The History of Israeli Music with Steven Greenberg
On Thursday, April 7, 2022, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies welcomed Steve Greenberg, a record producer, two-time Grammy Award winner, and Founder/CEO of S-Curve Music, who discussed the history of Israeli popular music. In his talk, Greenberg shared excerpts of popular songs throughout Israel’s history and examined how Israel’s music has reflected and […]
The Dialogue Project: A Better Peacebuilding Paradigm
On Thursday, March 31, 2022, Dr. David Lehrer, the Israel Institute Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Elie Wiesel Center, moderated the Arava Institute Alumni Panel titled “Nature Knows No Borders: Israelis and Palestinians Living and Working Together to Protect the Environment” in person at the Elie Wiesel Center, where he was joined virtually on Zoom […]
2022 Holocaust Remembrance Event
Tracing the Roots of Modern Antisemitism: Can Learning about Our Past Explain Our Present? To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies hosted on January 30, 2022, a virtual panel discussion on Zoom with Professor Deeana Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion and History at the Elie Wiesel Center, and Rabbi […]
Power, Hierarchy, and Community in 1950s Istanbul: a Response to Netflix’s “The Club”
On January 26, 2022, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies hosted an online event that discussed the popular new Turkish Netflix show The Club. In a discussion moderated by Dr. Sultan Doughan, a former Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Elie Wiesel Center, Dr. Esra Özdemir, Visiting Lecturer in Language Studies at Brown University, discussed the […]