Taubman Symposium Talk: Archives - Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB

25 Mar

Taubman Symposium Talk: Between Catastrophe and Creativity: Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s Nobel Prize and the Jewish Response to Trauma

In December 1966, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli author Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887–1970) received the Nobel Prize in literature—the only author writing in Hebrew to receive that distinguished honor. Rabbi Jeffrey Saks will trace how Agnon’s remarkable acceptance speech vividly expresses the intertwining of personal destiny, Jewish...

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26 Jan

Taubman Symposium Talk: The Central Issues of the Priestly Struggle in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Professor Rachel Elior’s writings have stimulated lively discussions among scholars in her areas of research. These include, among others, early Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Messianism, Hasidism, and the role of women in Jewish culture. In her talk for the Taubman Symposia, presented as...

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18 Dec

Taubman Symposium Talk: James A. Diamond

Within the walls of the well-known Warsaw Ghetto uprising, another kind of resistance was mounted, not by combatants, but rather by a group of poets, artists, and historians known as the Oyneg Shabbes collective. Far less known than the Ghetto, that literary and artistic circle...

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31 Oct

Taubman Symposium Talk: Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University/Jerusalem, Yoram Bilu is a psychological anthropologist who focuses on Israeli society and Jewish traditional culture. His research interests include the anthropology of religion, culture and mental health, the sanctification of space in Israel, and Maghrebi Jewish...

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28 Apr

Taubman Symposium Webinar: It Takes Two to Torah

In genuine Jewish tradition, everywhere there is machlokes, reasoned disputes aimed at spiritual growth. Reform-oriented author and journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox-minded Yeshiva Headmaster Rabbi Dov Linzer are thus in good company with their new book It Takes Two To Torah, in which they “Discuss...

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12 Mar

Taubman Symposium Talk: Memory and Inheritance: Bearing Witness to My Grandmother’s Story

Elana K. Arnold is an award-winning American author known for her diverse and thought-provoking books for children, teens, and young adults. Her work spans a range of genres, from contemporary realism to fantasy, often exploring themes of identity, resilience, and the complexities of growing up....

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