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And God Laughed: Humor in the Bible – Joel Kaminsky
Royce Hall, 306 306 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesSince the Hebrew Bible is a sacred text for Jews and Christians many readers naturally assume it cannot contain any humor. This talk will explore several biblical narratives that employ […]
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Prelude to the Holocaust: The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of Summer 1941 – Jeffrey Kopstein
Royce Hall, 314 314 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThis lecture examines a particularly brutal wave a violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. […]
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After the Catastrophe: Ezra-Nehemiah and the Rebuilding of Community and Identity – Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Royce Hall, 306 306 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThe deaths and deportations that accompanied the destruction of the Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587 BCE mark the turning point in the arc of biblical narrative. The book of […]
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Antisemitism, an American Tradition – Pamela Nadell
Royce Hall, 314 314 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIn Antisemitism, an American Tradition Pamela S. Nadell, the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender history at American University, recounts the powerful story of antisemitism in America and how […]
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