This program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Click here to register (a free Zoom account is required). For decades, Israeli cinema has told and shown the Jewish national story…...

Please click here to register for this event. Click here to purchase the first volume of From Tiberias, with Love: A Collection of Tiberian Hasidism from Afikomen Judaica. In the year 1777, a group of Jewish spiritual seekers from Eastern Europe set sail in search of a promised land. Weathering challenges…...

Click here to register. Most of the Judeo-Spanish or Ladino Sephardi song repertoire was traditionally sung by women. This presentation will explore the main genres of these songs in the Sephardi cultures of the old Ottoman region (Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans) and the western Mediterranean, specifically Morocco. Romances (narrative…...

This virtual program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Click here to register (a free Zoom account is required). Through an examination of the works of Ruth Klüger, Imre Kertesz,…...

This virtual program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Click here to register (a free Zoom account is required). In the Middle Ages a religious movement emerged that posed a…...

This virtual program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Click here to register (a free Zoom account is required). Anxieties and accusations concerning Jewish “usury” play a prominent role in…...

This virtual program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Click here to register (a free Zoom account is required). The phenomenon of women interpreting the Bible and applying it to…...

This virtual program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Click here to register (a free Zoom account is required). Though classical rabbinic texts are fundamental to understanding the history and…...