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Jewish Studies

Abergel illuminates Israeli Black Panthers’ struggle

Cornell Chronicle

On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers will give a talk, "Darkness in the Holy Land: The Israeli Black Panthers’ Struggle for Human Rights and Against Racism."

Jewish Studies

In honor of May Day, ‘Di Linke’ conference videos available online

Cornell Chronicle

The archives of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JPFO), which flourished for two decades before the Cold War, are now housed at Cornell’s Kheel Center, Catherwood Library. Videos from a December 2020 conference focused on the archives are now available online.

Near Eastern Studies

Yiddish to fulfill A&S language requirement

A&S Communications

This fall, Cornell's new Yiddish program is setting its sights higher, riding a generational trend in interest and changing attitudes towards the language.

Jewish Studies

Talk to reflect on Afro-Asian Jewry in Israel

Cornell Chronicle

How and why Afro-Asian Jews in Israel became associated and engaged with Global Black thought throughout the 20th century will be explored in a virtual talk by Professor Bryan K. Roby on May 6.

Jewish studies

Alumnus Josef Konvitz to give talk on trends in tolerance

Jewish Studies Program

Historian and Cornell alumnus Josef Konvitz ‘67 will explore and compare trends in tolerance in France and the United States in a digital talk on March 15 at 5:30 p.m. EST.

Jewish studies

Jewish Studies Program presents reading of 'Enough to Go'

Jewish Studies Program

The Jewish Studies Program will present a staged-reading of the new-old play "Enough to Go" by former Ithaca resident Fred Peretz Cohn on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall on the Cornell Campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited, and while tickets are not required, reservations can be made at www.tinyurl.com/enough-to-go.

Jewish Studies Program

Sonic treasures from Ottoman Jewish Los Angeles

A&S Communications

Explore treasures of Sephardic Jewish music culture at Book of J’s performance of “LA Archivera” on Monday, Nov. 11, at 8 pm in Cornell University’s Barnes Hall Auditorium. The free event will feature mid-century Los Angeles and 20th-Century Jewish Ottoman music traditions. The public is invited.

Religious Studies

Theater scholar examines critical reception of religion on Broadway

Cornell Chronicle

Since the era of George Jean Nathan, Cornell Class of 1904, the first-string critics of New York’s major newspapers – overwhelmingly white, male and educated at elite universities – have wielded outsized influence on which plays and musicals succeed in New York and thus the nation.