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  • Translating and Recovering Miriam Karpilove, Yiddish Authoress

    UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Jessica Kirzane presents the 2023 Faye Greenberg Sigman Woman of Valor Lecture. In person and via Zoom. For Zoom link register at https://bit.ly/Kirzane Miriam Karpilove (1888-1956) was a prolific Yiddish writer certain of her own importance, even as she was …

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  • Who Will Remain? (film screening and talkback)

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    A documentary film from the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project follows one woman's journey to understand her grandfather. In an attempt to better understand her grandfather (Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever), Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania and …

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

    UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Before The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a ‘boys’ club,’ the truth is that there have always been influential women on …

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  • The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law – EVENT CANCELED

    UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois, filed a lawsuit to stop a planned neo-Nazi march by alleging menticide—the psychological equivalent of genocide. In this lecture, historian James …

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  • Searching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism

    UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, Dr. James Loeffler will discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s creation of the legal concept of genocide in interwar Polish Jewish culture. …

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  • The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law

    UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The 2024 Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, Distinguished Lecture by James Loeffler. This event is both in-person or via Zoom. To register for the Zoom link see https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8tdtZrqyTdecQvrjdfKEyg#/registration Can law limit hate speech without violating the First …

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  • Jennifer Caplan, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender”

    UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in …