The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies is happy to announce the upcoming program Imagining Israel Baal Shem Tov: Readings in Hasidic Hagiographic Literature with Crane Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies Jonatan Meir. This masterclass, hosted the week of February 23–27, 2026, will present a close examination of the forthcoming critical edition […]
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Book Launch: Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age
November 17th, 20254:30 PM (EST)Gilman 130G The Stulman Jewish Studies Program and the Department of Near East Studies are hosting a panel discussion of Alice Mandell’s new book on the Canaanite Amarna Letters. Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offers new insights into the multilingualism and rhetorical strategies of Late Bronze Age […]
Upcoming Event: Exploring Rare Judaica at Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University has been home to extraordinary Judaica and Jewish Studies collections for over a century. How did these texts arrive at a secular institution and why do they still matter today? Join the Sheridan Libraries for a special event featuring Assistant Professor Samuel Spinner, Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, and Mack Zalin, […]
Announcing Our Fall Events
Please join the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies this Fall at our various events. Details below. Sept. 8thShabbetai Zvi: The Reluctant MessiahHistory Department SeminarDr. Paweł Maciejko (JHU)3 – 4:30pm Gilman 308 Sept. 17thThe Struggle Over Cultural Genocide in the Eichmann TrialLecture by Dr. Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University)5 – 7pmGilman 479 Oct. 21stMaking and Unmaking […]
Announcing Upcoming Events with Moshe D. Chechik
Between Autonomy and Authority, Between Germania (Ashkenaz) and Tzarfat: The Halachic Thought of Rabbi Meir of RothenburgA Master Class by Moshe D. Chechik (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Smokler Center Third Floor Multipurpose RoomApril 28th-May 2nd, 2025Mon-Wed & Fri: 9:30 AM – 1 PMThurs: 1 PM – 4:30 PM Rabbi Meir b. Barukh of Rothenburg ob der […]
Honors Student Presents Research
Al gesher tzar me’od: The Origins and Evolution of the Independent Minyan Movement Honors Thesis Presentation April 21st4:30 PMGilman 479 Near Eastern Studies (NES) major Zachary Bahar will present his thesis findings with commentary by Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History James Loeffler (History) and William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern […]
Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies
The Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Imagining Law after Nuremberg: Lemkin, Jackson, and the Poetry of Justice will be held on April 23rd and presented by James Loeffler.
Visiting Speaker Andrew Gross, March 10th
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 […]
Visiting Speaker Eliot Wolfson, February 20th
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
Upcoming Lecture from Guest Speaker Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi
Thursday, November 7th 5 PM Gilman 479 Armageddon In Our Time? Professor Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thirty-seven acres of “real estate” in Jerusalem, encompassing the Temple Mount and Al Aqsa, are the epicenter of the intensifying religious war between Jews and Muslims that has evolved from political strife. Based on her […]