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And Dorothy Makes Ten, 2000, Penny Diane Wolin

Colloquia: Studying Jews

All colloquia take place at 12 noon in 202 S. Thayer Street, Room 2022. Email JudaicStudies@umich.edu or call 734-763-9047 for additional information.

  • Thursday, November 5
    Jenna Weissman Joselit, George Washington University
    Holy Moses!: The Americanization of the Ten Commandments
  • Thursday, November 19
    J.P. Dessel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    In Search of Biblical Elders: Public Space and Rural Elites in Pre-Monarchic Israel
  • Thursday, December 3
    Vanessa Ochs, Univeristy of Virginia
    The Stories Jewish Homes Tell
  • Thursday, January 14
    Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Tel Aviv University
    Reading Art: Text, Image and Interpretation: Early Modern Ashkenaz as a Test-Case
  • Thursday, January 28
    Michal Kravel-Tovi, Hebrew University
    Rite of Passing: (Ex)change of Identities between the State and the Subject in Contemporary Orthodox Conversion in Israel
  • Thursday, February 4
    Judith Goldstein, Vassar College
    Jews and Rosaries: Intercultural Objects in Contested Spaces
  • Thursday, February 11
    Michael Artzy, University of Haifa
    The Beginning? Coastal Pre-Israelite Cult Practices: The Case of Tel Nami
  • Thursday, February 18
    Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Warburg Institute, University of London
    Ibn Ezra’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: The Hebrew and the Latin Versions
  • Thursday, February 25
    Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam
    Torah for the Masses, Books for Sale: Yiddish Bibles in Amsterdam
  • Thursday, March 11
    Oded Zehavi, University of Haifa
    The Ram’s Song: for Shofar, Electronics and Instruments
  • Thursday, March 18
    David Stern, University of Pennsylvania
    The Tegernsee Haggadah: The Story of a Discovery
  • Thursday, March 25
    Jason vonEhrenkrook, University of Michigan
    Dangerous Images: The Jewish Idol Polemic and Constructions of Material Alterity
  • Thursday, April 8
    Paul Reitter, Ohio State University
    The Stuff of Generational Tension: The Expressionist Revolt and German-Jewish Material Culture

Frankel Institute

2111 Thayer Bldg.
University of Michigan
202 S. Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Phone: 734-763-9047
Fax: 734-936-2186
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies