In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a host of Jewish outsiders came to play a critical role in modern art as dealers, collectors, critics, and, not least, as artists. This talk looks at the role of Jews in modern art by focusing on the stories of a few remarkable individuals and how and […]

Discover how the bountiful American West is a significant geography for understanding the modern Jewish American experience. Cost for the four meetings: $160 Maxwell Greenberg Professor of Jewish American Studies Maxwell Greenberg is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, religion and gender in the North American West and currently serves as the Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish […]

Professor of Art History and author of Sculpting a Life, the first book -length biography of the artist Chana Orloff, Paula Birnbaum explores the fiercely determined and ambitious woman who fled antisemitism in Ukraine, emigrated to Palestine with her family, then travelled to Paris to work in haute couture before becoming an internationally recognized artist. […]

Peter Orner, a three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, is the author of six books, including Esther Stories, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. The recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fulbright to Namibia, Orner directs the creative writing program at Dartmouth College.  On February 9th, author Peter Orner will speak on the […]

Discover how the bountiful American West is a significant geography for understanding the modern Jewish American experience. Cost for the four meetings: $160 Maxwell Greenberg Professor of Jewish American Studies Maxwell Greenberg is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, religion and gender in the North American West and currently serves as the Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish […]

At 4:30pm There will be a reading during the event by Sally Van Doren and guest writer Roxana Robinson. Intention. Improvisation. Accident. All three of these are guiding influences in Sally Van Doren’s lyrical work.  An award-winning poet, Van Doren seeks to create connections among words, images and poetic constructs. Her paintings, drawings, prints and […]

For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from […]