Monday October 16th, 2023
This panel brought together Omar Dajani, a PalesPalestinian-American scholar, and Mira Sucharov, a Canadian Jewish political scientist, who have spent the last two years intensively traveling to, and writing about, the region together. The session focused on the urgency of advancing the values of human life, equality, and freedom, as well as the challenges and opportunities of friendship across political communities.
"Jews, Otherness, Horror with Adam Lowenstein"
Tuesday November 15th, 2022
Jews and Horror Film Book Talk hosted by Adam Lowenstein
"Pitt Radio Roundtable with Rachel Kranson and Eve Wilder"
Friday October 28th, 2022
Jewish Studies Director Rachel Kranson and Jewish Studies Liaison Librarian Eve Wider were invited to Pitt College radio, WPTS, for a conversation about social justice, solidarity, the history of antisemitism, and the devastating impacts of the 10/27 attack in 2018.
"Conversation with Jonathan Ned Katz"
Monday September 12th, 2022
A webinar with Jonathan Ned Katz
"Hellenism, Hasmoneans, and Household Judaism"
Sunday April 10th, 2022
A hyridhybridure with Dr. Andrea Berlin of Boston University.
"The Afterlives of Trauma: Art and Memory"
Monday January 24th, 2022
A Virtual Exhibition: Laura S. Levitt, PhD Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies & Gender, Temple University
"Image and Memory: Jews, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in Romania"
Friday November 12th, 2021
Featuring: Cristina Albu, Andrew Behrendt, Ionut Biliuta, Adrian Cioflanca, Alexandra Chiriac, Roland Clark, Diana Dumitru, David Gerlach, Rachel Kranson, Thomas Ort, Sean Martin, Vladimir Solonari, Olga Stefan, Narcis Tulbure, plus Radu Jude's award-winning film "I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018)
"The Might of the Living Dead: Thinking With Zombies in Medieval Jewish Culture"
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
Lecture by Dr.David Shyovitz, Northwestern University
"The Crossroads" Album: Exploring Jewish and African-American Histories in the Hill District through Sound
Pitt Wire Article: "Senior Jazzes Up History"
Friday, April 9, 2021
A Talk by David Zahniser
"In the World to Come: An Emerging Genre"
Part 4 of the Four-Part Shazam! Series
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Lecture by Ben Schachter, Artist in Residence, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
"Akhnai Pizza: A Tasty Talmudic Debate"
Part 3 of the Four-Part Shazam! Series
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Lecture by Ben Schachter, Artist in Residence, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
"Vichy Law, the Holocaust, and the Dangers of 'Incrementalism' when Participating in a 'System of Evil'"
Friday, March 5, 2021
Lecture by Richard Weisberg, Yeshiva University, University of Pittsburgh
"Goshen in Goloshes: Biblical Adaptations"
Part 2 of the Four-Part Shazam! Series
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Lecture by Ben Schachter, Artist in Residence, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
"Bible Stories Then and Now"
Part 1 of the Four-Part Shazam! Series
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Lecture by Ben Schachter, Artist in Residence, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
"Jewish Anxieties over Suburbanization, 1945-1965"
February 6, 2013
Lecture by Rachel Kranson
"Sexing American Jewish History"
Friday, February 12, 2021
Moderator: Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Discussants: Gillian Frank, University of Virginia; Rachel Kranson, University of Pittsburgh; Jonathan Krasner, Brandeis University
"When the Jews Met the Squirrels"
October 14, 2012
Lecture by Barbara Burstin
"Putting Pittsburgh on the Map of American Jewish History"
November 11, 2012
Lecture by Deborah Dash Moore