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DATE: March 1, 2016 TIME: 5:30 pm LOCATION: Dedman Life Sciences Building 110 Siona Benjamin, a painter originally from Bombay now living in the U.S., will discuss her work and how it reflects her background of being raised as a Jew in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. Her paintings combine the imagery of her […]
For Immediate Release January 20, 2016 Contact: Shira Lander, 214-768-2157, jewishstudies@smu.edu Dallas, TX– Southern Methodist University will celebrate Judeo-Spanish culture with a series of festive events and lectures the week of January 24-31. Highlights include a screening of Flory’s Flame, a documentary about the life and music of renowned 90-year old Sephardic composer and performer Flory […]
SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: December 8, 2015 Students may now declare a minor in Jewish Studies as of the Fall Semester 2015. Senior finance major Trish Weisberg came into SMU as a religious minor and declared a Jewish Studies minor after she decided to learn more about her own faith. “I’ve really enjoyed it. […]
Event Date: November 10, 2015 Event time: Noon-1:30p.m. Israeli artist Yehuda Levy-Aldema’s presentation visually explores biblical texts beyond the traditional written word. A native of Jerusalem, Levy-Aldema has been working in a variety of media since 1982, when he graduated from Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts. His most recent work in the Ukraine, at […]
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Event date: Monday, April 27, 2015 Event time:12-1 pm Location: Hyer Hall, Room 100 The treatment of Jews under the Christian Roman empire is often represented as yet another chapter in a dismaying narrative of pervasive and continuous anti-Judaism. This lecture will set the experiences of Jews in the 4th and 5th centuries within the broader […]
Dan Arbell, a scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies at American University, is a 25 year veteran of the Israeli Foreign Service, serving in senior posts overseas in the UN, the US and Japan, and holding senior positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters in Jerusalem. Most recently he was Deputy Chief of […]
Event date: 12/12/14 Event time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Event location: Hyer 308A Event description: This cluster will explore how Jews used a range of media, namely visual culture and written publications, to represent themselves and their socio-political objectives to a non-Jewish public in order to garner sympathy from and create alliances with members of […]