Voices Far and Near: Translating Contemporary Israeli Poetry

Art by Keren Katz Voices Far and Near: Translating Contemporary Israeli Poetry March 25, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST Register Adriana X. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford and author of "Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry" (2018). Her work on contemporary Hebrew and […]

Saviors on the Screen

Saviors on the Screen Virtual Series A series of films presented in commemoration of Yom Hashoah SUN, APR 04 – THU, APR 08 10:00 AM – 11:59 PM $12.00 Read more Buy Season Pass

Русский “гений места” в Бостоне

Двадцатый век в Бостоне отмечен созвездием русских имен. Американская “колыбель революции” стала пристанищем наследников петербургского Серебряного века. Загадочные и драматические истории столицы Новой Англии составят основу второй лекции Леонида Спивака о роли Бостона в русской культуре. Вход бесплатный. Регистрация обязательна. Зарегистрироваться

Annual Gathering of Remembrance

Annual Gathering of Remembrance Sunday, April 11 | 2 PM ET online Every year, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage's Annual Gathering of Remembrance, we bring together thousands as a community to say: we will never forget. The Jewish people persist, and we will not allow the memory of millions to pass into stony silence. We […]

Preserving our Collective Memory: Bridging Generations Virtual Community Holocaust Commemoration of Yom HaShoah

Preserving our Collective Memory: Bridging Generations Virtual Community Holocaust Commemoration of Yom HaShoah BJoin JCRC for our annual Holocaust Commemoration recognizing the 25th anniversary of the New England Holocaust Memorial. This virtual event will feature the moving reflections of our survivors. Through their stories, music, art and poetry - we remember. Through their lessons - we […]

Judaeophobia and Palestinophilia: Symptoms of Emancipation Anxiety in Late Imperial Russia

Moses (1904), E. M. Lilien Judaeophobia and Palestinophilia: Symptoms of Emancipation Anxiety in Late Imperial Russia April 15, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST Register Olga Litvak is the Laurie B. and Eric M. Roth Professor of Modern European Jewish History at Cornell University. A specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of Jews in Eastern […]

A Conversation with Jehuda Reinharz

Chaim Weizmann, the Forgotten Founder: A Conversation with Jehuda Reinharz Apr 15, 2021 07:00 PM When the great biochemist Chaim Weizmann was elected president of Israel in 1949, he had been a key figure in Zionist politics for five decades. In fact, as historian Jehuda Reinharz has shown in his magisterial three-volume biography, it is […]

The Zionist Phantom 1

Please join us for two exciting events to launch our first ever virtual art exhibition in conjunction with Brandeis University's Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, April 25-May 1, 2021. The Zionist Phantom - Exhibition Launch and Artist Talk with Prof. Dana Arieli and Dr. Rotem Rozental Monday, April 26, 2021 11:30 AM – 12:30 […]

The Zionist Phantom 2

Please join us for two exciting events to launch our first ever virtual art exhibition in conjunction with Brandeis University's Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, April 25-May 1, 2021. The Zionist Phantom, A Photographic Tale: Artist Workshop with Prof. Dana Arieli Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:00 – 2:00 PM ET Register Pictured: Artist Dana Arieli Guided by […]

Voice and Audience in the Israeli Lullaby

Photo Credit: Artist: Zvika Lachman Voice and Audience in the Israeli Lullaby April 29, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST Register Lilach Lachman teaches at the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Haifa University. Since the 1990s she has been a contributor to Haaretz Book Review. She edited an anthology of lullabies that brings together […]