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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Join us for Author Conversations with Michelle U. Campos and Or Aleksandrowicz, editors of "Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930: A Memoir" on Tuesday, November 3, at 12 PM Eastern (live on Zoom)

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The next meeting of the 2026-2027 Jewish Studies Colloquium is on October 13, 2026, at 12:45 PM EST. Marc Herman presents "The Lives and Afterlives of Maimonides's 'Book of Commandments.'" Light kosher lunch is at 12:30. More: t.co/j9SJx8J3Za

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The first meeting of the 2026-2027 Jewish Studies Colloquium is on September 29, 2026, at 12:45 PM EST. Jonathan Decter Presents "Jewish Thinking about Religion in the Islamic Middle Ages." Light kosher lunch is at 12:30. More: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on April 14, 2026, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Sari J. Siegel (@ushmm.bsky.social ) presenting "Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in the Industrial Subcamps of Auschwitz". More: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Join us tomorrow on Wed. March 25, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET (US) for "After the Holocaust...," which will channel the conversation between Laura Jockusch (Tauber Institute-affiliated faculty), Sarah Cushman, and others about how the history of the aftermath shapes Holocaust research and education.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Join us for “The Question of Unworthy Life: Disability in Germany before and after the Holocaust,” presented by Dagmar Herzog on Tues, Mar. 17, 2026, 3:30 - 5:00 pm ET (US). The event will be held in person (Lown 315, @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social) and on Zoom

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Tomorrow's meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium, featuring Alexandra Szabo's (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social) presentation of her paper, will be held on Zoom ONLY at 12:30 pm EST. To register, please follow the link below: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Join us at the University of Chicago for the launch of a new Greenberg Center series to discuss the new translation of Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche’s memoir, Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930. The event will be held on Monday, February 23, at 5 pm in the Swift Hall Common Room, 1025 E. 58th St.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on February 24, 2026, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Tamar Aizenberg @brandeispress.bsky.social presenting "Mass Sterilization Experiments in the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial (USA v. Karl Brandt et al.)". More info: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on January 20, 2026, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Thomas Burman (@notredame.bsky.social) presenting "Ramon Martí on the Advent of Christ: Deploying Rabbinical Sources for Christian Purposes". More: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on December 9, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Jonathan Elukin (@trinitycollege.bsky.social ) presenting "Can a Jew Love? Christians, Emotions, and Jewish History". More: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Join us on December 2nd for "Israel/Palestine as a Shared Space: Historical Failures and Alternative Pathways for the Future" with Professor Yuval Evri @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social .

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Join us on December 2nd, "The Camera as Witness: Visual Storytelling in the West Bank" with award-winning visual storyteller Emily Glick. RSVP by 11/23 with this link: tinyurl.com/emilyglick

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on November 18, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Tamar Aizenberg (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social) presenting "Grandchildren of Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators, and Holocaust Memory". More info: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join author Thomas Blubacher and scholars Cynthia Porter and Anjeana Hans for a discussion of the broader context of Blubacher's recently translated book "Weimar Under the Palms." The event will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 5:00 - 6:30 pm ET (US).

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Tonight, @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Rapaporte Treasure Hall is hosting “Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict,” presented by Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD. The event is sponsored by @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social, cosponsored by the Schusterman Center.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Join our colleagues at the Mandel Center for the Humanities on Monday, Oct 20 for “Witnessing as Memory Activism: Perspectives from Two Berlin-Based Migrant Groups,” with Prof Irit Dekel (Indiana University), 2:30-3:50 pm in Mandel 303. Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Join us for another Author Conversation, featuring Sven-Erik Rose, author of "Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos". The event will be held on Thursday, October 23, at 12:30 pm. Free and open to the public. A light kosher lunch will be served.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on October 21, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Ehud Krinis (@bengurionuni.bsky.social) presenting "Through the Sufi Curtain: Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart and the Islamic Zuhd Tradition." More info: brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Our colleagues at the Mandel Center for the Humanities invite you to a book event with award-winning Israeli author Tehila Hakimi on Thursday, September 25, from 1:20–2:10 pm in Mandel 303. Hakimi will read from her recent novel, "Hunting in America," and talk about her work.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Join us Monday, September 15, for "Interreligious Dialogue, Missteps, and Opportunities: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Question of Antisemitism," a presentation by Benjamin E. Sax. The event will take place at 12:00 pm in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Forum.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Join us for another Author Conversation, featuring Noa Shashar, author of The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 10, at 12 pm in Lown 315 and is free and open to the public. A light kosher lunch will be served. shorturl.at/v3hAN

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on September 9, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Trevor Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) presenting "Alexandre Kojève's Sophia, or the Misfortunes of Wisdom." More info: www.brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Watch the recording of the Tauber Institute's 61st Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture with Juliet Carey, Senior Curator @waddesdonmanor.bsky.social, and Abigail Green, Professor of Modern European History @ox.ac.uk, delivering the lecture "Jewish Country Houses: Memory and Heritage".

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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Join HBI Conversations on May 14 w/ Noa Shashar, “The Marital Knot, Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850”, an exploration of Jewish family life in early modern Europe. Cosponsored by @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social. A @brandeispress.bsky.social pub. 12:30 pm EDT/Online. Register: bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May 14, join HBI online for the year's final Conversations event w/ Noa Shashar, “The Marital Knot, Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850” an exploration of Jewish family life in early modern Europe. Cosponsor @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social 12:30 pm EDT @brandeispress.bsky.social bit.ly/HBIEVENTS 1/

Top: Brandeis Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series, The Marital Knot, Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm 1648-1850, and book cover image below showing a woman's dress composed of hundreds of shredded marriage certificates. Left side text: Cosponsored by The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University. Right side text: May 14, 12:30 pm EDT, online, with a photo of Noa Shahar.

Text: The Marital Knot masterfully interweaves women's voices from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, revealing a rich tapestry of law and culture in which human destiny resonantly whispers…–Maoz Kahana, Tel Aviv University. Image of a woman's dress composed of hundreds of shredded marriage certificates.

Image of Marital Knot book cover: a woman's dress composed of hundreds of shredded marriage certificates with text: The Marital Knot, Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850. Bottom - Noa Shashar. Side text: Book cover image: Andi Arnovitz "Coat of the Agunot" (2010), a composition of hundreds of shredded marriage certificates.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

On May 30th, 2025, at 2 PM ET, the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and Shakespeare & Company are honored to present “Chaim Weizmann and the Two State Solution” with Jehuda Reinharz, PhD, President Emeritus of Brandeis University.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Tomorrow, on Tuesday, March 25, at 4:30 pm EST, Juliet Carey, Senior Curator @waddesdonmanor.bsky.social, and Juliet Carey, Professor of Modern European History @ox.ac.uk, will deliver the 61st Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall in the Brandeis Library.

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on March 18, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Noa Tsaushu (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) presenting "Yiddish Art: The Formal and Social Functions of Marginality." More info: brandeis.edu/tauber/event...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Jewish Country Houses, edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green and published by @brandeispress.bsky.social, was featured in the most recent edition of the New York Times Book Review. Click the link below to read the article and buy the book from Brandeis University Press: linktr.ee/tauberinstit...

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Colloquium is on January 28, 2025, at 12:30 pm EST, featuring Naomi Seidman (@uoft.bsky.social) & Joshua Shanes (@cofcharleston.bsky.social) presenting "Haredi/Ultra-Orthodox Writings: Definitions, History, and Canon." More info: tinyurl.com/y9awpvmy

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

📚 A New Orient is officially out! I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series. (Thread 👇)

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The Tauber Institute @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

TOMORROW! Rebecca Wittmann will present "Haunted and Hallowed Grounds: Confronting the German Past in the First Person" at the Jewish Studies Colloquium on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. More info and Zoom registration: tinyurl.com/2yzcsnrw

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