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The Histories of the Hebrew Language and its Script
There is no single Hebrew language. There are no less than seven of them. In this talk Dr. Kaufman will address the major periods of the Hebrew language and the […]
Author Talk and Book Signing with Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is an award-winning author of three novels, the latest of which is titled “Before All the World.” Join us for a reading and conversation with the author as […]
Birnbaum on Ivory
This exciting program will be an exploration of pieces from the Eduard Birnbaum Collection, featuring liturgical compositions from the 19th and 20th centuries performed as solo piano works. Selections will include side-by-side […]
High Holiday Advice from a 300-Year-Old Cantor
Join Cantor Matt Austerklein for a timely dive into High Holidays with advice from the most colorful guidebook in early cantorial history. Sefer Teudat Shlomo (1718) was published by Rabbi Shlomo Lipschitz, who came from […]
Printing, Praying, and Performing Jewish Identity in Early Modern Italy: Maḥzor kimḥa d’avishuna with Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D.
In 1540, a group of silk weavers from the city of Bologna, who called themselves “the partners” (ha-shutafim), printed a two-volume compendium of the Jewish liturgy for the yearly worship cycle. This maḥzor (prayer book) included both a commentary on the liturgy by R. Yohanan b. Joseph Treves, entitled Kimha d’avishuna (Flour Milled from Roasted Grain), and a commentary on Tractate Avot of the Mishnah (an oft-quoted anthology of rabbinic wisdom) by R. Obadiah b. Jacob Sforno.
A light catered Kosher lunch will be provided.
Hebrew Books and the Global History of Printing
This talk will consider how the long history of Hebrew printing can transform dominant narratives about the history of the book and the origins of modernity.
Allusions & Illusions: Understanding Prophetic Imagery in Israeli Poetry
Join Rabbi Haim Rechnitzer, Ph.D. as we discuss his newly published Ars-Prophetica: Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Israeli Poets Avraham Ḥalfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi.