Sayed Kashua on Humor, Hope, and Hopelessness
February 4, 2024
The Reneé and Lester Crown Speaker Series
Past Events
2024
2023
American Shtetl: The Intriguing Story of Kiryas Joel, a Booming Hasidic Town in Suburban New York
May 16, 2023
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
"The Freudian Lullaby Contest: How the Yiddish Press Covered Psychoanalysis"
April 27, 2023
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
2022
"S.Y. Agnon and Gustave Flaubert: Hebraizing a French Master"
November 6, 2022
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series
"A Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America"
May 23, 2022
Philip M. and Ethel Lecture in Jewish Civilization
Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series: A Conversation with Author Joshua Cohen
April 11, 2022
New Books in Israel Studies Series: "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist"
March 30, 2022
New Books in Israel Studies Series: Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War
March 2, 2022
New Books in Israel Studies: The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past
February 16, 2022
New Books in Israel Studies Series : Educating Palestine, Teaching and Learning History under the Mandate
January 26, 2022
2021
"The New Jew" Conversation with Series Creators Guri Alfi and Moshe Samuels
October 29, 2021
Arab-Jewish Culture, Identity, and Language: Past and Present
June 13, 2021
Five-part series with events between April 18 - June 13, 2021
Performance and conversation with Yonatan Blumenfeld, one of Israel’s leading poetry slam artists
May 14, 2021
Professor Lila Corwin Berman of Temple University discussed her award winning book "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex"
May 14, 2021
“Es iz schwer tzu sein a Yid: It is hard to be a Jew"
April 29, 2021
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
A Conversation with Yotam Ottolenghi
March 17, 2021
Jewish and Israeli Cuisine and Culture: A Conversation with Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook
March 4, 2021
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series
Working Memory: Present Day Uses of the Jewish Past
January 14, 2021
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies. A two-part panel discussion series.
2020
Bilingualism in Jerusalem
November 22, 2020
A discussion with Dr. Maya de Vries-Kedem
"I Am an Arab Jew” with Sami Chetrit
November 8, 2020
A discussion with Sami Chetrit
2019
"Israel Facing a New Middle East: Challenges and Responses"
November 12, 2019
Lecture by Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich
"The Revival of the Jewish-Christian Debate in the 19th Century: Missionaries, Meshummadim and Maskilim"
November 7, 2019
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
Nicole Krauss: A Literary Conversation
April 8, 2019
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series
Protecting the Faith: Censoring Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels
April 3, 2019
Marci Freedman, Sava Ranisavljevic Post-Doctoral Fellow in Judeo-Spanish Studies, Northwestern University
Israel at a Crossroads? Electoral Politics in a Divided Nation
March 13, 2019
A panel discussion on the upcoming 2019 Knesset election
What is Antisemitism? Historical, Political and Personal Perspectives
March 3, 2019
The Allan and Norma Harris Day of Jewish Study
My Fingers for War: A Prayer for Jewish Militiamen in Colonial Suriname
February 14, 2019
Eli Rosenblatt, Affiliated Scholar, Northwestern University
2018
A German-Jewish Hermeneutics Conference
October 29, 2018
Between Jesus and Paul: From Apologetics to Jewish Theological Affirmations in 20th Century Germany
October 29, 2018
The Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies presented by Paul Mendes-Flohr
Sephardic Religious Revival in Israel
June 4, 2018
Joseph Ringel, Northwestern University
Talmud: a Biography, Podcast Interview with Professor Barry Wimpfheimer
May 10, 2018
New Books Network: Listen to the podcast
Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost & Found Songs of Soviet Jews During World War II
May 7, 2018
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization presented by Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko
Remembering 1492: Ottoman Jews and the Spanish Past
May 3, 2018
Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University (Co-sponsored by Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Partially funded by the Sava Ranisavljevic Fund)
Towards a Social History of Medieval Jewish Marriage: Individuals and Communities
May 3, 2018
Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University (Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies)
Between the Ottoman Empire and Italy: The Jews of Rhodes, 1880-1938
April 26, 2018
Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University (Co-sponsored by Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Partially funded by the Sava Ranisavljevic Fund)
Songs of Praise in a Broken World: Leonard Cohen From "Story of Isaac" (1969) to "You Want it Darker" (2016)
April 24, 2018
The Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies presented by Stefano Perfetti
Like Negros...and Mohammedans: Sephardic Jews in the American Racial Imagination
April 19, 2018
Devin Naar, University of Washington (Co-sponsored by Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Partially funded by the Sava Ranisavljevic Fund)
Israel's Great Paradox: Strong Macro, Poor Micro
April 18, 2018
Manual Trajtenberg, Tel-Aviv University (Co-sponsored by Economics)
Violence and the Politics of Identity in Ancient Jewish Literature
April 12, 2018
Yonatan Miller, University of Toledo
Israel at 70: Social Fissures, Shared Aspirations
April 11, 2018
Presented by Manuel Trajtenberg
Recent publications panel with faculty from the Jewish Studies Program
March 18, 2018
The Allan and Norma Harris Day of Jewish Study
Consumption and the Economic Turn in Jewish History: When Women Disappeared
March 13, 2018
Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota
The Forgotten Pioneer: Jean Carroll, the First Jewish Female Comedian
February 12, 2018
Grace Kessler Overbeke, PhD Candidate, Theatre, Northwestern University
Performance and Text in Jewish Ritual
January 22, 2018
Yair Lipshitz, Tel Aviv University (Co-sponsored by Religious Studies)
2017
One Jew, Two Opinions: The Social Role of Responsa in the Medieval Islamic World
November 20, 2017
Phil Lieberman, Vanderbilt University (Co-sponsored by MENA)
Life, Love and Judaism: A Conversation About Writing and Spirituality
November 16, 2017
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series presented by Tova Mirvis and Abigail Pogrebin
Israel at a Crossroads: The View from 30,000 Feet
November 8, 2017
Dan Ben-David, Department of Public Policy, Tel-Aviv University
Water in Israel and the Middle East: Regional Water Sustainability and Resilience
May 24, 2017
The Wandering Jew Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
May 22, 2017
Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
May 18, 2017
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization presented by Ruth Gavison
The Jewish Encounter with American Freedom: A New Variation on an Old Theme
April 2, 2017
The Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies presented by Tony Michels
Challenges for U.S. Middle East Policy Under the Trump Administration
March 8, 2017
Presented by Ambassador Dennis Ross
Yiddish Drama & the Aftermath of the Holocaust
March 3, 2017
Joel Berkowitz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Media and Collective Memory in Israel and Beyond
February 13, 2017
Noam Tirosh, Ben Gurion University
The Talmud and the Two-Headed Man
February 1, 2017
Sarah Wolf, PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
Sins of the Parents in Rabbinic and Early Christian Literature
January 9, 2017
Dov Weiss, University of Illinois
2016
Composing a New Self: Assimilation and German-Jewish Identity in Post-Emancipation Musical Circles
December 12, 2016
Amanda Ruppenthal Stein, PhD candidate at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
Two She-Bears: Reflections on Israeli Society
November 10, 2016
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series presented by Meir Shalev
Allan and Norma Harris Day of Jewish Study
October 30, 2016
"Late Marriage" Film Screening
October 13, 2016
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
June 7, 2016
The Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies presented by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Yona Wallach: Deconstructed Through Film
May 31, 2016
Water in Israel and the Middle East - Symposium
May 18, 2016
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
April 26, 2016
Presented by Bruce Hoffman
Neighboring Faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
April 12, 2016
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization presented by David Nirenberg
Matisyahu in Concert and Conversation
March 31, 2016
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series
Jewish American World War II Novels: Young Lions
March 1, 2016
The Allan and Norma Harris Day of Jewish Study
February 14, 2016
2015
The State of Jewish Studies in the CIC: Reports, Discussion and Collaboration
November 15, 2015
Between Baghdad and Haifa - A Tribute to Israeli Author Sami Michael
October 7, 2015
Dealing with 'Difficult' Prayers: Jewish Liturgy in an Age of Jewish-Christian Dialogue
May 28, 2015
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
At the Crossroads: New Directions in the Study of Rabbinic Literature
May 18, 2015
Is it Good to Give? The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
April 23, 2015
The Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies
2015 Knesset Elections: A Shift in Israeli Politics?
March 5, 2015
2014
Hollywood and the Holocaust: From Appeasement to Anti-Nazism, 1933-1945, Lawrence Baron
November 3, 2014
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
Still Falling: Gary Shteyngart Returns
October 25, 2014
The Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series in Partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival
Gaza and Beyond: Israel, The Palestinians, and the Arab World
October 23, 2014
Sholem Aleichem: A Life in Fact and Fiction, Jeremy Dauber
June 11, 2014
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
Same People, Different Worlds: Israel, America, and their Jews in the 21st Century, Yehuda Mirsky
April 24, 2014
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
2013
Revelation, Authority and Ambiguity in Deuteronomy, Benjamin Sommer
December 5, 2013
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
The Zionist Ideal in Israeli Culture: Dream and Reality
November 17, 2013
Jewish Democratic State: Israel between Nationalism, Religion and Liberalism, Moshe Halbertal
October 23, 2013
Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series
Hasidism in the Modern Jewish Imagination, Arthur Green
May 6, 2013
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
Makom: The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures, Barbara Mann Simon
April 25, 2013
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
2012
The Ownership of Identity, Nathan Englander
November 19, 2012
Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series
Beyond Survival: American Ultra-Orthodoxy as Religion
October 21, 2012
A Requiem for Kodachrome: Jewish (film) History in 'Nice Bright Colors', Michael Berkowitz
October 10, 2012
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
Dreamers or Pioneers? The Jewish Community in 19th Century Jerusalem, Israel Bartal
May 14, 2012
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
Private Faith, Public Religion: Tensions in Modern Jewish Thought, Leora Batnitzky
April 19, 2012
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
2011
German-Jewish Responses to the Rise of Hitler, Michael Brenner
October 4, 2011
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture, Jonathan Sarna
May 17, 2011
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
Christian Missionizing and Jewish Responses over the Ages, Robert Chazan
May 2, 2011
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
Human Rights Derailed: Delegitimizing the State of Israel, Irwin Cotler
April 7, 2011
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
2010
Arabs in a Jewish State: Dilemmas of National Identity
June 23, 2010
Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century, Anthony Julius
May 3, 2010
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
How Jewish is Jewish History, Moshe Rosman
March 1, 2010
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
2009
Gender, Judaism and Freud: Confessions of an Orthodox Jewish Feminist, Tova Hartman
March 4, 2009
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
2008
Israel at Sixty, Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Jewish State
May 18, 2008
After Post-Zionism: Building the Israel That Could Be, Hillel Halkin
March 12, 2008
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
2007
Four Approaches to Studying Women in Jewish History, Judith Baskin
October 16, 2007
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
Guenter Grass and My German Problem-Again, Peter Gay
April 17, 2007
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
Lost Between Memory and History: Writing the Holocaust for the Next Generation, Daniel Mendelsohn
February 20, 2007
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
2006
The Election of Israel: Reflections of a Catholic Old Testament Scholar, Gary Anderson
May 7, 2006
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies