VIRTUAL PANEL: The Advocates: The Parthenon Marbles Debate In partnership with the English Speaking Union and the Greek Consulate with Cassandra Albinson, Joan Breton Connelly, Charles Dellheim, Michael Dukakis, Millette Gaifman, Joseph Hern, Elizabeth Marlowe, Carol Scollans When the Parthenon fell into ruins in 1801, a British ambassador with permission from the Ottoman Empire preserved about half of the sculptures and then later sold […]
Tower Hill Botanic Garden presents Michael Wojtech online to discuss "The Growth of Trees: A Journey Through Times." A limited number of participants can register to join Michael outside at Tower Hill on October 9, 10:30 – 12:00. Visit the Tower Hill Calendar to register for either the live webinar or live webinar & field […]
iRead Book Club: The Book Smugglers Join us for a book discussion led by Museum historians and educators. This session, we will discuss The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman. The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of residents of the Vilna Ghetto during the […]
Join us for a book launch of Jan Nisbet's Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities. This is the first book on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults with disabilities. This event will include an […]
A SECULAR TALMUDIC: RECONNECTING WITH JEWISH TRADITION Imagine reading a page of Talmud every single day for more than seven years. Not just reading it, the way you skim quickly through a mystery novel. Studying it, deciphering it, searching for hidden meanings. Then imagine doing all that if you are unabashedly secular. Poet and literary […]
Temple Isaiah (Lexington, MA) will host an evening talk with Charles Dellheim about his new book. Since the late 1990’s the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause célèbre, a controversial issue that has attrated a great deal of public attention. In his new book, Belonging and Betrayal, Professor Charles Dellheim reveals how […]
Jews and Modern Art Charles Dellheim What did Jews contribute to the modern art movement? Was modernism essentially Jewish? How did Jewish outsiders come to acquire so many modern masterpieces? Boston University history professor and author Charles Dellheim explores these questions, illuminates new findings about the role of Jewish art collectors, artists, and gallerists in […]
Kehillat Israel is excited to welcome author Adam Kirsch for a conversation with Rabbi William Hamilton on Tuesday, November 2 at 7:30PM on Zoom. The event is in conjunction with Brandeis University Press in honor of Kirsch's important new book, Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-half-year Journey Through the Talmud. Kirsch is […]
The Streicker Center will host Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Elisheva Carlebac, and Alexander Kaye as they discuss Transmitting Jewish History, a new book that paints a revealing portrait of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, a giant of history, bringing together exceptional material on Yerushalmi’s personal and intellectual journeys that not only attests to the astonishing breakthrough of the issues […]
Vultures are often overlooked, underappreciated, and unloved, despite the vital role they play healthy ecosystems. Worldwide, vultures are more likely to be threatened or endangered than any other group of raptor, but in the United States Turkey and Black Vultures may be increasing in number. Based on Katie Fallon’s recent book, this fun presentation […]
Jews and Modern Art Charles Dellheim What did Jews contribute to the modern art movement? Was modernism essentially Jewish? How did Jewish outsiders come to acquire so many modern masterpieces? Boston University history professor and author Charles Dellheim explores these questions, illuminates new findings about the role of Jewish art collectors, artists, and gallerists in […]
Join author Nancy Langston and Brian Donahue, associate professor for Environmental Studies at Brandeis, for a book discussion about climate change and human impact on three species in the U.S. Great Lakes region. In her book “Climate Ghosts,” environmental historian Langston researches the three so-called “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, […]
Join authorNancy Langston (distinguished professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University) and Brian Donahue (associate professor for Environmental Studies at Brandeis) for a book discussion about climate change and human impact on three species in the U.S. Great Lakes region. This program is co-sponsored by the Brandeis University Press and the Brandeis Alumni Association. Sign up HERE.
It was the largest art theft in history, a treasure trove of Picassos, Chagalls and Cézannes heisted by the Nazis. While its fate has long been a cause célèbre, how did the Jewish owners of these masterpieces come to acquire them in the first place? In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim explores that question and what the answer […]
Jews and Modern Art Charles Dellheim What did Jews contribute to the modern art movement? Was modernism essentially Jewish? How did Jewish outsiders come to acquire so many modern masterpieces? Boston University history professor and author Charles Dellheim explores these questions, illuminates new findings about the role of Jewish art collectors, artists, and gallerists in […]
