• Seminar with Christa Whitney

    UWM Library E272 (former DH Lab)

    Building an Archive of Language, Identity, and Diaspora: The Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project Wed February 7, 2024 3:30 – 4:30 pm UWM Library E272 (former DH Lab) How does one create an archive? What is oral history? …

  • The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians

    Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

    Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture “The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians” Lecture by Grace Kessler Overbeke Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:00 p.m. CST Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center and via Zoom …

  • Afternoon Seminar with James Loeffler

    Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, Nicholas Innovation Commons (Room 105)

    James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University Searching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, I discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s …

  • 2024 Stahl Center Distinguished Lecture

    Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

    James Loeffler, “The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law” Register for Zoom meeting. Can law stem hate speech without violating the First Amendment? In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois filed a class …

  • Wild Burning Rage and Song: Replies to Scottsboro

    Milwaukee Youth Arts Center 325 W Walnut St, Milwaukee, WI

    The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies is proud to host "Wild Burning Rage and Song: Replies to Scottsboro" as part of our "Colors of Jewishness" series The Scottsboro Trials stand as one of the most renowned miscarriages …

  • Jodi Eichler-Levine, “Bezalel’s Daughter: How Jewish Women Make Objects”

    Curtin Hall 175 3243 N. Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
    Hybrid Event

    2025 Faye Greenberg Sigman "Woman of Valor" Lecture  7 pm UWM, Curtin Hall 175 Without Jewish American women, we would have no Barbie dolls, far less modern art, and less-interesting ritual objects. Through the stories of women artists, crafters, and …