Faculty
- Nir Evron published a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about how teaching and scholarship are inescapably political. Click here to read his article, "The University Has Always Been 鈥楲iberal.鈥 That鈥檚 a Good Thing:
- Elias Sacks has signed a contract with Yale University Press to produce the first English translation of The Guide of the Perplexed of the Time (Moreh Nevukei Ha-zeman), the unfinished Hebrew magnum opus of the Eastern
- Prof. Gregory Grobmeier will be doing a two-part lecture series for Trinity Academy at Trinity United Methodist Church in downtown Denver on 3/16 and 3/23. The talk is titled, "Philosophy in Dark Times." More details at:
- Prof. Yonatan Malin recently collaborated Daniel Shanahan (Northwestern University) to produce the website Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski鈥檚 Jewish Instrumental Folk Music. A companion article will be
- Nir Evron will give a talk at the Center of American West on January 29, 2025. Register by January 21 to attend Prof. Evron's talk: "Owen Wister's The Virginian: The Western Genre and the Shaping of the Modern Human-Animal
- Samira Mehta has joined the advisory board of the Jewish of Color Collecting Project at the Smithsonian-affiliated Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Prof. Yonatan Malin is presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies this week. The title of his paper is 鈥淭he Musical Tapestry of Klezmer: A Computational Approach to Beregovski鈥檚 Jewish
- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's latest publication, a chapter on "Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Jewish History鈥 was just published in German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship
- Professor Pegelow Kaplan was invited and is now serving on Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)'s selection committee for its International Book Prize for a monograph on the Shoah. Outside members are "renowned