Erin Miller Featured in CAS Magazine
Erin Miller (CAS ’17, SPH ’18), was featured in the College of Arts and Science’s Magazine Spring 2016 for her dedicated research assistance with Dr. Grodin’s project.
Sayed Kashua comes to EWCJS
Best known for Arab Labor, his wildly popular Israeli TV sit-com, Israeli-Palestinian novelist and Haaretz columnist Sayed Kashua was greeted by a standing-room-only audience at the Elie Wiesel Center on February 18. The New Yorker has described him as “the most visible representative of Palestinian life in Israel.” In conversation, he shared some of the […]
How Germany Produced Modern Judaism–Lessons for today
Join us on March 15, from 5:30pm, for the third annual Leo Trepp Lecture and the induction of the Trepp Torah scroll into our library. Featured speaker: Rabbi David Ellenson, President emeritus of Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati) and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.
Maccabees Project directors speak with Chuck Morse
Professors Andrea Berlin and Yonder Gillihan discuss the BU Maccabees Project on “Chuck Morse Speaks.” Follow the link to watch the interview.
Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Kabbalah, and Other New Courses
We are pleased to announce a new course on the Kabbalah, offered this spring semester by Dr. Yair Lior. The course closes a major gap in our curriculum and rounds out other courses we teach on early Jewish and comparative mysticism. Follow the link to read more course news.
Quill of the Soul: A Musical Tribute to Elie Wiesel
On Sunday November 1, the Center hosted Quill of the Soul: A Musical Tribute to Elie Wiesel at the Tsai Performance Center at 7pm. The multicultural performance was also the closing event of the year-long artist’s residency of Russian-Israeli composer Matti Kovler at Boston University, hosted by the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.
Rabin Assassination Commemorated at BU
Nearly three-hundred students, faculty and community members turned out to help us mark the twentieth anniversary of the Israeli Prime Minister’s assassination, as we assembled a special group of people to commemorate this historic event and consider the changes for peace in the Middle East today.
Singer’s Demons
Alexandra Herzog on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s literary use of ‘demons’ to portray the ‘carnivalesque’ journey of losing control over one’s life. (BUJS Forum)
Book Reviews
Check out these great reviews of Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary and Moral Perspectives, Edited by Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen
Kirkus Reviews (10/1/13)
Jewish Book World Winter (2013/14)
The Gentile as “Other”
Professor Adi Ophir (Brown and Tel Aviv University) discussed the history of the gentile or “goy,” as the Jew’s “other,” in the epistles of Paul, in rabbinic literature, and today.