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November 2022
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Behind the Camera: |
Join Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, as she explores photographs featured in the special exhibition, This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, and the photographers who risked everything to take them. Photographers like Bob Adelman, Maria Varela, and Matt Heron weren’t just journalists, they were artists and they were activists, using their cameras to document moments that would become historical records of what happened during Freedom Summer in 1964 and beyond. A fascinating discussion for anyone who is interested in photography, journalism, and/or the Civil Rights Movement.
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Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005.
October 2022
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Women’s Roles across Literature, Culture, and the Rise of Feminism: 1973–2005 |
The Yiddish Book Center and The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization invite you to join Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in Chief of The Posen Library, for a discussion about women’s roles across literature and culture and the rise of feminism after 1973 as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022 Decade of Discovery: Women in Yiddish.
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Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005.
June 2022
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Jewish Writing during the Holocaust |
Catastrophe and Rebirth: 1939–1973, Volume 9 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization's anthology of Jewish writing, explores Jewish perceptions of the momentous events of the mid-twentieth century and how Jewish people around the world redefined themselves in the face of tragedy, displacement, and dispersion during the subsequent Jewish diaspora. Join Samuel D. Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, for a discussion about Jewish writing during the Holocaust and the era of transformation that followed. This program is presented in partnership with the University of Cape Town Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, and The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
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Samuel D. Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, is the author of many studies on Russian and Jewish history including Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press, 2007), which has been translated into eight languages. It received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Who Will Write Our History was adapted into a documentary of the same title in 2018. Kassow is coeditor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973.
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The Rise of Open & Hidden Nazism: Polish Jewish Reckonings with Danger and Powerlessness in the 1930s |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918–1939 introduces readers to a world that they did not know existed. Rapid, dramatic change characterized the short twenty-year interval between the two world wars. In Europe, economic crises after 1929, strident nationalist movements and militant radical parties, political polarization and the erosion of liberalism, and the slide from democratic to authoritarian norms undermined Jewish hopes for stability and security, especially in the new states that emerged in Eastern and Central Europe. Join Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History at the University of Chicago, for a discussion of how Polish Jewry’s most searching thinkers confronted unexpected political dangers at home and abroad, how Jewish cultural activists and writers confronted the prospect of a communal life undermined by despair or worse, and how ordinary Polish Jews struggled to find a path to a viable future – for themselves if not for the community. This program is presented in partnership with the University of Cape Town Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, and The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
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Kenneth B. Moss is the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2009), which received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland, which was supported by a Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and which has just appeared from Harvard University Press. He is co-editor with Ben Nathans and Taro Tsurumi of From Europe’s East to the Middle East (UPenn Press, 2021). With Israel Bartal, he is co-editing volume 7 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918 (Yale University Press, forthcoming). From 2014 to 2020, he coedited Jewish Social Studies.
May 2022
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The Emergence of Holocaust Consciousness and Its Permutations |
November 2021
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The JTS Between the Lines Series: |
Join editors Jeffrey H. Tigay, Alison L. Joseph, and Deborah Dash Moore when they talk about their book, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE, which covers a period in history that witnessed the initial development of many phenomena that would come to define Jewish culture and civilization.
This volume is chronologically the first of a monumental anthology of primary sources. It covers the longest time period of any of The Posen Library volumes, reaching back into the second millennium BCE and extending into the fourth century BCE. It covers the development of the Hebrew language and alphabet, Israelite/Jewish law and religion, the books of the Bible, Israel’s ancient cultural innovations, and more.
The volume juxtaposes extrabiblical inscriptions and documents side by side with biblical materials to illuminate the legal, religious, and cultural environment of the Israelites of that time. It draws on archaeological evidence and a rich sampling of visual and material culture to complement the written texts.
Booklist Starred Review writes: “This set will serve to improve teaching and research in Jewish studies at institutions of higher learning and, at the same time, promote, maintain, and improve understanding of the Jewish population and Judaism in general.”
This event is sponsored by The JTS Library. Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS, will serve as moderator.
Speakers
Jeffrey H. Tigay is Emeritus A. M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1971 to 2010.
Alison L. Joseph is senior editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Civilization and Culture. She brings her academic expertise in Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism to the management of the ancient volumes of The Posen Library. Drawing from years of university teaching, research, and publication in Jewish Studies, and her own public-facing digital scholarship, Dr. Joseph works on the Posen Digital Library to bring the content of the anthology alive in digital format.
Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is editor-in-chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
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Are There New Ways of Reading the Bible in the 21st Century? |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and the Center for Jewish History invite you to join Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in Chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, and Alison L. Joseph, Senior Editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Civilization and Culture for a discussion of how we can read the Bible today in relation to the development of Judaism from ancient times to the present.
Speakers
Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan; Editor in Chief, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
Alison L. Joseph is Senior Editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Civilization and Culture. She brings her academic expertise in Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism to the management of the ancient volumes of The Posen Library.
October 2021
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Why 1973, 1977, 1989 & 1993 are Critical Years at the End of the 20th Century |
From Watergate, the assassination of Allende in Chile and the Yom Kippur War to the election of Menachem Begin, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the march for Soviet Jewry and the signing of the Oslo Accords, a lot happened in the world in 1973, 1977, 1989 and 1993. Join American Jewish historian, Deborah Dash Moore, editor-in-chief at The Posen Library, for a discussion about these events and the impact they had on the Jewish community. Moore will be in conversation with Robert Siegel, Moment special literary contributor and former senior host of NPR’s All Things Considered. This program is a continuation of Moment’s time symposium where they explored the most important years in Jewish history.
Speakers
Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan; Editor in Chief, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
Robert Siegel, special literary correspondent for Moment and former senior host of NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Jewish Writing During the Holocaust |
Catastrophe and Rebirth: 1939–1973, Volume 9 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization's anthology of Jewish writing, explores Jewish perceptions of the momentous events of the mid-twentieth century and how Jewish people around the world redefined themselves in the face of tragedy, displacement, and dispersion during the subsequent Jewish diaspora. Join Samuel D. Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in Chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, for a discussion about Jewish writing during the Holocaust and the era of transformation that followed. This program is presented in partnership with The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
Speakers
Samuel Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History, Trinity College; co-editor, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973, and author of Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto.
Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan; Editor in Chief, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
April 2021
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“What's New in the Bible (Remote)” |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Series for the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University event on April 28 will focus on The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 1, Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE, edited by Jeffrey H. Tigay and Adele Berlin, and will feature a lecture by Alison Joseph, Author, Biblical Scholar, and Senior Editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Civilization and Culture and will be moderated by Deborah Dash Moore, Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library; Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan and Gila Silverman, Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning, Siegal Lifelong Learning, Case Western Reserve University.
For two thousand years, Jews and Christians have been reading the Hebrew Bible. Are there new ways to read it in the 21st century? To uncover what’s new in this ancient document, join Alison Joseph, in conversation with Deborah Dash Moore, as they discuss what can be learned about the Torah laws when you set them alongside non-biblical legal documents of the period? How does reading Miriam’s song next to Deborah’s song change how we understand these pieces of poetry? What can artifacts of this period show us about daily life in ancient Israel—its religious practices, household tasks, architecture, and art? Explore how we can read the Bible today in relation to the development of Judaism from ancient times to the present.
Alison Joseph brings her academic expertise in Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism to The Posen Library. She earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.A. in Jewish Studies from Emory University. Her first book Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics received the 2016 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise.
Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973-2005.
Gila Silverman is Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning, Siegal Lifelong Learning. An educator, researcher and writer, she holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Vassar College, and a master’s in public health and a PhD in sociocultural and medical anthropology, both from the University of Arizona. Most recently, Silverman has been a visiting scholar with the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.
December 2020
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Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973, |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invite you to join Samuel D. Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and David G. Roskies, the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and a professor of Jewish literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary, for a discussion of some of the many themes in their recently published volume, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973.
In this virtual event, Daniel Posen, CEO of the Posen Foundation, will present to the Museum’s Library a copy of Volume 9, which encompasses the Holocaust era and the postwar period through 1973.The program will feature discussion by the editors of the volume’s themes and their approach underlying the selection of the texts, moderated by Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in Chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. The features and significance of the open access resource,The Posen Digital Library, will also be considered.
Speakers
Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan; Editor-in-Chief, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
Samuel Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History, Trinity College; Co-Editor, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973.
David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture, Professor of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary; Co-Editor, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973.
Reservations are required.
November 2020
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“Challenges to the Establishment of a
Jewish State” |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Series for the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University on November 17 will feature The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9, Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973, edited by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies which will be released in November 2020. This event will feature both volume editors.
The establishment of a Jewish State presented growing challenges to the collectivist, statist, patriotic, Zionist narrative that dominated Israel's early years. Kassow and Roskies will examine Jewish writing during the Holocaust, the Renaissance of Jewish life in America after WWII and Jewish creativity behind the iron curtain in the Soviet Union before 1973 as they tie into the foundations and formation of the Jewish State of Israel.
Samuel Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, is the author of many studies on Russian and Jewish history including Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum, The Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press, 2007), which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.
David G. Roskies is a native of Montreal, Canada, and a product of its Yiddish secular schools. Roskies teaches Yiddish literature and culture and Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author of many books, his major works include Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (1984), which won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize from Phi Beta Kappa. Roskies was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.
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“Secularism and Religious
Tradition” |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Series for the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University on November 11 will feature The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918–1939, edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, and will feature both volume editors.
One conspicuous feature of the Jewish cultural and political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s was the robust health of Jewish movements that were avowedly secular in their outlook. The most prominent were Bundism, Labor Zionism, and Yiddishism. Professors Gitelman and Endelman will discuss how these secular movements confronted Jewish civilization's religious heritage.
Todd M. Endelman is professor emeritus of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. He is the author of many books, most recently, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (2015), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Prize.
Zvi Gitelman is professor emeritus of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited eighteen books, the most recent of which is the edited volume, The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
October 2020
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“Voices of Jewish Women” |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Series for the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University on October 28 will focus on The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach and will feature Elisheva Carlebach.
Learn about a momentous period in Jewish women’s history (1750 – 1880), a time “in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the most profound changes to have occurred since antiquity.” Representing a tumultuous era of changing borders, demographic shifts, and significant Jewish migration, this discussion will explore how Jewish women responded to the challenges with a range of responses to modernization, from welcoming to resistant. By defining Jewish cultural production inclusively, Carlebach illuminates heretofore neglected voices and Jewish choices.
Elisheva Carlebach, editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, is Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society and director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe.
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“Critical Years at the End of the
Twentieth Century: 1973, 1977, 1989, and 1993” |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Series for the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University event on October 21 will focus on The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 10, Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005, edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz, and will feature Deborah Dash Moore.
The end of the 20th century hosted quite a few critical historical events which will be examined during this lecture. These events include the rise of feminism, the emergence of Holocaust consciousness and its permutations, Jewish Nobel prize winners for literature, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Menachem Begin, and the creation of the Oslo Accords.
Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973-2005.
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“Between the World Wars: Great Creativity and Growing Crisis” |
Join a conversation with Todd Endelman, Zvi Gitelman, and Deborah Dash Moore to celebrate the publication of Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918–1939 edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, Volume 8 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. They will be introduced by Jeffrey Veidlinger, Director of the Frankel Center of Judaic Studies. This compilation of Jewish primary sources produced between the world wars examines what was simultaneously a tense and innovative period in modern Jewish history. During these decades, Jews vigorously fought over religion, politics, migration, and their relation to the state and to one another. Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman’s selections capture the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity and true courage in those tempestuous years. The texts, translated from many languages, span a wide range of politics, culture, literature, and art. Join Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman in a fascinating discussion of the volume and enjoy a sample of its riches.
Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005.
Todd M. Endelman is professor emeritus of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. He is the author of many books, most recently, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (2015), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Prize.
Zvi Gitelman is professor emeritus of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited eighteen books, the most recent of which is the edited volume, The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
September 2020
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“Midwives,
Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Stories Will Become Jewish History?” |
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and the Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the American Sephardi Federation invite you to a lively discussion on “Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Stories Will Become Jewish History?” Professor Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in chief of The Posen Library, will lead a discussion with Professor Elisheva Carlebach and Dr. Dara Horn on themes explored in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. The event will include a musical performance by Itamar Borochov.
Hear voices rarely included in Jewish culture, such as that of Roza, a multilingual Jewish midwife and that of a Jewish soldier during the American Civil War. Learn about the powerful religious music inspiring artists of today. Explore passionate Jewish debates on all sides of religious and political issues, including such fundamental matters as private property and the institution of slavery.
What happens to our understanding of Jewish civilization when those who are often marginalized move to the center of the story? Discover the unexpected breadth of Jewish culture.
Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005.
Elisheva Carlebach, editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, is Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society and director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe.
Dara Horn is an award-winning novelist and professor of Hebrew and Yiddish. Her most recent novel is Eternal Life.
Jazz trumpeter Itamar Borochov is known for incorporating Sephardic synagogue music with modal jazz.
