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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

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