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SUMMARY:Secularism and Interfaith Dialogue in Modern Nation-States: How the Concept of "Judeo-Christian" Tradition Illuminates the Shaping of French and American Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this event in the CJH-Fordham Lecture Series in Jewish-Christian Relations with Joel Sebban. \nBy focusing on the origins of the concept of “Judeo-Christian tradition” from the end of the 18th century to the mid-20th century in France and the United States\, Joel Sebban offers a rereading of the history of this controversial phrase. The notion of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” derives from a complicated process of redefining Judaism and Christian denominations within the framework of modern nation-states\, more specifically in France and the United States\, the first countries to emancipate Jews in their respective continents at the end of the 18th century and to fully separate Church and State. The history of the “Judeo-Christian tradition” opens new perspectives on the construction of state secularism on both sides of the Atlantic as well as on the acculturation process of Jews into mainly Christian societies. It eventually helps us understand the ways religious communities rethink their texts and traditions within the democratic public space. \nA reception with vegetarian refreshments will follow. \nAll Fordham events in Jewish studies are free.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/secularism-and-interfaith-dialogue-in-modern-nation-states-how-the-concept-of-judeo-christian-tradition-illuminates-the-shaping-of-french-and-american-democracy/
LOCATION:McMahon Hall\, Room 109
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Magda Teter":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190531T170000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Haggadah and History: Highlights from Fordham's Collection
DESCRIPTION:In 1975\, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi published his masterful volume Haggadah and History\, a visual history of the Haggadah since the early decades of printing until the year his book appeared. The Haggadah\, as Yerushalmi noted\, is “the most popular and beloved” of Jewish books. What is remarkable about the Haggadah is its historical adaptability. As Jews around the world each year during Passover recount the story of Exodus from Egypt\, they make it relevant to their own lives\, reflecting on the meaning of the story to their own times. Haggadot\, therefore\, often reflect not only the historical changes in Jewish culture but also the cultural diversity of Jews across the globe. On display at Fordham are Haggadot in Amharic\, Arabic\, English\, French\, Hebrew\, Judeo-Arabic\, Judaeo-Persian\, Polish\, German\, Swedish\, and Yiddish. Also on display will be our most recent acquisition: a Haggadah in Braille. You will see examples of lavish medieval manuscripts (here in high quality facsimiles)\, a children’s Haggadah from 1937 with pullouts\, disposable commercial Haggadot produced by businesses seeking to promote their products among Jewish consumers\, fundraising and activist Haggadot\, and more. \nThis exhibit is co-curated by Fordham undergraduate students Emma Fingleton\, FCRH ’19; Margaret Keiley FCRH ’21; and Zowie Kemery\, FCRH’19; and Professor Magda Teter.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/exhibition-haggadah-and-history-highlights-from-fordhams-collection/
LOCATION:Walsh Library\, O’Hare Special Collections Room\, Fordham University\, Rose Hill Campus\, 441 E. Fordham Rd.\, Bronx\, NY\, 10458\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts at Fordham
ORGANIZER;CN="Magda Teter":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T170000
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SUMMARY:The Haggadah in the Middle Ages and Beyond: A Celebration for Passover
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Les Enluminures gallery\, Jewish studies is proud to host a colloquium highlighting the tradition of the Haggadah from the Middle Ages to today. This gathering of experts and enthusiasts is one of a series of events celebrating a remarkable medieval manuscript: a Haggadah with seventy-five watercolor paintings created in the circle of the famous artist Giovannino de Grassi (d. 1398) in Milan in the late 14th century. Telling the story of the flight of the Jews from Egypt based on the biblical book of Exodus\, the Haggadah was—and still is—used during the Seder\, the ritual meal of the first night of Passover. The program is as follows: \nThe Haggadah in the Middle Ages and Beyond: A Celebration for Passover\nCo-sponsored by Jewish studies\, Medieval studies\, and the Department of Art History and Music of Fordham University and Les Enluminures \nSession 1: Moderator: Sharon Liberman Mintz\, Curator of Jewish Art\, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary \nEvelyn M. Cohen\, Independent Scholar\, New York\n“The Patronage of Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts in Renaissance Italy” \nJoshua Teplitsky\, Stony Brook University\, SUNY\n“Collecting Medieval Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe” \nBREAK \nSession 2: Moderator: Sandra Hindman\, Les Enluminures \nMarc Michael Epstein\, Vassar College\n“Making Pictures Talk: Imagination\, Narrative\, and Politics in the Images of the Haggadah” \nBarbara Wolff\, Artist\, New York\n“Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts for Our Time” \nRECEPTION \nAll Fordham events in Jewish studies are free and open to public.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/the-haggadah-in-the-middle-ages-and-beyond-a-celebration-for-passover/
LOCATION:McNally Amphitheatre\, 140 West 62nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Symposia,Lectures,Receptions
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T130000
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SUMMARY:Fordham – NYPL Lecture Series: Yael Levi
DESCRIPTION:Early Jewish-American Entrepreneurs: The Emergence of the Yiddish and Hebrew Press in the United States. \nIn this lunch seminar\, Jewish studies is proud to host Yael Levi\, whose work examines the beginnings of the Hebrew script periodical press in the United States in the second half of the 19th century\, focusing on its material\, cultural\, social\, economic\, and political aspects. Among the questions Levi examines is a meeting point of two dominant features of modernization: the transatlantic migration from the old world to the new world and the rise of the press as a mass media within the Jewish American context. \nAll Fordham events in Jewish studies are free and open to public.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/fordham-nypl-lecture-series-yael-levi/
LOCATION:South Lounge\, Lowenstein Center\, Lincoln Center Campus\, Lincoln Center campus\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
GEO:40.7710994;-73.9852715
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T200000
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SUMMARY:Adam Cohen\, “Social and Sacred in the Medieval Haggadah”
DESCRIPTION:Many have read Geraldine Brooks’ bestselling novel People of the Book\, which centers on the famous Sarajevo Haggadah (a book that contains the text recited at the Jewish Passover). This 2008 work of historical fiction wove a compelling story about the medieval and modern history of the 14th-century manuscript\, but the full-page illuminations that make the haggadah so special played virtually no role in Brooks’ novel. Cohen will use this remarkable manuscript and its rich picture cycle as a springboard for exploring the ways that illustrated haggadot expressed two different\, but intertwined issues: the social world of medieval Jews and their relationship to “the sacred.” Pictures were carefully crafted vehicles that served many functions\, from crystallizing contemporary practice and shaping experience to articulating multilayered ideas about the relationship of Jews to God\, to one another\, and to their non-Jewish neighbors. For at least some Jews in the Middle Ages\, to be the “people of the book” meant not only reading texts but also decorating them in ways that revealed urgent cogitations about identity\, place\, and time. \nAll Fordham events in Jewish studies are free and open to public.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/adam-cohen-social-and-sacred-in-the-medieval-haggadah/
LOCATION:McNally Amphitheatre\, 140 West 62nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
GEO:40.7713958;-73.9844894
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T200000
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SUMMARY:Fordham - NYPL Lecture Series: Nina Valbousquet
DESCRIPTION:“Un-American” and “Un-Christian?” Global Antisemitism and Jewish-Catholic Relations in the United States\, 1936–1945. \nThis lecture examines the impact of antisemitism on Jewish-Catholic relations in the United States from 1936 to the Holocaust. It is especially timely today to further investigate the historical shapes of antisemitism in the U.S. and to consider both its religious and secular components. The second half of the 1930s bore witness to an unprecedented “tide of Catholic antisemitism” in America (Father Gregory Feige). In response\, American Jewish defense organizations approached the Vatican and American Catholic leaders to convince them that antisemitism was “un-American” as well as “un-Christian.” The lecture reassesses the weight of home-grown antisemitism (Father Charles Coughlin\, the Christian Front\, and the Tablet of the Brooklyn diocese\, for instance) as well as the impact of global issues such as the Spanish Civil War and the refugees’ crisis on the eve of WWII. \nIn this presentation\, Valbousquet follows cases of Jewish-Catholic collaboration against antisemitism and the initiatives of the American Jewish Committee\, the National Conference of Christians and Jews\, and the Committee of Catholics to Fight Antisemitism. I dedicate specific attention to Jewish-Catholic encounters that took place in New York and especially to the key role of New York universities (Fordham University\, Hunter College\, Jewish Theological Seminary\, among others). As a result\, the lecture discusses the significance of these interactions: to what extent did they go beyond mere religious self-interests and address broader issues of human rights\, racism\, and pluralism? \nAll Fordham events in Jewish studies are free and open to public.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/fordham-nypl-lecture-series-nina-valbousquet/
LOCATION:Fordham Law School\, Gorman Moot Courtroom\, Fordham Law School\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T200000
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SUMMARY:Fordham – NYPL Lecture Series: Miranda Crowdus
DESCRIPTION:The Liturgical Music of the Romaniote Jews: From Antiquity to the Present Day \nIn this talk\, Miranda Crowdus will highlight her work in creating the first comprehensive history and analysis of the distinctive musical-liturgical traditions of the Romaniote Jews. By examining the musical traditions through the frame of Jewish ethnography and Jewish liturgy\, Crowdus traces these long-lived practices from their little known origins during the Roman period (146 BCE–330 CE) to how\, following World War II\, the musical and social aspects were translated and transformed in their new American context. \nAll Fordham events in Jewish studies are free and open to public.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/fordham-nypl-lecture-series-miranda-crowdus/
LOCATION:McMahon 109\, McMahon Hall\, 113 West 60th Street\, Lincoln Center Campus\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
GEO:40.7708109;-73.9851512
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T200000
DTSTAMP:20250428T194048
CREATED:20190219T143925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T143925Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Studies Book Club featuring Jessica Marglin\, “Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco”
DESCRIPTION:Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco\, which won the 2017–2018 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture and the 2016 Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research\, examines Jewish–Muslim relations in Morocco by following the Assarrafs\, a Judeo-Morrocan merchant family from Fez\, in the late 19th and early 20th century\, a time of upheaval in Morocco. Jessica Marglin demonstrates that Jews used the courts and law to integrate into Muslim society until European colonial powers intervened. Through a legal lens\, Marglin challenges common perceptions of Jewish history\, Jewish–Muslim relations\, the Middle East\, and the nature of legal pluralism. Join us for an evening conversation with Jessica Marglin about her award-winning book. \nCopies of the book can be purchased at the Fordham Bookstore at Lincoln Center (113 West 60th Street) or online at yalebooks.com with a 25% discount (code for online purchases YZ979). CUNY graduate students and Fordham students and faculty can request copies of their books free of charge by contacting jewishstudies@fordham.edu. \nThe Jewish Studies Book Club is a joint initiative of The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, and Fordham University\, in collaboration with the New York Public Library.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/jewish-studies-book-club-featuring-jessica-marglin-across-legal-lines-jews-and-muslims-in-modern-morocco/
LOCATION:12th-Floor Lounge\, Corrigan Conference Center\, Lowenstein Center\, Lincoln Center Campus\, 113 W. 60th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
GEO:40.7710994;-73.9852715
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T200000
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SUMMARY:Salo Baron New Voices in Jewish Studies: Noam Shoked
DESCRIPTION:In the news\, the conversation about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict often revolves around the settlements built in the West Bank\, which Israel conquered from Jordan in 1967. Very little\, however\, is said about the actual design and construction of the settlements and their relationship to Zionism\, as well as to the tradition of modernist architecture that developed in Israel. \nThis talk looks at the design of one of the first settlements built in the West Bank\, at a time when Israelis were still debating the administrative fate of the occupied territories. While government officials were hesitant to populate the West Bank with Israelis\, activists advocated for building settlements\, whether out of a desire to be close to Biblical sites or to be close to Arab culture. Meanwhile\, professional architects preferred ignoring the West Bank. This talk examines the debates that emerged between these different groups and the architectural forms that resulted from those debates. It takes the case of the Jewish settlement of Hebron in order to show how a political landscape that we take for granted today came about in contingent and unexpected ways.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/salo-baron-new-voices-in-jewish-studies-noam-shoked/
LOCATION:140 West 62nd St\, Room 328\, 140 West 62nd St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T143000
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SUMMARY:Yael Wilfand on “How Great Is Peace”: Rabbinic Thinking on Shalom and the Pax Romana
DESCRIPTION:Yael Wilfand of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will give a lunch seminar titled “‘How Great is Peace'”: Rabbinic Thinking on Shalom and the Pax Romana.”
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/yael-wilfand-on-how-great-is-peace-rabbinic-thinking-on-shalom-and-the-pax-romana/
LOCATION:Duane 140\, 441 East Fordham Road\, Bronx\, NY\, 10458\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T200000
DTSTAMP:20250428T194048
CREATED:20190215T190824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190215T190824Z
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SUMMARY:In Dialogue III: Jewish–Polish Relations During the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:The history and memory of World War II and the destruction of the majority of European Jews on Polish soil have run on separate tracks: the history of World War II and the Holocaust. Samuel Kassow and Piotr Wróbel will focus their conversation on the contested issues in the Polish–Jewish relations of this period\, and the problem of distinct historical memories this period evokes among Jews and Poles.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/in-dialogue-iii-jewish-polish-relations-during-the-second-world-war/
LOCATION:Low Memorial Library\, Faculty Room 207\, 535 west 116th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Studies Program":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181007T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181008T180000
DTSTAMP:20250428T194048
CREATED:20180920T153758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180920T153758Z
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SUMMARY:Appropriation in (and of) the Premodern World Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference examines the question of how members of different cultures and religious communities appropriated each other’s ideas\, texts\, legal practices\, spaces\, art\, and material culture. Through contributions from a plurality of disciplinary fields and drawing on diverse methodological and theoretical approaches\, we hope to explore the reasons\, manners\, and effects of those acts of appropriation and their historical and historiographic implications. \nSchedule of Events\n \nOctober 7\n9:45 a.m.: Coffee and Bagels\n\n10:15 a.m.: Welcome\n\n10:30 a.m.: Keynote Address by Marina Rustow\, Princeton University\n\n12 p.m.: Lunch\n\n1 p.m. pm: Appropriation in Late Antiquity\nChair: Richard Teverson\, Fordham University\n\nThe Sabbath\, the Lord’s Day\, and Questions of Temporal Appropriation in Late Antiquity\nSarit Kattan Gribetz\, Fordham University\n\nChristian Appropriation of Zion in 5 Ezra\nKarina Martin Hogan\, Fordham University \nA Lament on the Destruction of Jerusalem: Appropriation of Josephus\, Hegesippus\, and Yossipon\nPeter Sh. Lehnardt\, Ben-Gurion University \nThe Appropriation of Theological Labels in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Controversies\nEmanuel Fiano\, Fordham University\n\n3 p.m.: Coffee Break \n3:30 p.m.: Appropriation of Law and Traditions in an Islamic Context\nChair: Elisha Russ-Fishbane\, NYU \nAppropriations of the Qur’an of the Caliph ‘Uthman\nDaniella Talmon-Heller\, Ben-Gurion University \nMaking and Shaping Islamic Legal Sources\nNimrod Hurvitz\, Ben-Gurion University \nApproaches to Comparative Legal History\nWolfgang Mueller\, Fordham University \n6 pm: Dinner \nOctober 8\n8:30 a.m.: Breakfast \n9 a.m.: Appropriation in Medieval Aristocratic Culture\nChair: Christopher Rose\, Fordham University\n\nAlways the Same Game? The Hunt and Social Status Between Latin and Muslim Aristocracies in the Crusader Levant\nNicholas Paul\, Fordham University\n\nDukus Horant: Bridal Quest on a Jewish Crusade\nUri Shachar\, Ben-Gurion University\n\n“Mîn herze und mîn lîp diu wellent scheiden:” Friedrich von Hausen Goes on Crusade\nSusanne Hafner\, Fordham University \n10:30 a.m.: Coffee Break \n11 a.m.: Appropriation in the Medieval and Early Modern World\nChair: Paola Tartakoff\, Rutgers University\n\nAppropriating the Figure of Rabbi Judah “the Pious” in 15th-Century Folktales from Regensburg\nEphraim Shoham-Steiner\, Ben-Gurion University\n\nAppropriating Texts and Facts\nMagda Teter\, Fordham University\n\nThe Myth of the Last World Emperor and the Making of Ottoman Universal Ideology in the Late Medieval Mediterranean\nEbru Turan\, Fordham University \n12:30 p.m.: Lunch \n1:30 p.m.: Memory\, Forgetting\, and the Study of the Past\nChair: David Hamlin\, Fordham University \nShimon bar-Kosibah’s Letters in Modern Israeli Discourse\nHaim Weiss\, Ben-Gurion University \nDigitization as a Form of Silencing: The Armenian Genocide\nDror Zeevi\, Ben-Gurion University \nThe Forgotten Documents in Leningrad/St. Petersburg and the Study of the Karaite Past\nDaniel J. Lasker\, Ben-Gurion University \n3 p.m.: Coffee Break \n3:30 p.m.: Roundtable and Wrap-Up
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/appropriation-in-and-of-the-premodern-world-conference/2018-10-07/
LOCATION:McMahon Hall\, Room 109
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T200000
DTSTAMP:20250428T194048
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SUMMARY:In Dialogue on Polish-Jewish Relations: Part I
DESCRIPTION:Modern-day Poland\, a medium-sized European country with a predominantly ethnically Polish and Roman Catholic population\, obscures its longer history. For hundreds of years Poland was not only the largest state in Europe\, but also one of its most ethnically and culturally diverse states. It was also home to the largest population of Jews in the world. Since the end of World War II\, with the loss of religious and ethnic groups\, this complex past has been muted\, if not forgotten. \nThis series of four events\, jointly organized by Columbia University\, Fordham University\, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research\, will explore the complex history of Poland and its shifting borders\, focusing on the shared—but much misunderstood—past of Polish Jews and Christians. It will provide historical and cultural tools to foster better understanding of Poland’s history\, Polish-Jewish relations\, and of the tensions between history and memory\, exclusion and belonging\, national ideologies\, and identities\, including antisemitism. \nThis evening focuses on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the period of the partitions. Magda Teter (Fordham University) and Brian Porter-Szűcs (University of Michigan) will discuss Jewish-Christian relations of this period\, the Jews’ place in the social fabric of the commonwealth\, their belonging and exclusion\, and the transformation from the multi-ethnic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to 19th-century nationalist ideologies that simultaneously used and obscured the country’s complex past. The conversation examines the way these perceptions of the past have figured into contemporary memory and historiography in creating competing visions and myths of the past that served modern national ideologies and identities. \nAbout the Speakers\nMagda Teter is a professor of history and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. Teter is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge\, 2005)\, Sinners on Trial (Harvard\, 2011)\, and two edited volumes\, as well as numerous articles in English\, Italian\, Polish\, and Hebrew. Her work has been supported by the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library (2017–2018)\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2012)\, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (in 2007 and 2012)\, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, the YIVO Institute\, and the Yad Ha-Nadiv Foundation (Israel)\, among others. In 2002\, she was a Harry Starr Fellow in Jewish Studies at Harvard University; in 2007–2008\, she was an Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies also at Harvard University. She has served as the co-editor of the AJS Review and as the vice-president for publications of the Association for Jewish Studies. \nBrian Porter-Szűcs is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor\, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of Poland and the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom (Wiley Blackwell\, 2014)\, Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism\, Modernity\, and Poland (Oxford University Press\, 2010)\, and When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in 19th Century Poland (Oxford University Press\, 2000)\, which was translated into Polish as Gdy nacjonalizm zaczął nienawidzić: Wyobrażenia nowoczesnej polityki w dziewiętnastowiecznej Polsce (Pogranicze\, 2011). Together with Bruce Berglund\, he co-edited Christianity and Modernity in East-Central Europe (Central European University Press\, 2010). In early 2019\, his book Całkiem zwyczajny kraj: Historia Polski bez martyrologii will be released by the Warsaw publisher WAB. \nThis event is co-presented by Columbia University\, Fordham University\, and the YIVO Institute.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/in-dialogue-on-polish-jewish-relations-part-i/
LOCATION:Law 1-01\, Fordham Law School\, 150 West 62nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Symposia,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Be an Upstander: The Fred Heyman Story: Screening and Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this documentary screening and talk with Holocaust survivor Fred Heyman and producer Howard Goldberg. Refreshments will be served! \nAbout Fred Heyman\nHeyman was born in Berlin\, Germany. He is the only male survivor of his family\, who resided in the city until the end of 1946 and experienced anti-Semitism and the rise and fall of Nazi Germany while Heyman was a teenager. He managed to survive with the help of a Catholic family. Only about 8\,000 Berlin Jews survived the Nazi era out of the 170\,000 Jews who populated the city in the 1920s\, making up a third of the entire Jewish population of Germany or 4 percent of the city’s population at the time. Only 4\,700 were protected from deportation by “mixed marriages” to an “Aryan” partner\, like the Heymans. Only 1\,900 returned from camps\, and an estimated 1\,500 survived underground. But once the war was over\, only a few wanted to remain in Germany. The Heyman family also decided to emigrate to the United States in 1947. Fred Heyman did not want to talk about his experiences for a long time. But after being approached to share his memories\, his current mission emerged: “The opposite of a bystander is an upstander. I want to be an upstander. I want people to be upstanders. In Nazi Germany\, most people did not help\,” he says. \nFor more information\, contact Maria Ebner at mebner1@fordham.edu. \nThis even is being generously supported by Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill Maura Mast\, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures\, and the Jewish Studies program.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/upstander-fred-heyman-story-screening-talk/
LOCATION:Bepler Commons\, Faber Hall\, 441 East Fordham Road\, Bronx\, NY\, 10458\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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