We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for what sounds like a fascinating symposium: Yiddish in Public Space: The Art of Language. April 21, 2025 at Bar Ilan University Deadline for submissions: February 10, 2025 With the advent … continue reading →
It’s Thanksgiving today in the USA — we thought we would reprise our post from November 26, 2015 celebrating “Turkey Day”… ✡︎ ✡︎ ✡︎ Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! Thanksgiving is often called “turkey-day” because of the tradition … continue reading →
A day-long series of events this past Sunday (November 10) celebrated the 200th birthday of the elegant synagogue in Sabbioneta, near Mantova in northern Italy — a town built in the 16th century by Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga and laid out … continue reading →
We are happy to present the results of the ShUM Cities artist in residency carried out this past summer by the Hungarian visual artist Bence Illyes. The ShUM Cities project linking the important medieval Jewish heritage of the German cities … continue reading →
We are delighted to share the videos of the conference “Expanding Boundaries: Jewish Artistic Heritage of Ukraine,” organized by the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies, which was held this past July. It was a hybrid conference, with some participants in … continue reading →
