Events

The Jewish Studies Program sponsors guest lectures and other cocurricular activities throughout the year.

The main event is the endowed lectureship, the annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, at which the public is welcome.

To receive advance notice and reminders of these events, please send a request to be included in the email list to Vijaya Wunnava, Program Coordinator at vwunnava@middlebury.edu or call (802) 443-5009.

Upcoming Events

Past Events

  • “The Roads not Taken? Separatist Bi-nationalism in Mandatory Palestine”

    Speaker: Dr. Adi Livny, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Middlebury

    Dr. Livny holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an historian of Zionism and Israel. She also coordinated the international project “The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University: German-Jewish Knowledge and Cultural Transfer 1918-1948,” an Israeli-German collaboration that involved cataloging and evaluating the archive’s materials from the pre-state era. She is the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Middlebury.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

  • Reading and Lecture by Moriel Rothman-Zecher from "Before All The World"

    Moriel Rothman-Zecher reads from his new novel, Before All the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which follows two Yiddish-speaking immigrants from a fictional shtetl in Northeastern Ukraine, to Philadelphia of the 1930s, where they connect to a Black, communist writer, and the three of them try to navigate America’s racial and sexual politics, alone and together. 

    Short Bio for Moriel Rothman-Zecher

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

  • 2021 Hannah A. Quint lecture in Jewish Studies: Does the History of Antisemitism tell us Anything about its Future?

    Professor David Nirenberg of the University of Chicago will deliver the Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies on the topic: “What Does the History of Anti-Semitism Tell Us About its Future?” David Nirenberg is Dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought. This is the 32nd Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, established by the late Eliot Levinson, Class of 1964, in honor of his late mother, Mrs. Quint.

    Virtual Middlebury

    Open to the Public

  • CANCELLED: 2020 Hannah A. Quint lecture in Jewish Studies

    Professor David Nirenberg of the University of Chicago will deliver the Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies on the topic: “What Does the History of Anti-Semitism Tell Us About its Future?” David Nirenberg is Dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought. This is the 32nd Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, established by the late Eliot Levinson, Class of 1964, in honor of his late mother, Mrs. Quint.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

    Open to the Public

  • Jewish Studies: Moriel Rothman-Zecher '11 Reading from his novel, "Sadness is a White Bird"

    Moriel Rothman-Zecher, ‘11, returns to Middlebury to read from his first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, a coming-of-age novel of which the Jerusalem Post has said that it “conveys the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian life with passion, nuance and tenderness…” Rothman-Zecher “has shown a fearlessness and vulnerability on these pages that speak to his ability to explore difficult terrain without feeling the need to draw any neat or concise conclusions. It shuns certainty and is open, nuanced, inconclusive and often contradictory.

    Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

  • Jewish Refugees in Israeli Camps: Iraqi Jews in the 1950s

    Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) will discuss her new book Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Stanford University Press, 2017). Professor Bashkin’s book is co-winner of the 2018 Nikki Keddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association. The lecture will relate the experience of tens of thousands of Arabic-speaking Iraqi Jews who migrated to Israel between 1949-1951, and will survey their struggle for resettlement and civil rights during the 1950s, as well as the discrimination they faced from the Israeli government and Ashkenazi Jews.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

  • Remembering Amos Oz (1939-2018): Readings and Recollections

    Amos Oz, who died last year on the 28th of December, was a beloved Israeli writer, and probably the most widely known figure in modern Hebrew literature outside Israel. His works—novels, short stories, essays, memoir—have been translated into 45 languages. He was also one of the first, after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, to call for a two-state solution to the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and the State of Israel.

    Sponsored by the Hebrew Program and the Jewish Studies Program.

    Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

    Open to the Public

Program in Jewish Studies

Munroe Hall
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Vijaya L. Wunnava, Coordinator

Axinn Center 243

(802) 443-5009

vwunnava@middlebury.edu

Robert S. Schine, Director

Munroe Hall 211

(802) 443-5151

schine@middlebury.edu