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Recent Lecture Recordings:
Dr. Lauren Gottlieb Lockshin, “Defending Dreyfus: The First Modern Fight Against Antisemitism.” 3/14/2023 click here
Dr. Jordan Katz, “Naming and Shaming: Illegitimate Births Among Early Modern Jews.” 1/11/2023 click here
Dr. Rachel Hallote, “Politics and Archaeology in Israel.” 12/14/2022 click here
Dr. Shari Rabin, “Dissent, Providentialism, and Slavery: A New Interpretation of Early Charleston Jewish Life.” 11/15/2022 click here
Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, “A Talmudic Monk: R’ Shimon bar Yochai’s Stay in a Cave” 10/26/2022 click here
Dr. Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, “Spousal Selection as Force of Evolution: Marriage Preference in the Haredi Community” 9/18/2022 click here
Next Lecture:
Wednesday, May 17 @8:30 pm: Dr. Marion Kaplan
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History
New York University
WIJS Schedule 2022-2023
Sunday, September 18 @10:00 am – Dr. Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe
Department of Public Policy
Tel Aviv University
“Spousal Selection as Force of Evolution: Marriage Preference in the Haredi Community”
Wednesday, October 26 @8:00pm – Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Horace Goldsmith Visiting Associate Professor in Judaic Studies
Yale University (2022-2023)
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
“A Talmudic Monk: R’ Shimon bar Yochai’s Stay in a Cave”
Tuesday, November 15 @8:00pm – Dr. Shari Rabin
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Chair of Jewish Studies
Oberlin College
“Dissent, Providentialism, and Slavery: A New Interpretation of Early Charleston Jewish Life”
Wednesday, December 14 @8:00pm – Dr. Rachel Hallote
Professor of History Purchase College SUNY Archeologist
“Politics and Archaeology in Israel”
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 @8:00pm – Dr. Jordan Katz
Assistant Professor, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tuesday, March 14 @8:00pm — Dr. Lauren Gottlieb Lockshin
Assistant Professor of History Touro College, Lander College for Women
“Defending Dreyfus: The First Modern Fight Against Antisemitism”
Wednesday, May 17 @8:30 pm: Dr. Marion Kaplan
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History
New York University
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