Mondays, 1:00 -2:00 pm in-person and/or 8:00-9:00 pm on Zoom, July 11, 18 & 25 2022 (3 sessions) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. Fairy tales are reimagined, repurposed, and remixed, drawing deeply from leftist, labor, women’s, and Jewish history, as well as folklore and pop culture. Join us to discuss these imaginative and explosive stories. Class will…
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With Ana Igornov Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, July 14, 21 & 28, 2022 (3 sessions) Jewish inscriptions inform us about a number of aspects of Jewish life in antiquity: mobility, professions and occupations that Jews were engaged in, cultural interactions and many others. One of the areas of research that benefits enormously from Jewish epigraphy is that of Onomastics or the study of names. What kind of names were popular among Jews of the Diaspora? Did they use nicknames? What can…
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Mondays, 1:00 -2:00 pm in-person and/or 8:00-9:00 pm on Zoom, July 11, 18 & 25 2022 (3 sessions) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. Fairy tales are reimagined, repurposed, and remixed, drawing deeply from leftist, labor, women’s, and Jewish history, as well as folklore and pop culture. Join us to discuss these imaginative and explosive stories. Class will…
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With Carl Schrag Wednesdays, 6:15 – 7:30 pm, July 20 & 27 and August 3, 2022 (3 sessions) This special summer edition of our popular discussion-based class zooms in on local, national, and global news through a distinctly Jewish lens. We’ll talk about politics, Israel, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, rifts in our Jewish community, local and global Jewish affairs, campus life, and the intersection between these topics and more. Carl Schrag, who was the Editor of The Jerusalem Post, brings a journalist’s…
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With Ana Igornov Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, July 14, 21 & 28, 2022 (3 sessions) Jewish inscriptions inform us about a number of aspects of Jewish life in antiquity: mobility, professions and occupations that Jews were engaged in, cultural interactions and many others. One of the areas of research that benefits enormously from Jewish epigraphy is that of Onomastics or the study of names. What kind of names were popular among Jews of the Diaspora? Did they use nicknames? What can…
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Mondays, 1:00 -2:00 pm in-person and/or 8:00-9:00 pm on Zoom, July 11, 18 & 25 2022 (3 sessions) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. Fairy tales are reimagined, repurposed, and remixed, drawing deeply from leftist, labor, women’s, and Jewish history, as well as folklore and pop culture. Join us to discuss these imaginative and explosive stories. Class will…
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With Carl Schrag Wednesdays, 6:15 – 7:30 pm, July 20 & 27 and August 3, 2022 (3 sessions) This special summer edition of our popular discussion-based class zooms in on local, national, and global news through a distinctly Jewish lens. We’ll talk about politics, Israel, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, rifts in our Jewish community, local and global Jewish affairs, campus life, and the intersection between these topics and more. Carl Schrag, who was the Editor of The Jerusalem Post, brings a journalist’s…
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With Ana Igornov Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, July 14, 21 & 28, 2022 (3 sessions) Jewish inscriptions inform us about a number of aspects of Jewish life in antiquity: mobility, professions and occupations that Jews were engaged in, cultural interactions and many others. One of the areas of research that benefits enormously from Jewish epigraphy is that of Onomastics or the study of names. What kind of names were popular among Jews of the Diaspora? Did they use nicknames? What can…
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Mondays, 1:00 -2:00 pm in-person and/or 8:00-9:00 pm on Zoom, July 11, 18 & 25 2022 (3 sessions) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. Fairy tales are reimagined, repurposed, and remixed, drawing deeply from leftist, labor, women’s, and Jewish history, as well as folklore and pop culture. Join us to discuss these imaginative and explosive stories. Class will…
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With Carl Schrag Wednesdays, 6:15 – 7:30 pm, July 20 & 27 and August 3, 2022 (3 sessions) This special summer edition of our popular discussion-based class zooms in on local, national, and global news through a distinctly Jewish lens. We’ll talk about politics, Israel, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, rifts in our Jewish community, local and global Jewish affairs, campus life, and the intersection between these topics and more. Carl Schrag, who was the Editor of The Jerusalem Post, brings a journalist’s…
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