In her talk, Rivka Elitzur-Leiman will discuss a collection of late-antiquity Jewish Aramaic amulets at the NYPL, engraved on small metal leaves. She will explore the amulets’ magical and cultural significance and reveal the history of the collection itself and the role Mary Anna Draper played in creating it. The lecture will also be available

Raz Segal, associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, will provide a historical overview of the development of international law with respect to genocide. He will then apply this history to analyze the International Court of Justice's ruling in South Africa v. Israel.

In her talk, Marilyn Miller examines Cuban revolutionary hero José Martí's relationships with Jewish supporters, especially in late-19th-century New York City, and the continuing importance of Martí's legacy to Jews after his death. While previous research has debated whether Martí was motivated by a genuine interest in the Jewish experience or simply saw in Jewish

Join us for a reading and panel discussion featuring: Peter Quinn, Novelist, Author of Banished Children of Eve (Fordham Press, 1994) and Cross Bronx (Fordham Press, 2022) Mary Gordon, Novelist, Author of Final Payments (Random House, 1978) Keri Walsh, Ph.D., Chair of Irish Studies Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Ph.D., Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

In his talk, Shachar Pinsker will examine the role of Yiddish in Israeli culture. He will argue that even with the denial and self-repression of Yiddish, the language continued to have a generative power and exert an influence on Israeli culture, sometimes in covert and unacknowledged ways. Examining Yiddish literature and culture enables us to

Join us for a talk by journalist Eileen Markey. In the darkest days of the New York City fiscal crisis and its aftermath in the 1970s, as faith in cities faltered, Bronx activists argued for the worth of urban neighborhoods and the value of people living in them. In a time of disinvestment, arson, and