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Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

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Ruth Langer (Boston College), Jewish Prayers for Divine Vengeance. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

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Katrin Kogman-Appel (University of Münster), A Jewish Perspective on World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca 1375). Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center...

Jewish-Muslim Interrelations Lecture Series

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David Freidenreich (Colby College), Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for the Study of World Religions. Please...

Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

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Naama Golan (Kibbutzim College of Education and 2021-22 Associate at the Center for Jewish Studies), A Creative Interpretation within the Genre Constraints: A Study of Yehuda Uziel's Super-Commentary on Rashi. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Jewish...

Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

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Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University), Engaging the Past, Envisioning the Future: Reflections of/on a Spanish Jewish Exile. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

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Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa emeritus), Baron or Graetz: Who Has Carried the Day? On Writing Medieval Jewish History. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. This talk will take place on...

HLS Program on Jewish-Israeli Law lecture

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Moshe Halbertal (Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School), Law and Emotions: Maimonides' Concept of Mourning. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.

Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish History and Culture

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Susan Einbinder (University of Connecticut), Bone, Stone and Text: Commemoration of the Black Death among Iberian Jews. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Sari Nusseibeh (Al-Quds University), Are Possible Facts Real? An Avicennian Vignette. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, the Department of Philosophy, and the Center for Jewish...

Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

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Chana Shacham-Rosby (Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Starr Fellow), Practice, Practicality and Periphery in Medieval Ashkenaz. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates; please RSVP to Sandy Cantave...

Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

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Rabbi Aaron Adler (Ohel Nechama Community Synagogue/Israel and Silver Fellow), Ashkenazic Versions of Prayers and Blessings in Maimonides' Codes. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates; please RSVP to...

Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

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David Shyovitz (Northwestern University), Soul Food and Salvation: Eating Animals in Medieval Ashkenaz. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Jewish Cultures...