Please join us in congratulating Alma Gur and Riley Martin, the recipients of the 2026 Kunitz Award!
Alma’s paper, “Reproductive and Sexual Regulation in the Tanakh,” combines contemporary conversations surrounding women’s bodies with an in-depth analysis of the Hebrew Bible. Through careful textual analysis, she constructs a compelling account of fertility, barrenness, and virginity as tools used by divine and patriarchal authority to regulate and define women. Her paper offers a thoughtful and insightful examination of gender and power in biblical texts.
Professor Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss (Tel Aviv University) in conversation with Sven-Erik Rose about her book, The People’s Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943 (Brandeis University Press, in association with Yad Vashem, 2026)
Please join us for our Spring Books and Bagels event. Professor Carey Seal, UC Davis Professor in Classics, will be presenting on "Philo of Alexandria and Philosophy as a Way of Life".
CONTESTING COSMOGRAPHIESMuslim Views of the Cosmos from Late Antiquity to Modernity A public lecture by Dr. Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) Monday, May 114:30 – 6:00 PM (lecture & Q&A)Everson 157Open to the public · All are welcome ------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE TALKFrom the Qur'anic commentaries of the second/eighth century to theeventual triumph of Copernicanism, Muslim thinkers held — andcontested — radically different visions of the cosmos.
Sven-Erik Rose, Book Talk in the series “Flight or Fight: Stories of Artists under Repression,” hosted by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, New York, February 25, 2026. This lecture focuses on Leyb Goldin’s autobiographical Warsaw Ghetto story “Khronik fun a mes-les” (“Chronicle of 24 hours”).
Please join us for our Winter Books and Bagels event. Professor Joshua Shanes, Emanual Ringelblum of Jewish History, will be presenting and discussing his book Orthodoxy: A Modern Denomination.
After a screening of the short film Mazel Tov Cocktail (directed by Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch, 2020), Professors Jenny Kaminer and Sven-Erik Rose facilitated a lively discussion. Naturally over bagels.
Please join us in congratulating Sasha Lehrer and Ronnie Ottaway, the recipients of the 2025 Kunitz Award!
Sasha's paper was entitled "Time and Timelessness in Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography." The panel reviewing papers said that Sasha's paper is remarkable as she writes adeptly about Maimon’s different uses of temporal simultaneity and juxtaposition, on the one hand, and linear chronology, on the other, to emphasize continuities and discontinuities between different periods in his life and intellectual journey.
