Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a teaching & syllabus workshop led by:

Kirsten Collins (PhD Candidate, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

“Race and Religion: Theorizing Blackness and Jewishness”

***PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE***

Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at 5:30 PM Central

**Swift 403**

Kirsten’s syllabus, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

Pre-circulated syllabus: collins-syllabus workshop f2021

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Elena Hoffenberg (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)

“The Danger of Small Numbers:
Liebmann Hersch on National-Cultural Autonomy and Minority Rights”

Monday May 24, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Elena’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

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(Meeting ID: 998 0245 5626 / Password: hersch)

Pre-circulated Paper: Hoffenberg_Jewish Studies Workshop_May 24 2021

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Stephanie Kraver (PhD Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)

From Prophetic to Postcolonial Witnessing: 

Poetry of the First Lebanon War and Ravikovitch’s Representation of the Other

With a response by:

Ido Telem (PhD Student, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

Monday May 17, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Stephanie’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

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(Meeting ID: 953 9833 2525  /  Passcode: 263254)

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Eli Rosenblatt, PhD (Visiting Researcher, Northwestern University)

“Creole Ambivalence: Teroenga and the Politics of Jewishness in Caribbean Suriname, 1939-1965”

Monday May 3, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Eli’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

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(Meeting ID: 956 0374 2733 / Password: Jewishness )

Pre-circulated Paper: Rosenblatt_CreoleAmbivalence

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Kirsten Collins (PhD Student, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

“W(h)it(e)ness: Judaism, Race and Religion in Postwar France”

With a response by:

Samuel Catlin (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, University of Chicago)

Monday April 19, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Kirsten’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

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(Meeting ID: 938 2513 5149 / Password: Collins )

Pre-circulated Paper: Collins_Jewish Studies Workshop Proposal Draft

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Nurit Siegal (MAPSS, Political Science, University of Chicago)

“The Origins of Modern Antisemitism: The Rise of the Nation-State and the Suppression of Jews’ Ethnic Identity”

With a response by:

Tahel Goldsmith (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)

Monday April 12, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central (via Zoom)

Nurit’s paper, to be read in advance of the session, is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

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(Meeting ID: 960 9363 1381 / Password: Siegal2021 )

Pre-circulated Paper: Siegal_Jewish Studies Workshop

Dear All,

Jewish Studies Workshop Schedule – Spring 2021 

April 12

The Origins of Modern Antisemitism: The Rise of the Nation-State and the Suppression of Jews’ Ethnic Identity

Nurit Siegal (MAPSS Student in Political Science, University of Chicago)

April 19

W(h)it(e)ness: Judaism, Race and Religion in Postwar France

Kirsten Collins (PhD Student, Divinity School, University of Chicago)

May 3

Creole Ambivalence: The Politics of Jewishness in Caribbean Suriname, 1939-1959

Eli Rosenblatt, PhD (Visiting Researcher, Northwestern University)

May 17

From Prophetic to Postcolonial Witnessing: Poetry of the First Lebanon War and Ravikovitch’s Representation of “the Other”

Stephanie Kraver (PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)

May 24

 A Bundist and a Zionist? Liebmann Hersch on Cultural Autonomy and Minority Rights

Elena Hoffenberg (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:

Samuel Catlin (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, University of Chicago)

“No Sin to Limp: Geoffrey Hartman and the Question of Secular Criticism”