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The 2022-24 Embodied Judaism exhibit was featured in the CU Independent.

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:00:36 +0000

The 2022-24 Embodied Judaism exhibit was featured in the CU Independent. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 10:00

The Know Your Nosh exhibit: Exploring the significance of food in Jewish identity

As part of the university’s Embodied Judaism Series, the exhibit explores the role of food and agriculture within Jewish cultural, national and political identities. It also uses food to delve into the connection between the United States, Israel and Palestine.

2022 Embodied Judaism: Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness, and Identity symposium and exhibit organized and curated by Gregg Drinkwater, Hilary Falb Kalisman, and Samira K. Mehta. Exhibit design and digital exhibit coordination by Maggie Rosenau. The 2022 symposium is part of our ongoing Embodied Judaism and Israel-Palestine Studies series and is supported by the David Shneer Fund for Community Programming, Public Scholarship, and the Arts. The 2023-24 exhibit is hosted by the Program in Jewish Studies and the University Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collection.

You can read the article here.

Explore the digital version of the exhibit here.

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Know Your Nosh: Exhibition on Jewish food opens at the University Libraries

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:12:19 +0000

Know Your Nosh: Exhibition on Jewish food opens at the University Libraries Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/19/2024 - 10:12

A new exhibition, "Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness & Identity", is on display in Norlin Library on the third floor outside of the Rare and Distinctive (RaD) Collections classroom (Room N345).

This exhibition is the fifth installment of the Embodied Judaism Series and its development—researching, selecting materials and designing the panels—has occurred over the past year. The series is a long-standing collaboration between RaD and Program in Jewish Studies and focuses on the role of the body in Jewish life, drawing from materials in the Innovations in Jewish Life (IJL) collections housed in RaD.

“We are thrilled to continue our collaboration with Program in Jewish Studies and host this exhibition in Norlin Library,” said Megan Friedel, lead archivist and head of collections management and stewardship for RaD. “We hope this exhibit connects students and other viewers with the unique ways that the IJL collections can be used for research, speak to so many aspects of Jewish identity, and resonate across cultures.”

The exhibition explores the significance of food and agriculture for Jewish religious, cultural, national and political identities, focusing on the United States and Israel/Palestine.

"When I was first asked to search for material related to food and agriculture in the Innovation in Jewish Life (IJL) collections, I didn't expect to find very much. My, was I wrong!” said Gregg Drinkwater, former associate academic director of the IJL collections and curator of the exhibition. “From pamphlets produced by Zionist organizations in the 1940s emphasizing the agricultural aspects of Zionism, to texts emphasizing spiritual connections to food and the land created for Jewish religious festivals, the IJL collections offer significant holdings. I hope this exhibit encourages other scholars to explore the IJL collections and the depth and complexity of the material held here at CU."

The exhibition is on view now in Norlin until May 2024 and also available online. For more information about accessing the IJL collections, please visit the RaD website or contact rad@colorado.edu.

2022 Embodied Judaism: Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness, and Identity symposium and exhibit organized and curated by Gregg Drinkwater, Hilary Falb Kalisman, and Samira k. Mehta. Exhibit design and digital exhibit coordination by Maggie Rosenau. The 2022 symposium is part of our ongoing Embodied Judaism and Israel-Palestine Studies series and is supported by the David Shneer Fund for Community Programming, Public Scholarship, and the Arts. The 2023-24 exhibit is hosted by the Program in Jewish Studies and the University Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collection.

Title image: "Shabbat" by Lynne Feldman.

This article was published by CU January 18, 2024.

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What's New in Jewish Studies, 2022-2023

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:11:11 +0000

What's New in Jewish Studies, 2022-2023 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/22/2022 - 09:11

As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder.

We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the new Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, and Angela Watts, our new Manager of Finance and Business Operations.

Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies’s new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism, Diaspora, and the Gay Jewish Embrace of Israel.” Prof. Drinkwater has also been appointed Associate Academic Director of the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections.

The Nonbinary Hebrew Project, co-created by Eyal Rivlin, is increasingly being integrated into university curricula across the U.S., as well as language-learning technology platforms, including Language Drops. Read about the Gender Inclusive Hebrew Language Conference, co-organized by Prof. Rivlin this past spring.

Maggie Rosenau is the new Project Manager for Jews of Color: Histories and Futures.

Rebecca Wartell has been selected to be part of a cohort of faculty at the CU Art Museum focused on developing new modes of object-based teaching and experiential learning.

Beverly Weber has been appointed Chair of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures.

Be sure to register for our first fall event: Yiddish Paris: Creating a Jewish Nation Between Two World Wars.

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