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Jewish studies scholar and pug enthusiast. Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies @Princeton University, President Association for Jewish Studies
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Check out this incredible archive informationwanted.org

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This sounds like an incredible book and archive informationwanted.org www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...

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CFP: New Directions in Salvage Poetics Location: University of Chicago Dates: November 3-4, 2025 Proposal Due: April 4, 2025

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New issue! Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 42.3 You can access the issue online at JSTOR using an institutional log-in, or open access through Project MUSE's Subscribe to Open (S20) program: www.jstor.org/journal/shofar muse.jhu.edu/issue/53934

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Call for Papers Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution (deadline: 31 March 2025) Eighth international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, 7-9 January 2026

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The Feinstein Center at Temple University announces its annual summer fellowship to support research in the American Jewish experience. Predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars studying any area of American Jewish life are eligible for the grant of up to $4,000. due by April 1, 2025

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Jewish Museum & IIJS book talk on Jewish Country Houses, featuring a Dr. Juliet Carey and Abigail Green in discussion, moderated by Rebecca Kobrin. This event will take place on Thursday, March 27, at 6:30 PM at the Scheuer Auditorium at the Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street. register!

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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at Yale University invites applications for residential research fellowships for academic year 2025-2026. One-semester (4 months) & 1 month fellowships complete by March 12, 2025.

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A four-week internship on Jewish Studies in Jerusalem for young researchers from Central-Eastern Europe July 27, 2025 - August 23, 2025 Location Israel jcivilization.huji.ac.il

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Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks, authors of "Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel" ( recipient of 2025 National Jewish Book Award, Women’s Studies) 12:30 pm EDT | Online

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New cockroach content haul via Seattle Public Libraries

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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

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The Trump administration has fired 400 FAA workers in the past week. www.axios.com/local/chicag...

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Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

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Very nice chat today with WYPR for their On the Record show, on gender affirming care. If you want to catch me, it'll be broadcast at 9:35 AM tomorrow in Baltimore. Link to come.

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New article by the magnificent Alan Verskin! www.academia.edu/127869211/As...

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Oh man, how stinkin' cute is this? Love the lamb www.ebay.com/itm/35648505...

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EVENT: "An Unorthodox History: British Jews since 1945," a talk by Gavin Schaffer (March 17). Venue: online via Zoom & in person (Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C) Time: 6PM GMT Gavin Schaffer is Professor of Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University

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FEATURED JOB: Post Doctoral Researcher, Jewish Studies, U. Delaware Chaiken Postdoctoral Researcher will teach one course per semester in Jewish history, conduct research in their area of expertise, and organize and lead a scholarly symposium. Area of specialty and methodology are open.

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FEATURED JOB: Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2025/2026, Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The JRI promotes high-quality research in the spirit of its namesake, the Jewish jurist of Lithuanian origin Jacob Robinson, 1889-1977.

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Webinar by Shirli Gilbert: "Finding Jewish Refugees in Africa: Reflections from the JDC Archives" Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12pm-1:15pm (Eastern Time) RSVP us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Iconic Hasidic Food: “Black Kasha” in Chabad-Lubavitch muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... Wojciech Tworek "This essay delves into the historical custom observed by Chabad Hasidim, wherein they partake in buckwheat kasha during the festival of 19 Kislev."

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Of Mice and Hasidic Men: Reb Shayele as Populist Patron Saint muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... by Sam Shuman "focuses on an emergent, transnational Hasidic revival movement centered around the Kerestirer Rebbe, Yeshaya Steiner (Shayele), a Hungarian miracle worker who lived in Hungary from 1851-1925."

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“A New Project of Jewish Colonization in the Sudan': Ashkenazi Refugees and the Ottoman Jewish Liberal Opposition" Ilan Benattar "offers a close study of the life of this idea, the factors that gave it traction, and its significance for the study of late Ottoman Jewish communal politics"

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"The Female Body and the Male Gaze: Magic, Kabbalah, and Medicine in Early Modern East-Central Europe." Andrea Gondos "explores the treatment of the female body with a particular focus on its (re)generative properties by critically examining Jewish handbooks of magic"

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New Article by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger: "Magic Formulae and Women’s History: Authorship, Agency, and Gender in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... "This essay argues that the formulaic nature of the bowls challenges the argument of female authorship"

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WOW! JQR hits it out of the ballpark again--looks like an amazing issue!! Jewish Quarterly Review. Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Volume 115.1 Winter 2025 jqr.pennpress.org

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Review of "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, & the Birth of Religious Freedom" (Oxford University Press, 2024), by the Auburn historian Adam Jortner by Zev Eleff! arcmag.org/revolutionar...

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H/t Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett hyperallergic.com/989166/stitc...

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For too long, the Italian artist Isabella Ducrot looked to others to tell her who she was. “I think life, for women, begins at 60,” she said. “Because then we begin to be free.”

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Re-wilding at Green-Wood Cemetery. #ruralcemetery #wilding #wildlife #natureincity #brooklyn #cemeteryarts

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Historical children’s toys at Staten Island Historical Society #childrenshistory #statenisland #americana #dollhouse #punchandjudy

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The incomparable @lauraleibman.bsky.social will be at CU on Monday the 3rd! Join us, in person or on Zoom!

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Staten Island Historical Society Museum

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Mr Nugget Along the Riverfront in Highland Park NJ

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Looking forward to this podcast and learning more about this book! writingit.fireside.fm/44 “Great conversation with John Warner in our latest episode of Writing It! about AI and academic writing and teaching.”

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Monk or Wild Quaker Parrots 🦜 building their nests and chattering up a storm on the old gothic entrance gates to Green-Wood Cemetery in #Brooklyn. #birds #parrots #gothicrevival #cemeteryarts #ruralcemetery #gardencemetery #greenwoodcemetery

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Egyptian Revival Mausoleums at Green-Wood Cemetery in #Brooklyn . #GreenwoodCemetery #materialculture #cemeteryarts #egyptianrevival #nineteenthcentury #mausoleum

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Cats at Staten Island Historical Society #statenisland #cats #statenislandhistoricalsociety

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Civil war soldiers monument @Green-WoodCemetery in Brooklyn #Greenwoodcemetery #civilwar #materialculture #nineteenthcentury #cemeteryarts

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Stained glass @Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn #cemeteryarts #ruralcemetery #materialculture #nineteenthcentury

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Visiting the splendid Ohel Leah Synagogue in Hong Kong, built in 1901/02 in neo-baroque style and named after Rachel Sassoon (1829-1878), née Gubbay.

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Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...

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