“HARAM” Screening with Artist Cynthia Madansky
Artist and Guggenheim Memorial Fellow Cynthia Madansky joined us in CAS 326 in order to screen her essay film “ḤARĀM.” A unique addition to the Spring 2018 Film Series, “ḤARĀM” deals with opposing positions on the future of the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount Faithful group plans to rebuild the Third Temple at the Haram […]
“In Search of Israeli Cuisine” Screening
In the first screening of the Spring semester, Hebrew Professor Mira Angrist presented the documentary “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” in the Director’s Office of the Elie Wiesel Center to a full audience, including her class of Hebrew students. Directed by Roger Sherman, and now streaming on Netflix, the film follows chef Michael Solomonov as […]
Anti-Semitism and Zionism: Ideology or Emotions?
The first and only BUJS Forum event of the Spring 2018 semester hosted Harvard Professor Derek Penslar in the EWCJS library, recorded by WBUR and presented to a full audience. Professor Penslar presented his paper on Affect Theory, how emotions impact the social sciences specifically within international relations, and how this new research lens can […]
A Putative Life of Hannah Arendt Symposium Participants
Miriam Shenitzer (artist/educator) Miriam Shenitzer is an artist who uses line and language. She is interested in how we see each other and the past, and has been creating imaginary worlds since she was a child. Shenitzer’s work is in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Fogg Museum, and […]
Judaism Was a Civilization
Judaism Was a Civilization December 4, 2017 Boston University Department of Religion Professor of Religion Jonathan Klawans presented on “Judaism as a civilization.,” taking the cue from Mordecai Kaplan who proposed that Judaism should be studied as “peoplehood,” which looks at Judaism beyond solely a religious or ethnic group. This frame allows for scholars to […]
Community Participation Week #1
In the days leading up to the In Memory of Elie Wiesel: A Day of Learning and Celebration tribute event, we are expanding our analysis of Wiesel’s work and legacy by sharing thoughts by those who knew Wiesel and his work best. Our messages come from faculty and colleagues from Boston University, public servants and […]
Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #10
In 2013, at the age of 82, Elie Wiesel unexpectedly had to undergo emergency open heart surgery. The procedure was successful and afterwards Wiesel explored his experience in a lecture that became this week’s text. It was to be his final book. The slim volume, Open Heart, provides an intimate portrait of Wiesel’s personality and […]
Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #9
Sages and Dreamers collects twenty-five years of lectures delivered by Elie Wiesel at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, connecting the heroes of the past both in scripture and in Jewish tradition with the present. Each figure, according to his 1991 preface, “stands for an epoch and its problems, conflicts, and aspirations which […]
Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #8
Elie Wiesel received Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. His acceptance speech and related lecture, “Hope, Despair and Memory,” which was delivered in Oslo the day after his acceptance speech, are amongst his most well-known public addresses. This week we revisit his famous words by looking at particularly evocative passages so that we can reflect upon […]
Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #7
Elie Wiesel’s A Jew Today originally appeared as Un Juif Aujourd’hui in 1978. The book is a collection of essays, stories, diary entries, portraits, and dialogues written between 1971 and 1978. These short pieces describe an evolving understanding of Jewishness woven out of current events, history, and memory. Wiesel writes about a wide variety of topics, including […]