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, Santa Cruz. And Michael Casper, PhD., University of California. Co-hosted by Hunter's Department of Urban Policy and Planning. This event will be held online via […]
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 Guggenheim Fellow. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Music at Hunter College. This lecture will also be available live on Zoom. Link sent […]
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 Israel and Jewish Studies This lecture will be held online via Zoom. Zoom link will be provided upon RSVP Please download the Zoom app before […]
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 Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. Hasidic leaders reinvented themselves through an ensuing pedagogical revolution. Hasidic yeshivas soon overshadowed courts and […]
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 […]
