Venice Project for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies   Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia   Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici     First International Lecture   ARON RODRIGUE (Stanford University)   Reflections on the History and Culture of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire     LUNEDI 3 FEBBRAIO 2014, ore 16   Sala Berengo, Ca' Foscari (sede centrale) Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 ...

Dear Friends   we are happy to invite you to a lecture by our current writer-in-residence CLIVE SINCLAIR, who will talk on   What's in a name? Yids & Redskins    addressing recent controversies on the use of ethnic and religious labels in professional sports.   Tuesday, 12 November, 5.30pm Casa Artom, Wake Forest University Dorsoduro 699 (next to Guggenheim Museum)     Il Centro veneziano di studi ebraici internazionali  venicejewishstudies.org [email protected]   

You are cordially invited to the lecture   Jewish Culture in Europe: Genuine or Appropriation?    Joël Cahen (Managing Director, Jewish Museum of Amsterdam)   Thursday, 17th October 2013, 6.30pm Jewish Museum of Venice Cannaregio, 2902/b 30121 Venezia   RVSP [email protected] 041.715359   In collaboration with Museo Ebraico di Venezia - Coopculture - Jewish Community of Venice

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THE JEWISH BOOK: Histories, Media, Metaphors Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, 9-12 June 2013   9 June, 6pm Sala Montefiore, Jewish Community of Venice - Special preview event Alberto Manguel (writer), Venice as Book, an Attempt at Reading (in Italian with English translation)   10 June, 3 pm - Aula Baratto, Ca'Foscari University of Venice Opening remarks Panel 1 READING, CENSORING AND SELLING BOOKS Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University), Publications in time of Burnings: Printing the Hebrew Canon 1545-1565  Piero Capelli ...

The Center would like to announce the pubblication of the book Vita quotidiana nel ghetto. Storia e società nella rappresentazione letteraria (sec.XIII-XX). For more information, please click here.

Ktav Et, an indisciplinary international on-line journal, designed exclusively for aspiring (pre-Ph.D.) researchers in Jewish Studies, is accepting papers in English or Hebrew. For more information, please click here or see attached.

Santa Cruz, CA, USA.  May 22 - May 24, 2011.        Humanities and Social Science Facility “L’Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity.  Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity, reminding us ...