You are invited to join us as we recognize and celebrate the graduating class of Spring 2019.
Please RSVP: jwst-contact@umd.edu
Campus-Wide Ceremony, Xfinity Center
Friday, May 24, 2019 / 1:00 PM
For more information: https://umd.edu/commencement/spring-2019
Professor Emanuel Thorne discusses his fathers memoir, "It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival."
Rabbi Leon Thorne was born in Eastern Galicia and was ordained as a rabbi at age nineteen. He received his Ph.D. from University of Wuerzberg and became a chaplain in the Polish army in 1944.
His extraordinary history/memoir, written in part while in hiding in a small underground bunker below a Polish peasants pigsty, recounts his harrowing experience during the Holocaust. Emanuel Thorne, Rabbi...
Click here for more informationJesus’ procession into Jerusalem commonly called “The Triumphal Entry” was not a simple, humble ride on the back of a donkey, but actually a well-choreographed attempt at recreating the ancient coronation ceremony of Israel’s early kings. Professor Robert R. Cargill explains the symbolism behind the Triumphal Entry and why this event was such a provocative action to both the Romans and Jewish authorities in first century Jerusalem.
Dr. Robert R. Cargill is Associate Professor or Classics and Religious Studies at the...
Click here for more information"Computational Transcription of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Crowdsourcing theirCorrections"
Professor Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 PM
MITH, 0301 Hornbake Library
Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Research Professor of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, University Paris Sciences-Letters. Dr. Ben Ezra has worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Rabbinics and ancient Jewish-Christian relations.
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Click here for more informationToledot Yeshu is a Jewish parodic account of the life of Jesus that is first attested in the early Middle Ages. Stoekl shows that the text must be considerably earlier—perhaps the fifth century CE—and that the Christian authors knew more than a little about contemporary Christians and Christianity.What, then, does this text tell us about Jews,about Christians, and about how they interacted in late antiquity.
Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Research Professor of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic at the Ecole...
Click here for more informationAdi Mahalel's book attends to the works of I. L. Peretz, locating them within the rise of modern Jewish culture and politics. Peretz's stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence are engagingly discussed in their broader contexts, as well in their finer artistic and ideological nuances.
By offering close readings of Peretz's work, in Yiddish and Hebrew, and by examining the ways he revolutionized the means of artistic production, the book recasts the way political activism is understood.
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In the Hebrew Bible, covenants serve to create communal identity. This identity is reinforced in rabbinic literature, and extended and emended in Christian and Muslim scriptures. This lecture will draw attention to strategies articulated in Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts that shed light on how competing claims to the covenant are addressed. It will focus on the New Testament and the Qur’an, as well as explore extra-canonical Jewish texts, in particular rabbinic midrashim that attest to a need to address issues that arise from claims...
Click here for more informationThe oldest complete Torah Scroll in the world today is preserved in the magnificent library of Alma Mater Studiorum, The University of Bologna. This scroll, which originates from the East, can be dated to the Twelfth or Thirteenth Centuries. Professor Penkower, an expert in the study of the Hebrew Bible, its canonization and transmission in both manuscript and print, is the first scholar to have analyzed this scroll in depth. He will present his findings in an illustrated lecture, showing the history, meaning, and halakhic significance of...
Click here for more informationIs it true that Hasidism dominated most of Eastern European Jewry already by the end of the eighteenth century? What were the borders of Hasidic influence? When, how and why did they change? Which Hasidic dynasties were the strongest and why? How strong is Hasidism today? These and other questions inform the lecture about the geography of this most important socio-religious movement in Judaism.
Marcin Wodzinski was born and raised in Silesia, Poland. He currently works at the Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw,...
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