Month: June 2019

Dalit Katz served as a juror at the Lighthouse International Film Festival

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Dalit Katz, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies,  served as a juror in the documentary category at the Lighthouse International Film Festival at Long Beach Island in New Jersey. The opening night film was the feature film Skin, directed by the Israeli film maker Guy Nativ who won the Oscar for a short by the same title. After the screening Guy Nativ conducted a Q/A session with the audience. The film festival’s executive director this year is Amir Bogen, the Scholar in Residence at the Center for Jewish Studies in spring 2019.

Professor Kleinberg received Distinguished Professorship

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Ethan Kleinberg, Professor of History and Professor of Letters, received the Class of 1958 Distinguished Professorship, established in 2008.

Ethan Kleinberg joined the Department of History and the College of Letters in 2001 after completing his B.A. at University of California, Berkeley, a Fulbright scholarship in France, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include European intellectual history, critical theory, educational structures, and the philosophy of history. Kleinberg has published three books, most recently Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past (Stanford University Press, 2017). In 2018, he was Professeur Invité at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, and in Summer 2020 he will be the Reinhart Koselleck Guest Professor at Bielefeld University’s Zentrum für Theorien in der historischen Forschung.

Prof. Feller’s new course incorporates Radio Discussion in the Diaspora

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The Center for Jewish Studies continues to offer new and innovative courses. Last spring, Yaniv Feller, Assistant Professor of Religion and the Jeremy Zwelling Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, taught a new student-centered course in which students produced radio discussions podcasts  about Religion in the Diaspora. Check out the post below, written by Noa Street-Sachs

Beyond the Classroom: Student-led Radio Discussions on Religion in the Diaspora