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February 6, 2020

The Labor of Jewish Bookmaking in the Early Modern Mediterranean

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Noam Sienna is a doctoral candidate in History and Museum Studies at the University of Minnesota, focusing on Jewish culture in the Islamic world in the medieval and early modern periods...

February 27, 2020

"Not a Suicide Pact”: Rethinking Antisemitism and Liberalism in Postwar...

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This seminar will focus on new research on the history of mid-twentieth-century American Jewish civil rights activism against antisemitism. Based on a book-in-progress, I will argue that...

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