2024-2025 Events
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2023-2024 Events
March 2024
Anna Pottier, a Nova Scotian Acadian artist and the wife of the late Canadian poet Irving Layton, will share her anecdotes about Leonard Cohen and his friendship with Irving Layton.
Moderated by Dr. Mehmet Karabela
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Join Dr. Sarah Imhoff for a discussion on her recent book - The Lives of Jessie Sampter
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Dunning Hall, Room 10
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Join us as Alan Verskin presents 'Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah'
2022-2023 Events
December 2022
2021-2022 Events
July, 2022
May 2022
2020-2021 Events
Recording of Event:
Join us on Sunday, February 13, 2022 from 2:00 - 5:00 PM for "A Jewish Odyssey Through the Lens of Yiddish Music" a live concert with Mitchell Smolkin.
Join singer and interlocutor Mitchell Smolkin on Zoom, as he takes a journey through Yiddish musicās history, exploring its origins, heritage, and impact, all from the Great Synagogue in Stockholm. Mitchell has been the Artistic Director of the Ashkenaz Festival throughout the early 2000s. Now based in Europe, and as part of his roles as curator and performer, he has had the opportunity to witness Yiddish musicās impact on four different continents. Mitchell will be joined by the very talented Jerry Abdo on accordion.
This event is part of the Irving and Regina Rosen Public Lecture Series.
Register for the event here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
May 2022
March, 2021
February, 2021
2019-2020 Events
Tatiana Yankelevich, Independent scholar and researcher, Associate, David Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
"Human Rights 30 Years after Andrei Sakharov"
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1:00-8:30 pm
Atrium at Agnes Etherington Art Centre & The Screening Room Theatre
"YidLive! PURIM Edition"
Monday, March 9, 2020
7:00-9:00 pm
Beth Israel
Dr. Bill Morrow, School of Religion, ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„
"Arguing with God: A Jewish Tradition"
Thursday, November 5, 2019
5:30pm
University Club - George Teeves Rm
Reception to follow
"Religion and the Alt-Right: Anti-Judaism and Islamophobia in Contemporary North America"
Thursday, October 17, 2019
3:30-6:30
Kingston 101
Light refreshments and a moderated Q&A will follow the discussion
"A Jewish Music Odyssey"
Saturday, October 5, 2019
7:30pm
Beth Israel
Come join Mitch and Nina as they share gems from their decades long musical relationship including touching and humorous translations from the American Songbook that were performed live on the radio throughout the 20th century in New York City and beyond. The concert will also feature heartfelt renditions of classic Yiddish songs and a selection of their favourite liturgical pieces.
"The Threat of Jewish Invisibility - Medieval, Early Modern, Modern"
Thursday, October 3, 2019
5:30pm
University Club - George Teeves Rm
Reception to follow
March 2020
Previous Events
October 16 - 5:30 pm - Harry and Sylvia Rosen Symposium in Jewish Studies
Dr Judith Cohen (York University) "Music in the Three Religions of Medieval Iberia"
University Club - George Teeves Rm
October 17 - 2:30 pm - Jewish Studies and The School of Religion
Dr Gary Waite (University of New Brunswick) "Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse"
Watson Hall Rm 517
November 1 - 5:30 pm - Irving and Regina Rosen Public Lecture in Jewish Studies
Dr Ruth Behar (University of Michigan) " How to Tell the Story of the Jews of Cuba: Memories, Stories, Dilemmas"
University Club - George Teeves Rm
February 12 - March 26 - Memory Wars Film Festival
Russian and East European Studies Network
February 12 - 6:00 pm - OUR CHILDREN (Poland, 1949)
Screening Room Theatre, 120 Princess Street
February 26 - 6:30 pm - EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (USA, 2005)
105 Miller Hall, ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„
March 6 - 5:30 pm - The Irving and Regina Rosen Public Lecture Series
Dr. Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University "The Exodus: Myth or History?"
University Club, Conference Room (downstairs)
March 12 - 6:30 pm - AFTERMATH (Poland, 2012)
105 Miller Hall, ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„
March 26 - 6:30 pm - SUNSHINE (Hungary, 1999)
105 Miller Hall, ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„