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Upcoming Lectures & Events
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Jewish Societies and Cultures Seminar,
Harvard Center for the Humanities
and the Center for Jewish Studies
present
Magda Teter
Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University
and Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University
"Sacrilege and Host Desecrations:
Politics and Power in Early Modern Poland"
Wednesday, May 14,2008
5:00 pm
Harvard Center for the Humanities,
Room 133, Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
Leon I Mirell Lecture Fund
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Jewish Societies and Cultures Seminar,
Harvard Center for the Humanities
and the Center for Jewish Studies
present
Ronit Irshai
Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Judaism,
Harvard Divinity School Lecturer of Jewish philosophy and feminism and faculty member of Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University
"Asking the Woman's Question and the Halakhic Verdict: the Case of Hatam Sofer on Contraception"
Thursday, May 15, 2008
4:00 pm
Harvard Center for the Humanities,
Room 133, Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
Friends of the Center of Jewish Studies
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New Approaches:
Home, Nation, and Landedness in Modern Jewish Identity
A Graduate Student Conference
co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
Please click here for more details
The Humanities Center at Harvard:
Please see the Humanities Center website for more information
Harvard Hillel:
Please see the Harvard Hillel website for more information on Rosovsky Hall and directions
Events Announcements
2008 Starr Seminar Calendear
All Starr Seminars take place in the Starr Seminar Room, Room 123,
Vanserg Hall - 29 Francis Avenue.
at
10:15am
Thursday, February 14
Emanuel Etkes
Title: "Son or Disciple: The War of Succession Over the Leadership Of Habad, 1812-1814”
Thursday, February 21
Mordechai Zalkin
Title: “Experience of Childhood and its Formation in East European Jewish Society”
Thursday, February 28
ChaeRan Freeze
Title: “Transforming Stigmatized Bodies into Valuable Commodities: Wetnursing and Illegal Services for Unwed Jewish Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Vil'na”
Thursday, March 6
Cengiz Sisman
Title: “Transmission of Knowledge in the Shabbatean Families (17th-20th centuries)”
Thursday, March 13
Evyatar Marienberg
Title: “The History of Jewish Sex Guides”
Thursday, March 20
Joseph Davis
Title: "Reading the Mail: Ideas of Family in the Yiddish Letters of November 22, 1619"
Thursday, April 3
Lois Dubin
Title: "One Woman, Two Husbands, Two States, Three Laws: Making Jewish Marriage Civil in the Late 18th Century"
Thursday, May 8
ChaeRan Freeze and Jay Harris
Title: TBA