This lecture series, held throughout the 2021–22 academic year, will explore the ongoing phenomenon of anti-Semitism by examining its myriad historical contexts and relationships to other forms of prejudice and hatred.
Anti-Semitism and Christianity, A Lecture by Magda Teter of Fordham University
Anti-Semitism and Racism: Entangled Genealogies, A Lecture by Jonathan Judaken of Rhodes College
Anti-Semitism and Ableism, A Lecture by Katherine Sorrels of the University of Cincinnati
Hegeman 204A6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Hamas’ attack on October 7 and Israel’s invasion of Gaza have had a profound impact on Israel, Palestine, and far beyond. How might we consider these events in the context of the history of Zionism, of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and of antisemitism?
We hope that an important part of the discussion will be questions from those attending about current events and the long, complex evolution that produced them. We will respond as best we can from our various perspectives.
Cecile E. Kuznitz, Patricia Ross Weis '52 Chair in Jewish History and Culture Joel Perlmann, Professor, Bard College and Senior Scholar, Levy Institute Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Professor of Judaism, moderator
Monday, November 13, 2023
With English Subtitles Campus Center, Weis Cinema5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Hebrew Program announces the screening of Zero Motivation (2014) Weis Cinema – Monday, November 13, 2023 5:00–7:00 pm (with English subtitles) The story of Israeli female soldiers on a distant military base. Funny; sad; suspenseful; and not even a little sentimental.
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, May 5, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, April 21, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, April 14, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Monday, April 10, 2023
Federica Francesconi (University at Albany, SUNY) Olin 2015:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This lecture will explore Jewish women’s cultural survival in the early modern Italian ghettos through two case studies. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, many Jewish women produced textiles in their own homes. They created an informal community of female artisans that challenged the anonymity of their underpaid work and even their invisibility in the religious domain. Additionally, in 1735 twenty-two well-to-do Jewish women in Modena established a confraternity for mutual aid to “all sick women, rich and poor, in the ghetto.” This body involved women of all classes as administrators, workers, and caregivers and offered “invisible” Jewish women a degree of agency without subverting existing Jewish social and legal structures. Both these “communities” created female spaces that were economic, social, and devotional resources and reconfigured women’s presence in ghettoized societies.
Federica Francesconi is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her book Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (UPenn Press, 2021), won the 2022 Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association and was a 2021 National Jewish Books Awards Finalist. She is the co-editor of Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present (Wayne State UP 2021), which was also a 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist.
Friday, April 7, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, March 31, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, March 24, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, March 17, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, March 10, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, March 3, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Monday, February 27, 2023
Silent film screening with live original music Ottaway Film Center7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The Man Without a World is set in a Polish shetl at the turn of the 20th century, where two star-crossed lovers seek happiness as the villagers struggle with antisemitism and political infighting. The film is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director Yevgeny Antinov. But in fact it is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, who made the film in 1991.
The film will be accompanied by live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin.
Following the screening Svigals and Sosin will discuss their work with Professors Joshua Glick, Cecile Kuznitz, Masha Shpolberg, and Richard Suchenski.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, February 17, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Friday, February 10, 2023
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Friday evening we gather for a Shabbat prayer service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome!
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Arendt Center1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Rabbi Joshua Boettiger.