Film screening, followed by conversation with the film’s director, David Ofek, and Yitzhak Y. Melamed (JHU) September 6th 11:00AM (EST) SMOKLER CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE 3109 N. Charles St. Baltimore

 Congratulations Giacomo Loi for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled: “Our Quarrel Is Of Old”: Classical Reception In Modern Hebrew Literature. Mazal Tov from all of us! 

The aim of the 16th Lavy Colloquium was to assess the state of research on Christian Kabbalah, fill lacunae in existing scholarship, and chart directions for future inquiry. The Colloquium focused on Christian Kabbalah in the broadly understood Early Modern Period. The colloquium was organized by our Kabbalah scholar, Professor Pawel Maciejko.

The course of study offers training in Hebrew and Yiddish language, literature, and culture in its many transnational iterations and focuses on the modern period while attending to the long history of the literary traditions in these languages. The Hebrew and Yiddish subdivision of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins is […]

Mirit Bessire will be joining the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program this fall to teach Hebrew language on all levels, from beginner to advanced. Ms. Bessire is an experienced teacher of Modern Hebrew language and Israeli culture. During the past decade she taught a variety of Hebrew classes at […]

Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attributed to the divine, and examines their functions against the simplistic dichotomy between religious and secular literature. The volume follows both chronological and thematic paths, offering a panoramic and multilayered analysis of the various strategies in […]