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 Adjunct Assistant Professor in music and Jewish studies at Hunter. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Music at Hunter College. Due to limited […]
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 New York University, and director of the Archive of the American Jewish Left in the Digital Age In this lecture, Sandra Fox explains how a […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and Hunter’s Center for Jewish Studies co-host a unique concert program featuring Gordon Lockwood, a blues duo including singer and guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood and drummer Ricky Gordon. Originally fellow accompanists to blues legend Carolina Slim, Gordon and Lockwood have been making music together for more than 20 years. In this live concert, the famed musicians will […]
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 New York This lecture will be held in person at Hunter College and online via Zoom. Zoom link will be provided upon RSVP Please download […]
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 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 practice of wordless melody. In the hands of Dr. Torjman Thomas' Traveling in Pairs configuration (with piano accompaniment), niggunim become a vehicle for improvisatory exultations and exploration, […]
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 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 oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. Jessica Roda's scholarship flips this notion on its head. Drawing on years of fieldwork between […]
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 of uncompromising integrity. A very important part of American Jewish culture whose story is not well known, her choreography closely reflects her intense commitment to […]
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 ethnography and interviews, Fader explores where and how influencers inspire each other and interact, elaborating a political illiberal religious women’s authority that creates change, while […]
