• Jennifer Caplan, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender”

    Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom
    Hybrid Event

    Faye Greenberg Sigman "Woman of Valor" Lecture  Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom (Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE) This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in the late 20th and 21st centuries and …

  • Ofer Ashkenazi, “Navigating Profound Uncertainty: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”

    Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom
    Hybrid Event

    This talk presents the key arguments of Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (Ashkenazi, Grossmann, Miron and Wobick-Segev) and outlines potential directions for future research. The rise of National Socialism coincided with the unprecedented popularization of private photography, leading German Jews …

    Free
  • 2024 Stahl Center Distinguished Lecture

    Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

    James Loeffler, “The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law” Register for Zoom meeting. Can law stem hate speech without violating the First Amendment? In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois filed a class …

  • The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians

    Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

    Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture “The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians” Lecture by Grace Kessler Overbeke Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:00 p.m. CST Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center and via Zoom …