In partnership with JSSA and Nu Magazine
An opportunity to learn about the Department of Jewish Studies, to launch a year of teaching, events, and research, and to gather and reconnect. Food and drink will be served.
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Thursday, September 4, 2025 17:30to19:00
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Monday, September 8, 2025 14:30to17:00
Que Dieu te prot猫ge (May God Be with You, dir. Cl茅o Cohen, France, 2021)
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025 16:00to18:00
Sami Everett (Im茅ra Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University)
Part of the Jewish Studies Seminar series
This talk presents multiple case studies examining journeys of return among Algerian Jewish populations and their descendants. It likewise explores how these physical and metaphorical voyages illuminate complex relationships with homeland, memory, and identification.
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Monday, September 15, 2025 17:30to19:00
鈥淎mateur Films and Sephardi Joy: A Global Spin鈥�
with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)
Presented by the Department of Jewish Studies
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Monday, October 27, 2025 16:00to18:00
Jessica Roda (Georgetown University)
Part of the Jewish Studies Seminar series
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Have you had a glimpse of the mesmerizing music videos of ultra-Orthodox women celebrities like Bracha Jaffe or Devorah Schwartz, captivating over half a million viewers on YouTube? Or the myriad films and Yiddish plays crafted by Hasidic girls in Montreal and New York? Probably not.
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Monday, November 3, 2025 11:30to13:00
Natalie Nudell (Fashion Institute of Technology)
Part of the Jewish Studies Seminar series
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Monday, November 17, 2025 16:00to18:00
Music is a major site for remembering the Jewish presence in Algeria, and in many ways works against dominant discourses of Muslim-Jewish conflict and Jewish outsider status. But digging deeper uncovers multiple ways to read Muslim-Jewish intimacy around music, some of which edge into rivalry, hierarchy, and difference. This talk weighs these multiple interpretations, drawing on historical archives and contemporary memory in Algeria and in France.
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