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Department of Jewish Studies Welcome Event (2024-2025 Academic Year)

  • Date: September 4, 2024
  • Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
  • Location: Arts 160

An opportunity to learn about the Department of Jewish Studies, to launch a year of teaching, events, and research, and to gather and reconnect. Food and drink will be served. RSVP required.

Jewish Identity in Contemporary Morocco: Memory, Reconciliation, and Citizenship (Aomar Boum, Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, UCLA)

  • Date: September 10, 2024
  • Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
  • Location: Leacock 232

On July 13, 2022, King Mohammed VI approved the establishment of three new national representative bodies of the Jewish community which include, in addition to the traditional National Council of the Community and its regional committees, a National Commission of Moroccan Jews Living Abroad as well as a Foundation of Moroccan Judaism. Although the recent political, social and economic context of 鈥淢oroccan-Israeli normalization鈥� may look as the leading impetus for these royal and statal decisions, I argue that these much-needed measures were decades in the making and are part of the Moroccan state鈥檚 engagement with the 鈥淛ewish Question鈥� during the reign of Mohammed VI. While this official program started during the reign of King Hassan II, its rhythm accelerated and took different forms, particularly in media, civil society, and non-academic circles, after the enthronement of King Mohammed VI in 1999. I revisit the issue of 鈥渞econciliation鈥� of Moroccan society with its Jewish memory through an analysis of its expression through history, literature, media, and intergenerational memory especially in the last two decades. I underline reconciliation here because the history of human rights abuses and the state鈥檚 record during the Years of Lead (1956-1999) left their imprint on all Moroccans, independently of their religion. The monarchy has indeed, since the time of Mohammed V, maintained strong relations with its Jewish subjects in the Jewish communities across the country, Morocco, as a nation, continues its own search for a way to 鈥渞ecognize and accept鈥� its Jews while being sentient to the question of Palestine.

With support from the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (ODPSLL), the Equity Team, and the Dean of Arts Development Fund.

鈥淛ews and Other Poles鈥�: A Tribute to Gershon Hundert (z鈥漧)

his two-day symposium celebrates the remarkable legacy of our dear colleague and friend, Gershon Hundert (1946-2023). Over the course of his 48 years at 成人VR视频, Gershon left an indelible impact on faculty and students. Not only was his scholarship influential but his warmth and generosity as a mentor, colleague, and teacher were legion. Beyond Montreal, scholars across the world recognize Gershon as one of the most significant Jewish historians of his generation. His pioneering research on the Jews of Eastern Europe reshaped our understanding of Jewish history and continues to inspire new generations.

鈥淛ews and Other Poles鈥� brings together some of the most creative and innovative minds in Polish and Eastern European Jewish history to reflect on the state of the field and its future鈥撯�揳 fitting tribute to Gershon鈥檚 enduring influence.

The symposium begins on Sunday, September 22 with a keynote address by Olga Litvak (Cornell University) entitled 鈥淩emapping Jewish Modernity: The Legacy of Gershon Hundert.鈥� Litvak鈥檚 talk will set the tone for what promises to be a series of thought provoking discussions.

On Monday, September 23, the tribute continues with a full day of panels by scholars who have drawn inspiration from Gershon鈥檚 extraordinary contributions. Joining us are Israel Bartal, Jeremy Brown, Maria Cie艣la, Natalie Cornett, Ofer Dynes, Esther Frank, Uriel Gellman, Ula Madej-Krupitski, Moshe Rosman, Nancy Sinkoff, and Adam Teller.

Together, we will honour Gershon鈥檚 memory and continue the important conversation he started half a century earlier.

  • Day 1:听September 22, 2024, 7:00-9:00 pm
  • Location:听Congregation Dorshei Emet [18 Cleve Rd, Hampstead, Quebec H3X 1A6]

Day 1 Keynote: Olga Litvak (Cornell University), 鈥淩emapping Jewish Modernity: The Legacy of Gershon Hundert鈥�

  • Day 2: September 23, 2024
  • Location:听Faculty Club, Billiard Room, 成人VR视频

Day 2 Program:

Program:

  • 9:00 鈥� 10:30 - Session 1:听Borders, Borderlands, and Boundary Crossing in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth
    • Chair: John Zucchi
    • Adam Teller,听Beeswax and Books: Connections Between Polish-Lithuanian and Ottoman Jews at the End of the Sixteenth Century
    • Mania Cie艣la,听Microhistories of Coexistence: Jews and non-Jews in an Urban Context in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
    • Moshe Rosman, Two听Models of Female Piety: Beyla Falk (Sixteenth Century) vs Leah Horowitz (Eighteenth Century)听(delivered remotely)
  • 10:30 鈥� 11:00 - Coffee Break
  • 11:00 鈥� 12:00 - Session 2:听Crowns, Courts, and Thrones: Rethinking Jewish Paths to Modernity
    • Chair: Heidi Wendt
    • Uriel Gellman,听Tradition in Transition: Social Engagement in Early Hasidism
    • Ofer Dynes,听The Legend of Saul Wahl: A Reconsideration
  • 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (on site, per invitation only)
  • 1:00 - 2:30 - Session 3:听Poetry as Memory, Memoires as History
    • Chair: Olga Litvak
    • Jeremy Brown,听Revivals of Ancient Piety from Medieval Spain to Modern Poland-Lithuania
    • Esther Frank,听The Literary Relation between Memory and History in Rokhl Korn's Village Poetry
    • Israel Bartal,听Glikl, Birkenthal, and Spivakoff: Three Centuries of Ashkenazi Memoires (1691-1964) (delivered remotely)
  • 2:30 鈥� 3:00 Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:30听Session 4: 鈥淛ews and Other Poles鈥�听in the Modern Period
    • Chair:听Christopher Silver
    • Nancy Sinkoff, Reporting on the Spanish Civil War through Polish Jewish Eyes: S. L. Shneiderman's听Krig in Shpanyen: Hinterland
    • Natalie Cornett,听Exploring the Impact of Women鈥檚 Education on Polish-Jewish Relations in Nineteenth-Century Poland
    • Ula Madej-Krupitski,听Zakopane as a Jewish Space? A Reevaluation of the 1920s and 1930s.
  • 4:45 Closing Remarks
  • 6:00 Dinner, (off site)

Centuries Surround Me With Fire: On a Late Celan Translation of Mandelstam with Stephen Ross (Concordia University)

  • Date: October 30, 2024
  • Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
  • Location: Leacock 738

On May 10, 1967, Paul Celan (1920-70) wrote a ten-line poem, "Nah, im Aortenbogen" (near, in the aortic arch) on the inside cover of a human anatomy textbook he had recently acquired while hospitalized at Sainte-Anne psychiatric clinic in Paris. Though the poem has apparently been picked clean by critics, I will argue that its key operation--a translation of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) that is far more than a translation--has gone unnoticed. Beginning with a very close reading of the poem itself, the talk will drive toward a theory of poetic translation that brings together Celan's readings in Kabbalah, human anatomy, and psychoanalysis.

Stephen Ross is associate professor of English at Concordia University and editor of听Modernism/modernity. He is the author听Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature听(OUP) and coeditor of听Global Modernists on Modernism听(Bloomsbury).

Coffee, tea, and pastries will be served.

鈥淭he 鈥榃omanly鈥� Bible: Sentimentality and the Tsenerene at the Origins of Modern Yiddish Culture鈥� with Miriam Borden (University of Toronto)

Part of Jewish Studies Seminar

  • Date:听November 13, 2024
  • Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
  • Location: Leacock 738

The听Tsenerene, the enormously popular seventeenth-century Yiddish adaptation of the Hebrew Bible, has long been known as the 鈥渨omen鈥檚 Bible.鈥� This doesn鈥檛 just refer to the people who read it, however. Early twentieth-century Yiddish intellectuals trying to excavate their own literary lineage, and thus to affirm modern Yiddish writing as truly modern, looked to the听Tsenerene听as their literary foremother. They described it not only as a woman鈥檚 Bible, but as a 鈥渨omanly鈥� (vaybershe) Bible. They described the text as 鈥渇eminine,鈥� saying its author assuredly also possessed a 鈥渇eminine character.鈥� This conjured a mythical audience of women, but鈥擨 will argue鈥攁lso gestured toward a key feature of the work that has been neglected: the literary intimacy of the text. Exploring some of the听Tsenerene鈥檚 intimate aesthetics, real and imagined, I suggest that the key to understanding how critics defined Yiddish literature is located in what they defined it听against: the 鈥渨omanly,鈥� emotional investment the听Tsenerene听cultivates in its reader.

Miriam Borden is a PhD candidate in Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto working on the way folklore in Yiddish and the folklore we create听about听Yiddish shapes the way we鈥檝e understood Ashkenazi Jewish life before the Holocaust and since. Her most recent publication is 鈥淛oshua, King David, and the Flying Nun: Doodles and Reader Annotations in Post-Holocaust Yiddish Primers for Children鈥� (Canadian Jewish Studies听/听脡tudes Juives Canadiennes听38, 85鈥�112).

Coffee, tea, and pastries will be served.

The Post-Shoah Movement of Moroccan Jews Through French Colonial and Metropolitan Territories (1948-1967) with 脡milien Tortel (UQAM)

Part of Jewish Studies Seminar

  • Date: November 20, 2024
  • Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
  • Location: Leacock 738

Using French archives and private testimonies, this presentation explores how the French colonial administration in Morocco managed the departure of Jewish subjects and citizens between 1948 and 1967. It also treats the migration paths of Moroccan Jews with a focus on the camp system erected in colonial and metropolitan territories. Finally, it discusses French and Israeli migration policies toward Moroccan Jewish children.

脡milien Tortel is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM), Canada. His articles have appeared in听Histoire, 茅conomie & soci茅t茅听and听贰蝉产辞莽辞蝉.

Coffee, tea, and pastries will be served.

Virtual Book Launch with Prof. Judith Szapor (成人VR视频)

  • Date: January 22, 2025
  • Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
  • Zoom link:听

The Hungarian Studies Association of Canada and the Central and Eastern European Studies Research Group at the University of Ottawa invite you to a virtual book launch with Prof. Judith Szapor (成人VR视频),听who will present her recent book听Quotas: The 'Jewish Question' and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945听(Berghahn Books, 2024, co-edited with Michael L. Miller).

The event will be moderated by Prof. Urszula Madej-Krupitski, 成人VR视频.

2025 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorative Lecture

  • Date: January 27, 2025
  • Time: 5:00-6:15 pm
  • Location:听Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish Street

成人VR视频's Office of the Deputy Provost Student Life and Learning, with the Department of Jewish Studies invite the 成人VR视频 community to a special Commemorative Lecture on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This event seeks to honour the memory of Holocaust victims, raise awareness about antisemitism, and foster education and scholarship to combat hatred and promote understanding.

The lecture, entitled听鈥淭he Counterfeit Countess鈥�: The True Story of a Polish Jewish Woman Who Fooled the Nazis, will be delivered by Prof. Joanna Sliwa, an historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and expert on the Holocaust in Poland and compensation for Holocaust survivors.

For full details, please see听2025 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorative Lecture | Channels - 成人VR视频

On the Other Side of the Poem: The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry (hybrid)

  • Date: February 19, 2025
  • Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
  • Location: Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th floor, Colgate Room,听McLennan Library Building (or online)

The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry, housed in Rare Books and Special Collections, is a unique example of a man鈥檚 devotion to the literary production and heritage of a community that held profound personal meaning for him. The collection consists of some 2,300 Yiddish works, mostly poetry, and includes many rare volumes. Many of the works have beautiful hand-made jackets created by Joe Fishstein, the Bronx garment worker who collected them. This extraordinary collection shows us how a man ornamented his life through his poetry books. In this workshop, guest speaker Claire Sigal will take a page out of Joe Fishstein鈥檚 book, metaphorically, and explore personalizing and monogramming our own bookmarks with a hands-on activity.

This is a hybrid event. Please indicate whether you will attend online or in-person. In-person attendees are asked to please bring a pencil.

Open to all, please听.

About the Speaker:
Claire Sigal听holds a BFA in Art History from Concordia University and a MISt in Library Sciences from 成人VR视频, both in Montreal. Her lectures focus on the intersection of textiles and literature and multi-alphabetical cataloguing. She is a historical Judaica embroidery recreator and folk dancer.

The Economy of an Interwar Yeshivah - Dr. Wojciech Tworek

Political Theologies of Covenant: Reading Hobbes and Spinoza with and against Heschel - Sarah B.K. Greenberg, PhD (Harvard)

  • Date: March 18, 2025
  • Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
  • Location: Leacock 738

The covenanting episodes at Sinai in Hebrew Bible have served as a model for political life, particularly in its translation to social contract, as we see in Thomas Hobbes鈥檚听Leviathan听and Baruch Spinoza鈥檚听Theological-Political Treatise. Returning to covenant in context of the Jewish textual canon shows covenant as a model not of command-obedience authority, but of an alternative conception in which authority circulates and avoids a final arbiter. As such, we can reevaluate not just classical readings of Hobbes and Spinoza but also, think critically about covenant鈥檚 inscription into certain notions of political theology, especially as it emerged in Weimar Germany. Comparing the early-modern engagements with covenant with a reading of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a theorist of covenant in听God in Search of Man, we can see how covenant is a way to think across engagements with and critiques of political theology, and question whether it is possible to have a听Jewish听political theology.

Sarah B.K. Greenberg is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on religion and politics, social and political thought, and methods for historical and theoretical research. She earned her Ph.D. in Government (Political Thought) from Cornell in 2024. Prior to graduate school, Sarah worked as a policy advocate in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in church-state law.

Between Silence and Speech: Dzigan and Shumacher in Post-War Poland - Diego Rotman, PhD (Hebrew University/University of Toronto)

  • Date: March 24, 2025
  • Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
  • Location: Leacock 738

The presentation offers an introduction to the work of Shimen Dzigan and Yisroel Shumacher, two of the most popular and distinguished comedians of Yiddish theater. Renowned for their sharp wit and social satire, Dzigan and Shumacher played a significant role in shaping Yiddish theatrical tradition and humor. This discussion will focus particularly on their performances in post-war Poland, examining how their work engaged with themes of survival, displacement, and the reconstruction of Jewish cultural life in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Diego Rotman is a researcher, multidisciplinary artist, and curator. His research focuses on performative practices in relation to local historiography, folklore, and Yiddish theatre. He is the author of听The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher鈥檚 Satirical Theater (1927-1980)听(De Gruyter, 2021), which won the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israeli Studies (2019) in its Hebrew version. Diego served as Head of the Department of Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 2019 to 2024 and is currently a visiting professor at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto (2024-2025).

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