This talk tells Charlaque's story as a way to explore the remarkable trans world of Weimar Berlin, destroyed in 1933, and the ways in which the fascists persecuted trans…
How did the family of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan—founder of Reconstructionism—influence his thinking about women, Jewish law and ritual, and a Jewish homeland? The father of four…
This talk suggests four models for creating more inclusive American Jewish intellectual traditions. It considers a contributory model, a communalist approach, using Jewishness…
What is the opposite of media failure? Over the past years, a growing body of literature has examined forms of failure (e.g., glitch, error, noise) as habitual phenomena in…
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…
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…
