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Robert Seltzer Series The Intolerance of Monotheism: Towards a Religious History of Antisemitism Because of their minority status in Medieval Islamic and Christian societies, Jews became the persecuted other who justified Christian and Muslim belief in their own supersession or replacement theology. Even in the modern, more secular era, baked-in religious prejudices informed the dynamics […]
Robert Seltzer Series Illiberal Religious Momfluencers: The Political Language of Wellness This talk examines illiberal Jewish and Christian women Instagram influencers who focus on wellness, domesticity, and motherhood. Using digital […]
Robert Seltzer Series Anna Sokolow and the Jewish Roots of her American Modern Dance American modern dance pioneer and Jewish cultural icon Anna Sokolow (1910-2000) was a dancer and choreographer […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust The Light of Learning, by Glenn Dynner, tells the story of an unexpected […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series The Art of the Niggun: Melody as Devotion In a duo performance, Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas traverses the world of niggunim, drawing upon the Hasidic devotional […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew Presented by: Jeremy Dauber, Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University and director emeritus of its Institute for […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality Versus Popular Culture Presented by: Schneur Zalman Newfield, Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Presented by: Sandra Fox, Goldstein-Goren Visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Sounds of Mediterranean Jewry: Sephardi-Mizrahi Songlines Presented by: Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas, Founder and Artistic Director of ASEFA and the New York Andalus Ensemble and […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series The Yiddish (Un)conscious: Psychoanalysis as a Jewish Science Presented by: Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto, and a […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg Presented by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History at the University of California, […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Performing Jewish Identity in Russian Immigrant Narratives of the Third Wave 1970-1980s) Presented by Yasha Klots, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hunter College Was the Third Wave […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series A Decade-Long Retrospective on US-Israel Relations Presented by Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a '22-'23 inaugural fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center for Antisemitism Research […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Moshiach, Moshiach! Differing Notions of Messiah in Second Temple Judaism Presented by Rachel Slutsky, Monsignor John Oesterreicher Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Trends in American Jewish Names Presented by Sarah Benor, Vice Provost and Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College Which names do Jews and […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series “The Same as in the Portuguese Synagogue in New York”: Colonial New York’s Emergence as a Center of North American Jewish Commercial and Communal Activity […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Fradl Shtok and Yiddish Women’s Cultural Modernity Presented by Allison Schachter, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, English, and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University What role […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Stanley Kubrick - New York Jewish Intellectual Presented by Nathan Abrams, professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, Wales. Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was born […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series From Kitchen Judaism to Combat Kashrut: Keeping Kosher in WWII Presented by Daniel Bronstein of Hunter College. The onset of World War Two inspired hundreds […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Kafka's Last Trial Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka's Last Trial, in conversation with Lisa Anderson, professor and chair of the German Department at Hunter College. […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist’s Life Presented by: Laura S. Schor This talk will focus on the life and art of the […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: “I Am Now at War Again” Jewish World War I Veterans and Kristallnacht Presented by: Michael Geheran This talk examines the responses of […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Tehran Children: How a Decade Long Search in My Father's Footsteps Became "One of the Greatest Untold Stories of the Second World War" […]
