February 4, 2020
Isaac Babel's 1920 Diary: How to Read Diaries as Ego-Documents
Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University
February 19, 2020
Between Prague and Nikolsburg: Jewish Life in the Bohemian Lands
Michael Miller, Central European University and Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences
The CEU Jewish Studies Program, while being obliged to discontinue its Public Lecture Series from March 2020 due to the Covid-19 health crisis, has co-organized several online events.
May 13, 2020 (online)
Jewish Perspectives on the Spread of Chocolate, Coffee, and Tobacco in the Seventeenth Century
Carsten Wilke, Central European University
May 14 and 26, 2020 (online)
Jewish Survival and Revival in Early Modern Times
1. The Jews in the Renaissance: Humanists and Kabbalists (lecture)
2. Historical Thought and the Strategies of Jewish Survival (seminar)
David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania