The 2017 Leo Trepp Lecture: Reimagining Rabbis
This was the first EWCJS event to be streamed live on Facebook. You can watch the livestream of Rabbi Anisfeld’s keynote speech here and the full panel here. On October 26, 2017, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies hosted the fourth Leo Trepp Lecture at Boston University. The Leo Trepp Lecture Series honors Rabbi Leo Trepp (1913-2010), […]
“The Land Beyond the Mountains” Film Screening with Nir Baram
The Elie Wiesel Center screened journalist Nir Baram’s documentary The Land Beyond the Mountains, based on his book A Land Without Borders, to a packed audience of students and faculty in CAS 226 on Monday, October 30. The film follows Baram as he travels throughout the West Bank, meeting people with a variety of opinions about how […]
Modern Mediterranean Identities: Jewish Futures in the Mediterranean World
At 3pm on Monday October 2, a group of students, faculty, and scholars from a variety of disciplines met in the library of the Elie Wiesel Center for the first forum in the 2017-2018 iteration of the Modern Mediterranean Identities series. After some socializing over refreshments, EWCJS Director Michael Zank welcomed the audience in attendance […]
Love and Borders: A Lecture by Israeli Writer Dorit Rabinyan
On October 19th and 20th, Israeli writer Dorit Rabinyan visited Boston University for a two-day residency, where she visited several Jewish Studies classes during the day and gave a public lecture in the evening at the Elie Wiesel Center. At 7pm on the 19th, Ms. Rabinyan spoke about her third novel All the Rivers, which was […]
End of the Year Celebration and Performance by EL ECO with Guillermo Nojechowicz
At 7pm in the EWCJS Boardroom, Room 201, students, friends and family gathered to celebrate the end of the semester and to honor the achievements of students in Jewish Studies and in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Professor Zank opened the event with a musical performance accompanied by EWCJS employees and graduating seniors Blake Dickler (QSB […]
“In Her Own Time” Screening with Executive Producer Jonathan Bernstein
Our final film screening of the year brought Executive Producer Jonathan Bernstein to BU to discuss both The Chosen and In Her Own Time. In Her Own Time was screened in CAS 326 the following Tuesday, making this a two part film series exploring Orthodox Jewish life in both fiction and in documentary film. In […]
“The Chosen” Screening
Hosted in CGS 527, English Professor Susan Bernstein screened the film The Chosen adapted from Chaim Potom’s award-winning novel about two Jewish boys forming an unlikely friendship as they come of age in 1940s Brooklyn. Directed by Jeremy Kagan, the film follows the conflicts and friendship between Reuven, the son of a liberal Jewish professor, […]
“Moon of Israel” Screening with Accompaniment by Gerhard Gruber
Long before directing Casablanca, Austrian director Michael Curtis (known as Mihaly Kertesz prior to working under an Anglicized name), directed a silent Biblical epic directly in competition with Cecil B DeMille’s original The Ten Commandments. His film, Moon of Israel, premiered in 1923 and tells a story of forbidden love between an Israeli slave and […]
The Coming Age of Nationality: Jews and National Belonging in the 19th Century Mediterranean
Professor of Religion at USC Jessica Marglin presented her research on the “informal imperialism” of the 19th century at Spring 2018’s only Modern Mediterranean Identities series event. In her research, Marglin specifically focuses on how Europeans living in the Islamic Mediterranean (North Africa and the Middle East regions) shaped the political climate of the area. […]
The US Role in the Middle East: Past and Future
The Elie Wiesel Center invited former Senate majority leader and foreign policy advisor George J. Mitchell to BU Law Auditorium on March 14 to be the featured speaker of the 2018 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture, an ongoing lecture series supported by Mr. Jonathan Krivine (CAS ’72). The lecture began with an opening reception at the […]