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The Tauber Institute at Brandeis University is devoted to the study of modern European Jewish history, thought, culture and society
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 .
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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).
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.
October 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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...
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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.
September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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.
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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...
September 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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May 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview I talk with Noa Shashar over The Marital Knot: Agunot in the #Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850 @brandeispress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians #JewishHistory

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May 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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/
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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"The Marital Knot" is a @brandeispress.bsky.social publication in the Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law, created under the auspices of HBI and @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social. Available at brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/the-ma... #agunah #jewishhistory #agunot #jewishlaw
The Marital Knot
This book tells the family stories of men and women who lived hundreds of years ago. Focusing on agunot, literally “chained women,” who were often considered a marginal group,...
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May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
April 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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.
March 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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...
March 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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...
March 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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January 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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🎤 Upcoming Event: Join me for an online conversation with Prof. Arie Dubnov (GWU) on Wednesday, January 24th, at 1 pm (EST).
Register here: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Author Conversations: "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" with Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov. After registering, you wil...
Join the Tauber Institute for another installment of our Author Conversations, this time featuring Amit Levy, author of "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel," in...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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📚 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.

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January 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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
December 9, 2024 at 6:55 PM