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Near to the Wild Heart: Reading the Mystical World of Clarice Lispector

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Julia Kornberg

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Jews in Baseball, or Why Sandy and Hank Wouldn't Play

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Instructor

Harry Radousky

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Reading Biblical Texts · The King David Phenomenon

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Instructor

Jehon Grist

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Doikayt, or "hereness" in Yiddish, has recently emerged as a central concept for Jewish critics of Zionism and proponents of Diaspora Nationalism. While many cite its historical importance to the Jewish Labor Bund, the true origins of the term remain widely misunderstood. This online lecture exploring Jewish political history presents new research into the roots of the Bundist ideology. We will propose an alternative origin for doikayt that challenges modern interpretations and forces a ret... Read more

Instructor

Michael Casper

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Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Gustav Landauer

Virtual Program

Instructor

Robby Adler Peckerar

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Vanity of Vanities: Meaninglessness from Ecclesiastes to Today

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Instructor

Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

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Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: No State Solution

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

Instructor

Daniel Boyarin

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Borges for Beginners

Virtual Program

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges never wrote a novel, yet his short stories, essays, poems, and lectures inspired generations, from Gabriel García Márquez to Paul Auster, W.G. Sebald, and Benjamín Labatut. He remains a central figure in literary history, and his works continue to spark new ideas and interpretations.

In this class, we will explore his essential works, beginning with the classic stories "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "The Aleph... Read more

Instructor

Julia Kornberg

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Reading Yiddish Texts: The Yiddish Stage • Classic One-Act Plays

Virtual Program

Step into the vibrant world of early twentieth-century Yiddish theater while advancing your language skills through the dramatic works of Peretz Hirschbein, Chaver Paver, and Sholem Aleichem. This six-session online course uses classic one-act plays as a rich linguistic resource, where dialogue reveals the rhythms of spoken Yiddish and dramatic texts illuminate idiomatic expression, cultural context, and the textures of Eastern European Jewish life.

Instructor

Robby Adler Peckerar

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Ladino 1: Judeo-Spanish Language & Culture

Virtual Program

Haberes buenos (good news): you’re invited to join New Lehrhaus’s brand-new Ladino course! This six-session course offers an introduction to Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language whose evolution traces the very history of the Sephardic people. With roots in 15th-century languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Ladino has spent the past five centuries evolving separately from Spanish and in close contact with languages of the Mediterranean, especially Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and other Balkan ... Read more

Instructor

Julia Peck

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