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Stanford Jewish Studies graduate students from across the disciplines are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the field. Congratulations to these students!
- Nesi Altaras (PhD Candidate, History) will speak at the Jewish Community Library on April 30, "An Evening with Ladino: Exploring Sephardic Culture Through…
Prolific poet and essayist, Charles Bernstein, joins PhD candidate Jon Tadmor to discuss what being Jewish looks like for a secular Jew in poetic writing and in life.
Peking University professor, Meng Yang, whose course about Jewish civilization is one of the most popular at the university, joins us to speak about the particular shape antisemitism takes in China and the ways her course addresses it. She joins Taube Center’s faculty director Vered Shemtov in conversation.
Anuj Amin. Photo by Romi Chiorean
PhD candidate Anuj Amin (Religious Studies) has been selected for the highly-competitive university-wide competition that showcases student scholarship through 3-minute presentations of their dissertations (3 Minute Thesis or 3MT). Anuj’s dissertation explores Aramaic incantation bowls as sites of lived religion, exploring how demons were conceptualized and ritually controlled across Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian…
Israeli Supreme Court Justice and legal scholar, Daphne Barak-Erez, joins Dr. Vered Shemtov for a rethinking of biblical stories, both famous and obscure, and how they inform contemporary legal thought.