Here are three lectures that I thought would interest this list: THURSDAY: CURATORS CORNER: BUILDING THE WORLD’S GREATEST JUDAICA COLLECTION
Two of the National Library of Israel’s leading authorities on its treasures, Dr. Raquel Ukeles, Head of Collections, and Dr. Yoel Finkelman, Judaica Curator, will explore highlights of the library’s collection and offer a behind the scenes window into the challenges and opportunities in securing the library’s treasures. Dec. 9, 9:30, PST. Free. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nli.org.il/en/visit/events/online-events__;!!KGKeukY!ibQLqPBK6eGnMQmfaoMijSHo2lr4s9BUfCkhUCi2S0E0WTkIvLttQBRvW43D_A7Wn0vUklt_SzLGnjk$ Sunday: HOW JUDEO-ARABIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE SHAPED JUDAISM AS WE KNOW IT What is Judeo-Arabic and why is it so important to understanding Judaism today? What we know today as “the Jewish bookshelf” was strongly shaped by an enormous body of texts written in Judeo-Arabic, approximately between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. Professor Goldstein will introduce the Judeo-Arabic language and what was written in it, laying out the massive linguistic, literary, and cultural changes that the Jewish communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean experienced following the Islamic conquests of the seventh century CE and the spread of Arabic throughout the region. Miriam Goldstein’s research focuses on medieval Judeo-Arabic literature and interreligious relations among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the medieval Arabic-speaking world. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic literature, and is currently finishing a book devoted to the Middle Eastern texts and contexts of the long-lived Jewish parody of the life of Jesus, Toledot Yeshu. Dec. 12, 11:00 am, PST. Free. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlearning.works/event/judeo-arabic-literature/?event_date=2021-12-12__;!!KGKeukY!ibQLqPBK6eGnMQmfaoMijSHo2lr4s9BUfCkhUCi2S0E0WTkIvLttQBRvW43D_A7Wn0vUklt_4VYf-ys$ FAMILY, HISTORY, MEMORY: NOTES ON SOME JEWISH GRAPHIC NOVELS Why dig into the past—communal, familial—particularly when it is likely to yield dark, horrible truths? What’s the connection between visual storytelling, especially in the form of comics, and the piecing together of events from long ago? In this talk, Tahneer Oksman, Associate Professor of Academic Writing, Marymount Manhattan College will discuss four graphic memoirs (or, in other words, non-fiction graphic novels): Rutu Modan’s The Property, Nora Krug’s Belonging, Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch, and Miriam Katin’s Letting It Go. Despite their differing plots and perspectives, these visual works all powerfully evoke some of the most important, related questions about the Holocaust and other 20th and 21st century atrocities. Ultimately, these texts investigate what it means to adequately, and ethically, address the past, including untold, and unseen, histories. Dec. 12, 10:00 am, PST. Free. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nli.org.il/en/visit/events/online-events__;!!KGKeukY!ibQLqPBK6eGnMQmfaoMijSHo2lr4s9BUfCkhUCi2S0E0WTkIvLttQBRvW43D_A7Wn0vUklt_SzLGnjk$
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