The Community Lecture Series is presented annually in cooperation with synagogues and other sponsoring partners across Minneapolis and St. Paul. Join us as writers…
The University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to present its 23rd Annual Community Lecture Series, hosted by Minnesota JCC, in cooperation with Adath…
Ryken Farr, who is also minoring in German and Museum & Curatorial Studies, traveled to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts in Summer 2024
Join us on Dec. 11 for an evening of music, archival exploration, and learning about the life of Werner Simon, who documented his life and escape from Nazi Germany in the…
This lecture will demonstrate how Jewish folk narratives and fantasy writing between 1870 and the 1930s, a period in which Jewish and especially Yiddish literature blossomed…
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 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…
