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Abergel illuminates Israeli Black Panthers’ struggle

3/14/2022 by : Ayla Cline , Cornell Chronicle

The Israeli Black Panthers, founded in 1971, was one of the first movements in Israel fighting for social justice for Jews from Arab and Muslim countries (also known as Mizrahi Jews). On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers, Reuven Abergel, will give a talk entitled "Darkness in the Holy Land: The Israeli Black Panthers’ Struggle for Human Rights and…

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

4/30/2021 by : Ayla Cline , Cornell Chronicle

The Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JPFO) flourished for two decades before being shut down during the Cold War. Its archives are now housed at Cornell’s Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, and videos from a December 2020 conference focused on the archives are now available online. The unusual nature of the bi-lingual archive, mainly confiscated by New York Department of Insurance in 1953, makes…

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Yiddish to fulfill A&S language requirement

4/26/2021 by : Ayla Cline , 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. Currently, Yiddish classes meet one evening a week. Starting with the Fall 2021 semester, Elementary Yiddish will be offered for four credit hours and held four days per week. As of Fall 2022, with the addition of a redesigned Intermediate…

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Talk to reflect on Afro-Asian Jewry in Israel

4/20/2021 by : Ayla Cline , 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 Thursday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. EDT. Registration is required. In his talk, “Israel in Black & White: The Centrality of Black Thought for Afro-Asian Jewry in Israel" Roby will reflect…

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Alumnus Josef Konvitz to give talk on trends in tolerance

2/16/2021 by : Ayla Cline , 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. Registration is required. Konvitz, a former professor at Michigan State University and diplomat with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, will focus on questions of interfaith…

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Jewish Studies Program presents reading of 'Enough to Go'

12/4/2019 by : Ayla Cline , 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. The reading will be directed by Cornell alumnus…

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Sonic treasures from Ottoman Jewish Los Angeles

10/22/2019 by : Ayla Cline , 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.In “LA Archivera,” Book of J members, Jewlia Eisenberg and Jeremiah Lockwood, arrange and compose new…

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Theater scholar examines critical reception of religion on Broadway

10/3/2018 by : Ayla Cline , 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. Henry Bial, a scholar in American and Jewish performance studies, will analyze how this has shaped the way American…