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March 2019
Poetry at the Center: Dr. Richard Chess
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a discussion with Dr. Richard Chess. Dr. Chess is the author of four books of poetry. He is an award winning professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville. In recent years, he has become active in the national movement exploring the use of contemplative pedagogy in higher education. He has served on the faculty of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) Summer Seminar in Contemplative Pedagogy Development (2015),…
Find out more »Mapping the Spirit: Geography of Hasidism
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a lecture by Marcin Wodziński. Professor Wodziński's lecture will examine the rise of Hasidism among East European Jewry in the eighteenth century and the borders which limited the movement. Additionally, he will consider the resurrection and strength of Hasidism from the post-Holocaust era to today. These and other topics will inform the lecture about the geography of this socio-religious movement in modern Judaism. Marcin Wodziński is Professor of Jewish history and literature,…
Find out more »April 2019
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Doubt and Religious Psychotherapy
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a lecture by Dr. Ayala Fader. During this talk, Dr. Fader will explore the emergence of religious (frum) therapy as a treatment for ultra-Orthodox Jews with life-changing doubt. Married and with children, these ultra-Orthodox men and women often live “double lives,” no longer believing in divine revelation, but continuing to practice publicly to protect their families. When double lifers’ doubting is uncovered or confessed they are often sent by a rabbi to…
Find out more »Contemporary White Supremacy in America: What are its Links to the Nazi Past?
The Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University is pleased to announce its day-long conference. Held at the National Press Club, this forum seeks to examine how hate groups in the United States draw upon ideas, propaganda, recruiting techniques, and worldviews from the Nazi era. In what ways do extremists in this country invoke the anti-Semitic theories and practices of their Nazi forerunners? And in what ways do they diverge and/or offer new perspectives and tools for disseminating hatred of…
Find out more »Poetry at the Center: Dr. Laura Cesarco Eglin
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a conversation by Dr. Laura Cesarco Eglin. Dr. Cesarco Eglin is the author of three collections of poetry, Los brazos del saguaro (Yaugurú, 2015), Sastrería (Yaugurú, 2011), and Llamar al agua por su nombre (Mouthfeel Press, 2010). Cesarco Eglin’s poetry appears in América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets (University of New Mexico Press, 2016). Cesarco Eglin’s work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the co-founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books. Light refreshments will…
Find out more »Book Discussion: Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a discussion of Dr. Marc Saperstein's book Agony in the Pulpit. About the book: Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945—citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters—but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the growing oppression of European Jews have been largely neglected. Agony in the Pulpit is a response to this neglect and to the accusations made by…
Find out more »Book Discussion: Agony in the Pulpit by Dr. Marc Saperstein
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a discussion of Dr. Marc Saperstein's book Agony in the Pulpit. About the book: Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945—citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters—but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the growing oppression of European Jews have been largely neglected. Agony in the Pulpit is a response to this neglect and to…
Find out more »The Jewish Community and the 116th Congress
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a lecture by Ambassador David Saperstein. Ambassador Saperstein was the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom from January 2015 to January 2017. He is currently an adjunct professor with the Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Center for Jewish Civilization and previously was a senior research fellow of the Religious Freedom Research Project at the Berkley Center. An ordained rabbi, he served for several decades as the director of the Religious Action Center…
Find out more »Book Launch: Some Unimaginable Animal
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a conversation with Dr. David Ebenbach. Dr. Ebenbach is the author of seven books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, winners of such awards as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the Juniper Prize, and the Orison Books' Fiction Prize. He lives in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing and literature in Georgetown University's Center for Jewish Civilization and where he researches and promotes whole-student and inclusive education through Georgetown's Center for New…
Find out more »September 2019
Disloyal/Loyal? American Judaism in the Era of the Trump Presidency
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to join us for our dialogue about American Jews in the Era of the Trump Presidency. President Donald J. Trump’s recent aside about loyal and disloyal Jewish Americans triggered anger and denunciations from a broad spectrum of American voices. Trump’s remarks are triangulated against two salient features of his presidency. First, his tight embrace of the Netenyahu administration, and second, the disturbing rise of white supremacist violence directed against Jews and others in…
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