The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program is dedicated to the study of Jewish history, literature, language, politics, and religion. The program provides students with the opportunity to explore more than three millennia of Jewish culture and civilization, from biblical to contemporary times.
The Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Imagining Law after Nuremberg: Lemkin, Jackson, and the Poetry of Justice April 4th 4:30 PMGilman 132 Presented by Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History James Loeffler (History) with response by Dr. Linda Kinstler of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. How did the Holocaust reshape the modern legal imagination? This lecture explores...
Ancient Texts and Modern Techniques: Producing A New Edition of the Temple Scroll (lecture) March 10th6 PMGilman 130G The Temple Scroll was an attempt by the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls to produce a more perfect Torah. Five copies of this text were discovered, including the longest of all the extant Scrolls. In recent...
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute & Stulman Program for Jewish Studies present a talk on Jewish mysticism with Eliot Wolfson, the Marsha and Jay Glazer Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara February 20th5 PMGilman 388