Upcoming Events


Thursday, March 04, 2010
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Jewish Time/Christian Time: Calendar and Polemic in Early Modern Europe
Professor Elisheva Carlebach will speak on "Jewish Time/Christian Time: Calendar and Polemic in Early Modern Europe"Elisheva Carlebach is the Salo Baron Professor of Jewish history at Columbia University. She is the author of an award winning book "The Pursuit of Heresy :Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies" (Columbia University Press, 1990; 1994) and "Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750" (Yale University Press, 2001) which was the finalist for the 2001-02 National Jewish Book Award
Location: PAC 004
Sponsor: Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/jis
Contact: Magda Teter, mteter@wesleyan.edu


Thursday, April 15, 2010
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Blood and Identity: Picart's La Circoncision des Juifs Portugais
Hilit Surowitz: Blood and Identity: Picart's La Circoncision des Juifs Portugais Hilit Surowitz teaches Jewish Studies at Rutgers University and is working on Transatlantic history of Sephardic Jews.
Location: PAC 004
Sponsor: Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/jis
Contact: mteter@wesleyan.edu