Public Spring 2021 Webinars by Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Armin Lange: From Plague to Coronavirus: The Myth of Jewish Disease-Spreading and the Old Roots of a Contemporary Slander, February 14, 2021. More
The Boston University Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for a multi-year Postdoctoral Associate Teaching Position in Israel Studies.
H-Judaic is saddened to learn, belatedly, of the passing of Prof. Donald D. Leslie (1922-2020), pioneering scholar of the Chinese Jewish community, who also wrote about Islam in China and other aspects of China's relationship with world religions.
Rabbi Anson Laytner has favored us with this necrology:
With the world focused on COVID-19, the death last April of Prof. Donald Daniel Leslie, considered one of the foremost scholars of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, passed almost unnoticed.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | 12:00pm ET | Zoom
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from individuals and institutions to co-organize research workshops in conjunction with the Mandel Center in 2022.
This week the International Survey of Jewish Monuments presents the online exhibition “Romaniote Memories, A Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece, to Manhattan: Photographs by Vincent Giordano,” in partnership with the Hellenic American Project at Queens College, and in collaboration with Queens College Special Collections and Archives (SCA) at Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College.
The Journal of Austrian Studies
presents a JAS Webinar:
Czernowitz
Join the contributors to the JAS special issue on Czernowitz (53.3)
as they discuss the city’s enduring historical, literary, and cultural significance.
Webinar Speakers include:
Dear Colleagues,
Please join the UC Davis Jewish Studies program for the New Directions in Jewish Studies lecture series, which features research by scholars working outside the tenure track. Our next talk is "California Reds: Young Jewish Communists in the 1930's," by Caroline Luce, on February 10 at 12 PM PST via Zoom. David Biale will offer a brief response and open the discussion. Please find a poster, abstract, and registration link below.
A calendar of the whole series follows as well.
all the best,
