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SUMMARY:Anne Golomb Hoffman Memorial Lecture: "Psychoanalyzing American Jews"
DESCRIPTION:“Psychoanalyzing American Jews: Max Weinreich\, YIVO\, and the Yiddish Unconscious” \nIt is well known that Max Weinreich\, co-founder of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research\, produced a psychoanalytic study of Polish Jewish youth. \nThis lecture by Naomi Seidman (with response by Seth Aronson\, PsyD) will focus rather on his never-published psychoanalysis of American Jews in their relation to YIVO and Yiddish\, which he spoke of as the “collective unconscious” of the Jewish American psyche. \nNaomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department for the Study of Religion and the director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of five books and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. \nSeth Aronson\, Psy.D. is fellow\, director of admissions\, and training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is program chair for the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings and on the faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/anne-golomb-hoffman-memorial-lecture-psychoanalyzing-american-jews/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Enchanted World by Michael Satlow
DESCRIPTION:An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious World of Late Antiquity\, a talk by Michael Satlow with respondents Shai Secundo and Cristiana Sogno \nIn Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE)\, the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary people\, religion was not found in temples\, synagogues\, and churches\, but in lived experience as they interacted with the supernatural in a world of uncertainty and danger. The lecture offers a new account of religion in Late Antiquity—one centered less on institutions and theological divisions than on lived experience\, shared fears\, and common hopes. \nMichael L. Satlow is professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University. He specializes in the history of Jews and Judaism in antiquity. His most recent books are An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity and How the Bible Became Holy. He is the founder and director of the “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” project\, a digital corpus of ancient inscriptions from the region\, and is now working with a research team in Israel on creating a networked approach to all of rabbinic literature. He has held fellowships from the NEH\, ACLS\, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Fulbright program\, among others. \nShai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College. He received a bachelor’s degree from Ner Israel Rabbinical College\, a master’s from Johns Hopkins University\, and an MA/PhD from Yeshiva University. He is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Talmud in its Sasanian Context (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2014) and The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context (Oxford University Press\, 2020). His work uses philological analysis of the Talmud—the work which sits at the center of the classical Jewish canon—to reveal the rich cultural and religious worlds of late antique Babylonian Jewry and their neighbors in Sasanian Iran\, especially the Zoroastrians. He has also published widely on Jewish studies scholarship and contemporary culture in the Jewish Review of Books\, where he is a contributing editor. \nCristiana Sogno is a professor in the Department of English at Fordham University. Her research and teaching interests center on letter-writing\, biography\, and the reception and adaptation of Greek and Latin texts. She holds a BA from the Università degli Studi di Torino and a PhD from Yale University. Professor Sogno is the author of Q. Aurelius Symmachus: A Political Biography (Ann Arbor\, 2006) and has written extensively about letter-writing and late antique letter collections. She is currently working on a biographical study of Serena\, one of the Theodosian imperial women.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/book-launch-enchanted-world-by-michael-satlow/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Magda Teter":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "Discourse of American Yiddish Holocaust Education"
DESCRIPTION:“In the Teachers’ Lounge With the Unthinkable: The Pedagogical Discourse of American Yiddish Holocaust Education” \nLecture by Miriam Udel (Fordham-NYPL Fellow) \nThis talk will examine the Yudl Mark’s Pedagogisher buleten and related periodicals as sources for understanding how the events of the Holocaust were presented to children in the American Yiddish after-schools during and shortly after the war. \nMiriam Udel is Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture at Emory University\, where she has recently completed a term as Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. She holds an AB in Near Eastern languages and civilizations and a PhD in comparative literature\, both from Harvard University. She was ordained in 2019 as part of the first cohort of the Executive Ordination Track at Yeshivat Maharat\, a program designed to bring qualified mid-career women into the Orthodox Jewish rabbinate. \nUdel is the author of Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (University of Michigan Press)\, winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. She is the editor and translator of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature (NYU Press\, 2020)\, winner of the Judaica Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her 2025 critical study\, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature\, won last year’s National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity. Udel’s translation of Chaver Paver’s 1935 story collection about the adventures of a lovable proletarian mutt became the basis for Theater Emory’s 2021 puppet film Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup; her full translation of the stories will appear in January with the Excelsior Editions imprint at SUNY Press. \nHer ongoing research looks to children’s literature and culture as a powerful force for political and ethical formation and a resource for the intergenerational transmission of culture\, values\, and ideology. She is spending 2026-27 as the NYPL-Fordham Research Fellow in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/lecture-discourse-of-american-yiddish-holocaust-education/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman
DESCRIPTION:For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman\, a talk by Cathryn Prince with response by Amy Levine-Kennedy \nFor the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman tells the story of a self-educated Jewish immigrant who dedicated herself to a legion of causes and lifelong battles against sexism and classism. Newman went from working as a child laborer in New York City sweatshops to advising presidents during the New Deal Era and beyond. Additionally\, the book covers Newman’s 5o-year relationship with a woman\, her struggles with her sexual identity\, and her final years. \nAn adjunct professor of journalism at Fordham\, Cathryn J. Prince is the author of several nonfiction books including Death in the Baltic: The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland. She is also a freelance journalist who contributes to several publications including The Forward\, Hadassah Magazine\, and The Christian Science Monitor. She holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University\, a MA in American studies from Fairfield University\, and a B.A. in international affairs from The Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington University. \nAmy Levine-Kennedy is a writer and curator whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Hyperallergic\, Sports Illustrated\, and Health. She is an adjunct professor of journalism and communication and media studies at Fordham University and Hunter College\, and is a curator in Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies and the Koslowe Gallery in Mamaroneck\, NY. She holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University and a BA in English and art history from Tufts.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/book-talk-for-the-love-of-labor-the-life-of-pauline-newman/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Magda Teter":MAILTO:jewishstudies@fordham.edu
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "No Logos: Exilic Theory of Talmud" by Elad Lapidot
DESCRIPTION:What is Jewish? In contrast to common tendencies\, this talk considers Jewishness not as endangered life\, but as a tradition of thought. In contrast to apologetic attempts to identify in Jewish intellectual history forms of Western disciplines\, such as philosophy or mysticism\, this talk focuses on talmudic literature\, traditionally dismissed by Europe as thoughtless legalism. Talmud is considered as a method of thinking that diverges from the philosophical polis of logos. Engaging thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas\, Daniel Boyarin\, and Sergey Dolgopolski\, Lapidot argues that rabbinic thought operates as a logoclasm: the dispersion of logos through acts of hermeneutics\, nomos\, and polemics. \nElad Lapidot is Professor for Hebraic Studies at the University of Lille\, France\, and the director of the Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora. Among his publications: State of Others. Levinas and Decolonial Israel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press\, 2025)\, Politics of Not Speaking (Albany: SUNY Press\, 2025)\, Jews Out of the Question. A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism (Albany: SUNY Press\, 2020)\, Hebrew translation of Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes (Tel Aviv: Resling Publishing\, 2020)\, Heidegger and Jewish Thought. Difficult Others\, edited with M. Brumlik (London/New York: Rowman &amp Littlefield\, 2018)\, and Etre sans mot dire : La logiqe de ‘Sein und Zeit’ (Bucarest: Zeta Books\, 2010).
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/lecture-no-logos-exilic-theory-of-talmud-by-elad-lapidot/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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