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 comparisons of settings of the same text by various composers as well as incidental and special occasion music composed for the synagogue. Compositions from the […]
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 a rabbi-cantor family in Bavaria, and whose musical travels took him through Bohemia, Germany, & France. Cantor Austerklein will lead us through humorous and wisdom-filled excerpts […]
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.
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.
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.
What did the high priest’s ritual dress look like? How did it function in Temple service? Why did the Romans want to keep it under lock and key? Join us as we explore the biblical text in concert with archaeological remains to understand how Israel’s high priestly garments functioned in ancient liturgy and in the formation of community identity.
What stories can a book tell us beyond the words on its pages? In the aftermath of the immense destruction to Polish Jewry wrought by the Holocaust, Jewish cultural activists went to enormous lengths to rebuild. In this talk, Dr. Rachelle Grossman will tell the surprising story of Yiddish books published in postwar Poland.
Rabbi Dr. Wendy Zierler is the Sigmund Falk Professor, Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies. This semester at HUC, Dr. Zierler will be teaching a course on Jewish children’s literature, defining the unique characteristics of the genre and exploring the traditional values it seeks to impart on future generations.
Join us for a fascinating event in which Christine Thomas will present the findings of her new book, Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father, inviting you to travel to Ugarit in Late Bronze Age Syria to see how royal women were positioned at the center of their political world.
