In one unflinching shot, "SHTTL" presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. This movie screening is part of Richmond Yiddish Week - a new festival inviting Richmonders of all backgrounds to explore Yiddishkayt (Yiddish culture) through cultural offerings around the city.
Join us for lunch to learn about the enigmatic texts known as Iggeret sippurim (Epistle of Stories) that appeared on a long-lost medieval kabbalistic iconotext called "The Great Parchment" featuring J.H. (Yossi) Chajes.
Join us on Thursday, Feb 19 for the Lyons Lecture in Judaic Studies. We'll hear from Rabbi Shai Held, president and dean at the Hadar Institute. Held has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America.
Join us March 2 for the annual Powell-Edwards Lecture Series for Religion and the Arts featuring a conversation between Marina Magloire, Ph.D., of Emory University and E. Gaynell Sherrod, Ph.D., of VCUarts. The conversation will address how artistic, spiritual and scholarly practices influence one another in the work of the scholar-artists they have studied, and in their own work.
Join us April 9 for the annual Blake Lecture in the History of Christianity featuring Eric Vanden Eykel, Dean of Faculty, and associate professor and program coordinator of religious studies at Ferrum College. His lecture is titled "Constructing the Jewish Other: Judeophobia and Early Christian Readers."
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Annual Lecture Series
The history department is pleased to offer the community four annual lectures supported by the generosity of donors. Visit the links below for more information.
