IJS 2020 Autumn Lecture Series
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Of Chicken and Eggs
Tuesday, December 15th,Ìý2020
Of Chicken and Eggs: Jewish Political Agency in the Context of Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands with François Guesnet (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê)
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The Aramaic-speaking
Jews of Iraq and Iran
Thursday, December 10th,Ìý2020
Lecture by Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) on the Aramaic-speaking Jews who lived in villages and towns in northern Iraq, Turkey and Iran
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21st-century Ashkenazic Hebrew
Thursday, December 3rd,Ìý2020
Lily Kahn (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê) and Sonya Yampolskaya (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê) discuss Ashkenazic Hebrew-- a unique variety of Hebrew which has a centuries-long history of use
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German as a Jewish Problem
Tuesday, December 1st,Ìý2020
In his recent book publication German as a Jewish Problem, Marc Volovici (Birkbeck College) explores the multilingual nature of the Jewish national sphere in Central and Eastern Europe, and the centrality of the German language within it. He argues that it is impossible to understand the histories of modern Hebrew and Yiddish without situating them in relation to German.ÌýIn conjunction with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies.
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The Munich Talmud: a unique manuscript and its place in Jewish Book History
Wednesday, November 25th,Ìý2020
Lecture from Judith Schlanger (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) about this 14th century manuscript, one of the most important and intriguing medieval Hebrew works in existence.
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Locating Hebrew Rusia: A Problem of Medieval Hebrew Nomenclature
Thursday, November 19th,Ìý2020
The study of Jewish presence in early Eastern Europe and the problems of medieval nomenclature with Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Re-approaching the Babatha archive
Wednesday, November 18th,Ìý2020
Presented in conjunction with the : a lecture on the important Cave of Letters in Israel’s Judean Desert.Ìý
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Pius XII before, during and after the Shoah: a historical issue
Thursday, November 12th,Ìý2020
A Simon Wiesenthal Memorial Lecture with Alberto Melloni (University of Modena-Reggio)
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Budd Schulberg’s endgame
Thursday, November 5th,Ìý2020
The apprehension of Leni Riefenstahl and holding Nazi film to account, 1945. Michael Berkowitz (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê)
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The Jews as a Diaspora Nation
Thursday, October 22nd,Ìý2020
Questioning the negative connotations of "Diaspora" with Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
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Interpreting Collection in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Thursday, October 29th,Ìý2020
Hindy Najman (University of Oxford) and Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven).ÌýRecently the speakers have become increasingly interested in how the Dead Sea scrolls were produced: who wrote and copied these scrolls and how did they do it – materially and intellectually? Did these Jewish scribes collect texts in one scroll for practical reasons? Does collection reflect a creative growth of traditions? Or were scribes driven by an anthological temper? Should unique combinations of collected texts be regarded as intentional literary productions? This lecture will provide an overview, and discuss some of the rules of these scrolls, such as the limits or unlimitedness of collection.
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