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Prof. Michael Hoberman · Imagining Early American Jews
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Imagining Early American Jews looks at how early Jewish American history (from the colonial period to the Civil War) has been popularized and mythologized. As attitudes toward the more troubling and fraught aspects of that history have changed, the stories that we used to tell about the Jews who fought in the American Revolution, se... Read more
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Jannie Dresser · The Jewish Leonard Cohen
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A Jew raised in a predominantly Protestant section of mostly Catholic Montreal, Leonard Cohen understood "outsiderness" as well as community. From a family of Torah scholars and synagogue founders, he even used the synagogue's choir on his last album. Yet, Leonard was a maven of world religions, especially as they pointed to the majesty and wonder of human life and provided rich imagery for his songs. In this class, we will focus on Leonard's Jewish identity and themes with a nod toward his... Read more
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Robert Alter in Conversation · Approaching the 45th Anniversary of "The Art of Biblical Narrative"
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In partnership with Limmud North America • Global Day of Jewish Learning 
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Daniela Naomi Molnar in Conversation with Julie Carr · PROTOCOLS: An Erasure
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In partnership with the Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world’s most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language.
By redacting words from the original document, Molnar created a book-length poem that breathes space and light into a text dense with hatred. She patiently uncovers the questi... Read more
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Robby Adler Peckerar & Natan Kuchar · Holy Spirits: Ecstatic Joy and the Wine of Torah
In partnership with Limmud North America • Global Day of Jewish Learning and the Piedmont Jewish Community
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Jane Eisner · Carole King: She Made the Earth Move
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In partnership with the Jewish Community Library and Yale University Press' Jewish Lives Series
In her book, Jane Eisner traces the professional accomplishments and personal challenges of pop icon Carole King, exploring her unique contributions to American culture. In this talk, she will offer a behind-the-scenes look at King's fascinating life story and why her music still resonates today.
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Jacob Kodner · Language Keepers: Judeo-Kashani
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In partnership with our Co-Sponsor • HUC Jewish Language Project
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Erich Gruen · Jewish Identity in the World of Pagan Antiquity
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Jews in the ancient world were everywhere a subordinate people, a footnote or afterthought in the grand sweep of history featured by the empires of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. How did Jews conceive of their own place in this larger world? And how were they perceived by the greater powers? Did Jews see themselves as a distinctive people apart or as somehow participants in a broader society and culture? This class consists of four lectures tha... Read more
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Rev. Bruce Bramlett · Antisemitism: The Dynamics and History of the “Longest Hatred”
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This course tracks the historical development of antisemitism in Western civilization from the Greco-Roman period to its present resurgence throughout the West. We will discuss the nature of antisemitic prejudice, constructions, and concepts of race, the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and the ongoing reality of Jew-hatred as a recurring phenomenon. Together, we will work to understand the sources of antisemitism’s post-Holocaust resurgence, paying close attention to cur... Read more
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Outsider. Freud: Film Screening and Panel Discussion—SOLD OUT
In partnership with Magnes Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
A screening of the landmark documentary Outsider. Freud followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker Yair Qedar; distinguished expert Dr. Harriet Wolfe, immediate past president of the International Psychoanalytical Association; and New Lehrhaus executive director, Robby Adler Peckerar, Ph.D.
Through an intimate lens, the... Read more
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Jehon Grist · Reading the Bible: Tricksters and the Art of Deception
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Tricksters in the Hebrew Bible break the rules. Sometimes they're outsiders or underdogs trying to gain an advantage. Sometimes they try to right a wrong. And on occasion, the trickster may be God. Our class will explore this theme, starting with the trickster motif in neighboring ancient cultures. Then we'll move on to some of the most famo... Read more
