Nan Goodman

End of the Year Letter from Director Nan Goodman

May 31, 2016

In Act I, Scene 1 of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, 鈥淵ou Can鈥檛 Take It With You,鈥 the character known as Grandpa, the patriarch of the eccentric Vanderhof family, returns home after attending the graduation ceremony at Columbia University, which he does every year for the sheer...

Elias Sacks

Elias Sacks Publishes Article on Franz Rosenzweig, Forthcoming Book Appearing in Fall 2016

May 23, 2016

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an essay in the Jewish Review of Books. Entitled 鈥 Saving the World ,鈥 the essay explores recent scholarship on the German-Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig and his near-conversion to...

Eyal Rivlin

Eyal Rivlin Receives CU-Engage Fellowship

May 20, 2016

Eyal Rivlin , Hebrew Language Instructor, received a CU-Engage Fellowship as part of a cohort of faculty spearheading community-based learning initiatives on campus. Professor Rivlin, who will be leading the Jewish Studies Internship during the 2016-2017 academic year, relays that the class "will be designed to create a dialogue between...

Yonatan Malin

Yonatan Malin Publishes Article on Jewish Cantillation

May 20, 2016

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, published " Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis " in Yuval , the online journal of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will be presenting current research on relations between music analysis and...

Hebrew students performing

Eyal Rivlin Jams with Students in Second Annual Hebrew Shmooze-A-Palooza

April 5, 2016

On March 2, the Program in Jewish Studies hosted its second annual Hebrew Shmooze-A-Palooza, a musical celebration of the Hebrew and Yiddish classes at CU-Boulder. Lead by Eyal Rivlin , Hebrew Instructor at CU, students prepared musical arrangements in Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and Yiddish and performed them for their...

Nan Goodman

Director Nan Goodman on Thinking 春水堂视频 Inclusive Excellence in Jewish Studies

April 1, 2016

After a sobering recent report on how excluded and ill at ease various groups of racially and ethnically identified students feel at the University of Colorado, faculty, staff, students, and administrators are turning their attention to issues of inclusivity with the goal of making the campus feel more like home...

Elias Sacks

Elias Sacks Publishes two Articles on Moses Mendelssohn

March 28, 2016

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published two articles on Moses Mendelssohn, a leading Enlightenment philosopher generally seen as the founder of modern Jewish theology. The first article 鈥 "Anarchy and Law: Mendelssohn on Philosophy and...

Sasha Senderovich

Sasha Senderovich Presents Research at the University of Illinois and Harvard

March 28, 2016

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, is spending the current semester on research leave as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Senderovich presented a chapter of his book in progress, Seekers of Happiness: Mobility, Culture,...

Yonatan Malin

Yonatan Malin Talks about Ethnography and Analysis in Jewish Music Research

March 28, 2016

Yonatan Malin , Associate Professor of Music Theory and Jewish Studies, spoke about his research on February 1 at a colloquium in the College of Music at CU Boulder. Malin's talk, "Analytical Stories, Ethnography, and Cultural Values," focused on the stories that we tell with music analysis how these relate...

Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos to Participate in Two Day Colloquium on Mediterranean Jewry at Universit脿 di Salento

March 24, 2016

On May 30鈥31, Brian Catlos , Professor of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Director of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group, has been invited to take part in "The Intimate Sea: Jews, Families, and Networks in the Mediterranean, " a two day colloquium sponsored by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies...

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