This lecture delves into the defining features of the Ladino language as a source of Sephardic resilience and adaptation after the expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula through…
As many as fifty thousand Jews from the lands of the former Ottoman Empire came to the United States in the decades surrounding World War I. Due to their small numbers…
John Modern, the Arthur & Katherine Shadek Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, will sketch a religious history of computer science and artificial…
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Featuring specialists in citizenship, borderlands, refugee policy, and the early American republic…
Join us on April 9th at 4:00 PM, in 1210 Heller Hall, for the annual Frederick and Catherine Lauritsen Lecture in Ancient History. Our speaker this year is Dr. Robert Morstein…
This talk will focus on the experience of language in the Warsaw ghetto, looking at the new Yiddish words invented, how people debated their meanings, and why they felt it was…
What did “Nature” mean for Jews imprisoned in Nazi spaces? To what extent was “nature” a meaningful category for them in their struggles to survive? How did they relate to…
