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto

Cupcakes with white icing dusted with gold sprinkles. Cupcakes are lined in a row.

Jeffersonian Dessert Party with Program in Jewish Studies and Boulder JCC

Headshot of Irena Klepfisz, poet and professor

Yiddish, English, or Maybe Both with Irena Klepfisz

Professor Daniel Matt, Kabbalah scholar

From Kabbalah to the Big Bang with Daniel Matt

Headshot of Mara Benjamin posing in front of a bush/tree

Annual CU-DU Week of Jewish Philosophy with Mara Benjamin

Photo by Keith Dannemiller

Medicine & Morality in Times of War

2017-2018

Does God Make Mistakes? Sun and clouds

Does God Make Mistakes? Peak to Peak Lecture with Prof. Elias Sacks

Headshot of Professor Brian Catlos

Jewish Pride and Muslim Prejudice in 11th-Century Islamic Spain

Photo of Alicia Svigals performing her score to The Yellow Ticket - Photo by Chris Randle

The Yellow Ticket Film Screening & Live Film Score Performance

Photo of leaflets, brochures, etc. from the Richard Campbell Collection housed in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at CU Boulder

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Graduate Fellow Symposium

SHE Embodied Judaism logo

SHE: Third Biannual Embodied Judaism Symposium & Exhibit

Professor Michael Rothberg, UCLA

Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance

Author and Journalist Ariel Sabar

An Evening with Ariel Sabar

Students performing on stage, mics in hand, during the 2017 Hebrew Schmooze-A-Palooza

2018 Hebrew Schmooze-A-Palooza

Fernandes family, Suriname ca. 1908. At center are Isaac Daniel Fernandes, a Portuguese Jew from a planter family, and Klasina Elisabeth Vroom, descended from a family of manumitted slaves. Surrounding them are their eight children and a daughter-in-law. Courtesy of the Fernandes-Vroom family.

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society

Arrival at Terezin - Helga Weissova

Holocaust Remembrance Week 2018

Photographer Laurence Salzmann

In Search of Turkey's Jews

Professor Martin Kavka

Is Messianic Hope Worthwhile? The Case of Jacob Taubes

2016-2017

Does God Make Mistakes? Sun and clouds

"Does God Make Mistakes? Should God Repent?" Inaugural Peak to Peak Lecture with Prof. Elias Sacks

Coffee

Annual Jewish Studies Student Meet and Greet

Oriented

Film Screening: Oriented

Temple Aaron

"False Jewish Messiah or Puritan Hero?" Peak to Peak Lecture with Prof. Nan Goodman

The Band's Visit

Student Movie Night: "The Band's Visit"

Rachel Gordan

"Becoming the Third Faith Through American Celebrity": Rachel Gordan, 2016 Jim and Diane Shneer Fellow

Sephardic food

"What is Sephardic Food?" Cooking Demonstration with Professor Nancy Sternbach

Professor Nils Roemer

"The Holocaust: Then and Now, Spanning the Void"

Siegel Marching

Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich

Professor Nan Goodman

The Puritans: Heirs to the Hebrew Bible

Professor Matt Goldish from Ohio State University

1492: Columbus, the Jews, and the Messiah in Spain

Harvard Professor Samuel Moyn

Religion and Human Rights After the 2016 Election

Professor Sam Boyd

Magic, the Bible, and the Biblical Imagination in Jewish Mysticism

David Shneer - Legalizing 2nd Class Citizenship

Legalizing 2nd Class Citizenship

Med Seminar Seal

Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2017 Workshop

Jewish doctors photographed in Vienna

Agency in the Midst of Oppression: Jewish Doctors, Ghettos, and Public Health

2015-2016

Sayed Kashua

“The Foreign Mother Tongue: Writing between Arabic and Hebrew in Israel/Palestine,” Public Lecture with Sayed Kashua

Jonathan Brent

"The Broken World of Isaac Babel,” Public Lecture with Jonathan Brent

Riv-Ellen Prell

“Race and the Terrain of Liberalism in Intensive Jewish Summer Camps in the 1960s and 1970s,” Riv-Ellen Prell

1969 Freedom Seder

"Freedom Seder: American Judaism and Social Justice" Second biannual Embodied Judaism Symposium and Exhibit

Big Ben

Mini-Conference on Jews and Jewishness in Britain

Naomi Seidman

"Tevye's Dream, Or How Traditional Marriage Haunts Modern Romance," Public Lecture with Naomi Seidman

Second Annual Hebrew Shmooze-A-Palooza 2016

Second Annual Hebrew Shmooze-A-Palooza 2016

Poster Image

"Emmanuel Levinas on Ethics & the Holocaust," Seminar with Michael Morgan

2014-2015

Devin Naar

They Threw Our Bones into the Sea: Devin Naar

2013-2014

Shaul Magid

Sondra D. Bender Visiting Scholar: Shaul Magid

Gary Shteyngart

Little Failure: Gary Shteyngart

Natascha Drubek

Media Wars and the Invisible Holocaust: Natascha Drubek

Almog Behar

Between Jewish Liturgy, Arab Music and Israeli Hebrew: Almog Behar

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Embodied Judaism: The Sound of Ecstacy

2012-2013

David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair

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

Nathan Englander

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

Deborah Lipstadt

The Eichmann Trial: Deborah Lipstadt

Rabbi Leah Novick

On the Wings of the Shekhinah: Rabbi Leah Novick

Howard Schwartz

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

2011-2012

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, Dr. Chava Weissler, and Rabbi Or Rose

Gal Beckerman

When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone: Gal Beckerman

Paula Fredriksen

Augustine and the Jews: Paula Fredriksen

Cantor Jalda Rebling

Yiddish Behind The Iron Curtain: Cantor Jalda Rebling

Jay Michaelson

Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism: Jay Michaelson

2010-2011

Robert Atler

Launch of the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection: Robert Atler

Sarah Benor

Speak Jewish?: Sarah Benor

Bar Kochba Coin

Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism: Menachem Mor

Elissa Barrett

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

2009-2010

Carol Zemel

Radical Artists: Jewish Art in Diaspora: Carol Zemel

Yael Kanerak

Untitled (L’Origine): Yael Kanerak

Daniel Itzkovitz

Obama, Sarah Silverman and Black-Jewish Relations: Daniel Itzkovitz

Rachel Havrelock

River Jordan: Myth of a Dividing Line: Rachel Havrelock

Pamela Eisenbaum

Paul Was Not a Christian: Pamela Eisenbaum

From Rebel to Rabbi by Matthew Hoffman

From Rebel to Rabbi: Matthew Hoffman

Yuri Lane

Hip Hop Sulha: Y-Love, Diwon, Yuri Lane and Sharif Ezzat

2008-2009

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