Join us every **Thursday** at **2 pm** for Sha’at Ivrit, Hebrew Hour, to practice your conversational Hebrew! We’ll meet at 2 pm in the coffee area where you first enter the library (coffee/tea and cookies provided!). We’ll begin each session with a five-minute feature of an item from our rare book and manuscript collection that […]
With the intensification of approaches in cultural studies that call into question the morality of social developments–everything from feminism to colonialism to contemporary takes on Marxist theory—engagement with a religious canon raises all sorts of questions that challenge a person’s and a community’s ethical values. How should we read misogynistic or racist passages? How should […]
The Ancient Israelites worshiped God within the broader context of religious expression in the ancient Near East, and yet the Israelites are generally perceived as devoted to the biblical God, YHVH, exclusively. In this talk, we will explore the conceptualization of deity in antiquity, and particularly how ideas about divinity are reflected in the presentation […]
Before the Second World War, Yiddish literature painted vivid, intricate maps of Jewish life in Eastern Europe—charting not just the physical terrain, but the imagination itself. Robert Adler Peckerar’s recent translations unearth powerful stories rooted in this terrain, and this talk delves into how the region’s history and geography shaped the works of three very […]
