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Brian Catlos to speak about Jewish and Muslim relations in 11th-century Islamic Spain

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:21:30 +0000

Brian Catlos to speak about Jewish and Muslim relations in 11th-century Islamic Spain Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/31/2017 - 10:21

One night in 1066, Muslim inhabitants of the city of Granada in Spain rose up and slaughtered their Jewish neighbors in what has been described by some as the first pogrom on European soil.

But peeling back the layers of history reveals a much more complex story, one that will be explored in an upcoming free, public lecture titled “Jewish Pride and Muslim Prejudice in 11th-century Islamic Spain” on Sept. 13 from 7 to 8 p.m. at McDaniel Hall, Rm. 101, 1500 First St. on the Adams State University campus in Alamosa. Complimentary light refreshments will be provided.

Brian A. Catlos, professor of religious studies at the ��, will present the lecture in conjunction with the Adams State University Faculty Lecture Series. For more than ten years, this series has offered free lectures on a variety of subjects and disciplines. His lecture is also part of CU Boulder’s Peak to Peak Lecture Series, which brings CU Boulder humanities scholars to communities around Colorado. The series is a partnership between the CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies and the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement.

Catlos’s research centers on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations and ethno-religious identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic World. This lecture will focus on a significant piece of history in Granada, where a Jewish family rose to dominate this Muslim kingdom, administering its finances, leading its troops into battle and ultimately attempting to seize control of the throne.

“In societies framed by religious hierarchies the rhetoric of religion often became the language of politics,” said Catlos, who is one of the world’s leading figures in the study of Mediterranean history. “Ultimately this story is less about prejudice than politics, about a world in which Muslims and Jews were profoundly and deeply connected, and of a massacre that may not have happened.”

In 2014, Catlos published Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad, which received an honorable mention from the PROSE awards, as well as Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, which won the Albert Hourani Book Prize, the most important book prize in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300, published in 2004, won two prizes from the American Historical Association. His next book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain, will be published in spring 2018. More at www.brianacatlos.com.

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Legalizing 2nd Class Citizenship: Legislation's Role in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and What We can Learn from It in Contemporary America

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:48:34 +0000

Legalizing 2nd Class Citizenship: Legislation's Role in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and What We can Learn from It in Contemporary America Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/20/2017 - 10:48

Professor David Shneer will give a public lecture on Monday, April 24 at the Colorado State Legislature in honor of Holocaust Commemoration Day 2017. In this lecture, Professor Shneer will talk about the Legislation's role in the Holocaust and what contemporary American can learn from it.

Professor David Shneer is the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on 20th century European, Russian, and Jewish history and culture. His newest book, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2011), finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and winner of the 2013 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Prize, looks at the lives and works of two dozen Soviet Jewish World War II military photographers to examine what kinds of photographs they took when they encountered evidence of Nazi genocide on the Eastern Front.

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Announcing the New Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Website

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:58:49 +0000

Announcing the New Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Website Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/12/2017 - 10:58

The Program in Jewish Studies and University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives are pleased to announce the launch of the new Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections website.

The website highlights materials held in the 21 Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections and enables users to explore finding aids, audio/visual materials, photos, and interact with the collections' materials.

The website also has information about the archival process as well as our other Post-Holocaust initiatives, including the biannual Embodied Judaism symposia, fellowships for graduate students and visiting scholars, and ways to support the Collections.

The Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections are archival holdings at the �� focused on Judaism and the Jewish-American experience from roughly the late 1940s to the present. The material collected aims to shed light on the religious, cultural, and social movements of American Judaism as well as on the various philosophies of Judaism and Jewish organizations in the relevant period.

Explore the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

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CU Boulder Peak to Peak Lecture Series heads to Carbondale

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:34:00 +0000

CU Boulder Peak to Peak Lecture Series heads to Carbondale Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/24/2017 - 10:34

The ��’s Peak to Peak Lecture Series and the CU Carbondale Speakers Series present a talk with CU Boulder Professor Samuel Boyd titled "Magic, the Bible, and the Biblical Imagination in Jewish Mysticism”Saturday, April 15, 5:30 to 7 p.m., at the Carbondale Branch Library, 320 Sopris Avenue, Carbondale, CO. RSVPs are appreciated to CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu.

Religion and magic are often categories that are considered to be distinct, if not opposites, from one another. In this lecture, Boyd will show why the study of magic is testimony to the vitality of Jewish traditions as well as valuable for understanding our own preconceptions and biases in the modern era. Boyd will look at some theories regarding the study of magic and religion in light of Jewish texts and traditions. He will begin with the ancient Near Eastern context of the Bible and discuss the ways in which understandings of magic have fluctuated over time in biblical texts as well in as in the Jewish interpretive traditions and imagination.

Boyd is an assistant professor of religious studies and Jewish studies at the �� and a scholar of biblical texts and the ancient Near East. He researches the Bible through various critical methods and in light of wider historical contexts to understand both the production of these documents as well as their history of interpretation. His areas of research include the development of the Pentateuch (or first five books of the Hebrew Bible), legal hermeneutics in the ancient Near East, language ideology in the ancient world, and ritual theory applied to biblical texts.

This event is supported by Carbondale Arts and the Carbondale Branch Library, in partnership with the CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies and the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement. It is part of the CU Boulder Peak to Peak Lecture Series, a program that brings CU Boulder humanities scholars to communities around Colorado to share innovative perspectives of historical figures, events and enduring questions.

Learn more about Professor Boyd’s talk and the CU Boulder Peak to Peak Lecture Series here.

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Eyal Rivlin to lead Hebrew Kirtan

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:13:16 +0000

Eyal Rivlin to lead Hebrew Kirtan Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/10/2015 - 10:13

Eyal Rivlin is be co-leading the monthly Hebrew Kirtan (ecstatic chanting) Shabbat Service for Congregation Nevei Kodesh. This is free and open to the public. The next service will take place Friday, March 20 @ 7PM-9PM at Congregation Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, and will be an ongoing event.

Rivlin also recently led a musical shabbat services as CU's Hillel which was a huge success with great turnout and participation!

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Liora Halperin to give special author talk on Babel in Zion

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:57:39 +0000

Liora Halperin to give special author talk on Babel in Zion Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/06/2015 - 15:57

Join us for a special book talk by Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, on her recent publication, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948, presented as part of the CU at the Boulder JCC: A Scholars Series.

Special Closing Event for CU at the JCC: A Scholars Series

“Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948”

Author talk with Professor Liora Halperin

Sunday, April 26, 7 pm

At the Boulder JCC

Tickets: $12 on line, $15 at the door

Free for CU-Boulder students with a valid student ID

Reservations: boulderjcc.org

Books will be available for purchase

The story of language in Jewish Palestine is a fascinating tale of shifting power relationships, both locally and globally. Liora Halperin’s absorbing new study questions the accepted scholarly narrative of a Zionist move away from multilingualism and explores the promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew - traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study - as a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I.

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