Join the editors for a lively virtual conversation
Moderated by Scott Lasensky
Date: Wed November 18, 2020, 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom
Click here for more informationJoin the editors for a lively virtual conversation
Moderated by Scott Lasensky
Date: Wed November 18, 2020, 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom
Click here for more informationSchools, Synagogues, and Funerals: American Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Response to Covid-19
Monday, November 9 at 12:00 pm
Via Zoom.
Register here: https://umd.zoom.us/j/...
Click here for more informationThis event is co-sponsored by the Miller Center and the European Caucus, and it is part of the Miller Center's Truth and History Series. The trial of Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie in 1987 was the first French trial that focused on the Holocaust. This talk will focus on Barbie’s attorney Jacques Vergès, still a celebrated figure on the anti-colonial and anti-Zionist French left. Vergès argued that French Jews had constructed a monster out of Barbie, forging the written evidence against him while hiding evidence of French Jewish...
Click here for more informationJoin current and prospective Jewish Studies and Religious Studies students and faculty for a free lunch and an opportunity to network and learn about our programs.Learn about our brand-new Religions of the Ancient Middle East (RAME) major, speak to RAME faculty, and learn if it’s a good fit for you.Meet students with similar interests, speak with faculty and advisors, and learn about new classes being offered in the Fall 2020 semester.Lunch will be vegetarian and kosher certified.RSVP to...
Click here for more informationArie Dubnov is an associate professor of history and the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at the George Washington University. This talk will be looking at some of the "maximalists” — an eclectic group of intellectuals and warriors who chose the path of open confrontation and military struggle with both Palestinian-Arabs and the British mandatory forces in the 1930s and ‘40s.
The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies along with The Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and History Department, Nathan &...
Click here for more informationThe Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies presents:
A lecture:
Dr. Zvi Zohar, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Sephardic Law and Ethics, Bar Ilan University (Emeritus) , Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
“The Rabbi and the Sufi Sheikh: A Tale of Mystical Quest and Human Relationship in the 18th Century Damascus”
An amazing account, published in 1842 by a leading Sephardic rabbi of Jerusalem, paints a fascinating picture of a personal, intellectual and spiritual...
Click here for more informationPlease come to a FREE concert “Remembering the Jews of Greece: A Musical Journey” on the evening of Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 7 PM.
The concert will feature traditional songs and original compositions in Ladino, the Judaeo-Spanish language of the Sephardim, by singer Sarah Aroeste in a multimedia performance featuring stories and video footage from Aroeste’s own family.
This special evening will take place in the Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Fine Arts Building, The University of Maryland, College Park and is co-sponsored...
Click here for more informationRoshan Institute for Persian Studies and The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Centerfor Jewish Studies Present
Opening Remarks
Marsha Rozenblit
Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History
University of Maryland, College Park
Architecture and the Dilemma of Identity: The Case of Iranian Synagogues
Mohammad Gharipour
Professor of Architectural History
Morgan State University, Baltimore
Synagogue Architecture...
Click here for more informationThe Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies presents:
A lecture: “Medical Recipes in the Talmud: What They Teach Us Beyond Medicine”
Dr. Monika Amsler (PhD, Surich 2018), Post-doctoral research fellow at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Noon – 2 PM
2120 Francis Scott Key Hall, 4282 Chapel Lane, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The Babylonian Talmud repeatedly cites medical recipes. These recipes have often been termed irrational, folkloristic or even magical...
Click here for more informationYou 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
4141 Susquehanna Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-4975