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Gender In Modern Hebrew

With examples from social networks and from the Tel Aviv linguistic landscape, we'll talk about how Hebrew speakers look for new ways to make their language more inclusive. We'll check…

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Text and the City: A Hebrew lesson through the Walls of Tel Aviv

A virtual walk through Tel Aviv, where we’ll decipher modern Hebrew texts. From textual graffiti, lost pet ads and stickers to manhole covers, we'll celebrate the different cultural and…

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Sites and Sounds: Auditory Components into the Memorialization of the Plazsow WWII Forced Labor/Concentration Camp

Karolina Ozog works on Jewish historical sites at the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków. Recently, she has been working with her colleagues to memorialize Concentration Camp Plaszow,…

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Bringing Ethiopian-Israelis to the Screen: A Tale of Love and Passion

Israel Studies Project presents - Elad Wexler in conversation with professor Rachel S. Harris. Bringing Ethiopian-Israelis to the screen: A Tale of Love and Passion. Israeli film-maker Elad Wexler…

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Candice Jenkins, Professor of English and African American Studies, UIUC. Keynote lecture: "Toward a Theory of Speculative Pressimism."

Candice Jenkins, Professor of English and African American Studies, UIUC. Keynote lecture: "Toward a Theory of Speculative Pressimism."

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HGMS workshop: How Race Travels: Viewing Israel through a Colored Lens with Bryan Roby

Byan Roby is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His expertise is on Middle Eastern and North African Jewish history in the modern era. His…

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On a Personal Note: A Conversation with Violinists Joe Deninzon and Yulia Ziskel

Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Krouse Family Visiting Scholars event: On a Personal Note: A Conversation with Violinists Joe Deninzon and Yulia Ziskel A conversation about their…

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Nancy K. Miller: Krouse Lecture 2014/15

Nancy K. Miller, author of Breathless: An American Girl in Paris and What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past, delivers the 2014/15 Krouse lecture.

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