PURIM ITALIAN STYLE
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Join Rav Umberto Piperno in celebrating Purim with JICNY! Traditional Roman Megillah reading, Venetian masks, and Judeo-Italian treats! More information |
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This month Centro Primo Levi co-presents two lectures that have been scheduled on the same day at different venues.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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The Jewish Ghetto of Rome
February 16 | 5:30 pm | read more
The Italian Academy at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave. (@118th Street)
Free and open to the public, Rsvp through the IA website: www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
Due to the overwhelming response, this event will be held in the theater and seats are now available!
Prof. Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa, Israel)
"Doing as the Romans Do" . . . But Also Staying Jewish:
The Challenge of Life in the Roman Ghetto, 1555-1870
Dr. Irina Oryshkevich (Columbia University)
Accommodating the Jews in the "New Jerusalem"
www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
In 1555 the Jews of Rome --residents since ancient times-- were forced
to live in the "Ghetto," a neighborhood on the bank of the Tiber River.
This restriction was part of an attempt to strip the Jews of their
culture and hasten their conversion to Christianity, but it had an
opposite effect, leading to the development of a vibrant subculture. On
the evening of February 16, Professor Stow will speak on the elements
of that culture and how it was challenged within the context of a state
where religion and politics strove to be one and neither brooked
opposition well. Dr. Oryshkevich will offer observations about the
urban fabric of Rome.
Kenneth Stow is Emeritus Professor at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is considered an authority on the history of Roman Jewry in the Early Modern Age; In one of his best known books, Theater of Acculturation: the Roman Ghetto in the 16th century (Seattle 2001); Stow applies the concept of "social theater" to illuminate the role-playing that Jews adopted as a means of survival within the dominant Christian environment. He is also the author of Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy (1555-1593) (New York 1977); Alienated Minority: the Jews of Latin medieval Europe (Cambridge MA, 1992); Jewish Dogs: An Image and its Interpreters (Stanford CA., 2006).
Irina Oryshkevich is an art historian studying Rome from late antiquity
to the early modern period; she has been a fellow at the Italian
Academy and at the Society of Fellows at Columbia University and a
recipient of a grant from the American Association of University Women.
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Jews and the Present of the Past | Manuela Consonni introduces Kenneth Stow
The experience of the Shoah, seen within the context of what I deem the unique Roman Jewish existence, illustrates the difficulty Europe has had in defining itself in other than Christian terms. The problem really exists in the United States, too, but nobody dares say it. Putatively, the French Revolution ushered in the era of a secular corpus rei publicae politicum, but large elements in France refused to recognize this structural revolution, and these same people were confused, if not angered, by the concept of corpus. The political Corpus was, had been, and rightly should continue to be that of Christ, the Corpus Christi. Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were depicted as crucified, not executed.
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Between Sacred and Profane: Jews and the Modern City. Three Snapshots
February 16 | 6:30 pm | read more
Center for Jewish History - 15 West 16th Street, NYC
Presented by the University of Pennsylvania in cooperation with the Yeshiva University Museum, the Center for Jewish History, and Centro Primo Levi.
Admission: free. Reservations suggested
RSVP to programs@yum.cjh.org or 212-294-8330 x. 8816
David Myers, UCLA,
Between Sacred and Profane: Jews and the Modern City.
Three Snapshots
The series | Secular and Sacred in the Modern Jewish World
This lecture will address the Jewish encounter with the modern city, focusing on three distinct venues: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Kiryas Joel, New York. The modern city is often seen as a decidedly secular site, a place where Jews came to flee their traditional background. And yet, the modern city has also been the site of intense religious innovation, experimentation, and neo-traditionalism. The lecture will explore the city as a site of both the secular and religious in three surprising urban Jewish centers.
David Myers received his doctorate in Jewish History from Columbia University. He is Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History at UCLA and previously served as Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He has published widely in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history and co-edits the journal Jewish Quarterly Review.
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