Spring 2012 Events
Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project
Roots and Restlessness
Jewish Lives at Home and Abroad
Coming Up
May 22, 2012
Robin Judd, associate professor of history at Ohio State University: “Love at the Zero Hour: Jewish War Brides in WWII” (Faye Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture). May 22, 7 p.m., Golda Meir Library Conference Center, UWM.
In connection with the Faye Sigman "Women of Valor" Lecture, the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the JCC and the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies will host a free film class on Bride Flight, a romantic drama about three young war brides from different backgrounds who meet on a flight as they emigrate from Holland to New Zealand after World War 2. The class will be taught by Sherry Blumberg at 7 p.m. May 14 at The Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center.
Recent Events
February 1, 2012
Prof. Rachel Baum, UWM: “A Second Life for the Jews of Europe: Shoah & Virtual Memory,” February 1, 2012, 7 p.m., Sister Camille Kliebhan Conference Center, Cardinal Stritch University, Fox Point.
March 5, 2012
Lev Raphael, author of My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped. March 5, 7 p.m., Congregation Sinai, Fox Point.
May 6 and 8, 2012
Joel Berkowitz, director of the Stahl Center, staged play reading of Kadya Molodowsky’s After the Desert God. May 6, 3 p.m.: Lecture Hall, Music Building, UWM and May 8, 7 p.m.: Ritz Theatre, Milwaukee Jewish Community Center.
May 14
Dr. Steven Harvey of Bar Ilan University, Israel, is an authority on medieval Jewish and Islamic thought. He will speak about the influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on Jewish thinkers at noon on May 14 at the Stahl Center in the Greene Museum.
Co-sponsored events
2012 Middle Eastern and North African Film Series
The UWM Middle Eastern and North African Studies Certificate Program, Arabic Language Program, and the Center for International Education will present five films this semester. For more information, visit the film series' website.
Fall 2011 Events
October 24, 2011
Henry Sapoznik, director of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Jewish Roots and Restlessness in American Yiddish Music and Radio.” October 24, 2011, 6 p.m., North Shore Cinema, Mequon.
November 9, 2011
Prof. Lisa Silverman, UWM: “The Austrian Dreyfus Affair: Philipp Halsmann on Trial in Interwar Austria.” November 9, 7 p.m., Jewish Museum Milwaukee.
December 7, 2011
Prof. Tim Crain, UWM: “Franklin Roosevelt and the Jews,” December 7, 7 p.m., Greene Hall, UWM.
Prior Events by Academic Year
2011-2012
2010-2011
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
For further information: cjsuwm@uwm.edu, or call: 414.229.6121
News and Events
News
Stahl Center approved for second year
Sam and Helen Stahl Center's application for a second year of funding from the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project has been approved by the Association for Jewish Studies. The second and final year of the grant brings $11,000 for public programming in 2012-2013, to accompany matching funds already secured.
The theme for the series will be "Roots & Restlessness: Jewish Lives in the Arts," and will feature lectures, readings, an art exhibit, and a concert. All of the events in the series will be Year of the Arts events as well, and the support of the Peck School of the Arts has been instrumental to making this application possible.
The project aims to promote sustained Jewish Studies programming in mid-sized and smaller cities and to foster relationships between scholars and the wider communities in which they work. UWM’s Jewish Studies program was one of just four nationwide to be awarded the grant for the coming year.
Second issue: The Golden Peacock
The Sam & Helen Stahl Center of Jewish Studies has published its second newsletter. Read more about our first year in the new building and the events planned for spring in The Golden Peacock.
Baum receives UW Mobile Learning Grant
Congratulations to Prof. Rachel Baum for receiving two grants from the UW System Mobile Learning project, a project designed to measure the impact of mobile devices on student learning. Professor Baum's students in "Jewish & Christian Responses to the Holocaust" will be using mobile applications to create digital stories that reflect on the subject matter of the course.
In her second project, Professor Baum will be adding game elements to the online version of Jewish 101. "Gamification" is a new way of thinking about how to create online experiences that are social, rewarding, and that create incentives for participation -- goals that are particularly essential for online learning and for beginning students.
Message from the director, January 30, 2012
Prior News by Academic Year
Read the first edition of The Golden Peacock.