Outreach Events
Despite being online for a good portion of the past year, the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies put on some amazing programming. In November, we hosted a three-day Holocaust conference in conjunction with the Holocaust Education Foundation, which saw people coming in person or virtually from around the world to give papers and presentations.
We hosted two Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lectures on Judaic Studies. The first was Julia Watts Belser on "The Politics of Risk and Resistance: Thinking Gender, Disability, and State Violence through Ancient Jewish Story." The second was "A Conversation with Art Spiegelman," which arose in response to the banning of Maus by a local Tennessee school.
Last year's Karen and Pace Robinson Lecture was a series on Zionism, which included Joshua Shanes presenting on "Zionism: Ancient Dream or Modern Revolution," Rachel Harris speaking on "Tel Aviv and Urban Zionism," Jan Rybak discussing "Zionism and World War I," and Yael Zerubavel speaking on her book, Desert in the Promised Land.
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This year's Karen and Pace Robinson Lecture featured Professor Olga Gershenson who spoke on contemporary Israeli horror films. During the end of October, in the days leading up to the presentation, a series of contemporary Israeli horror films were screened including the first feature length horror film, Rabies (2010); The Damned (Mekulalim, 2018); and JeruZalem (2015).