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Symposium and Keynote Address (5/22-24)

Posted on May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

CONTACT: Meetings and Movements of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries
Co-sponsored by the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at YSU and the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue University

May 22-24, 2022 at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Steel Museum), 151 W. Wood Street, Youngstown

Keynote: May 22 at 6:00 in person and online
Dr. Anat Plocker, “‘A Dream of Belonging’ The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland”

All sessions are open to the public. More information.

Hannah Klacik’s MA Thesis on Rodef Sholom

Posted on May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

Please join Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz and the CJHS in congratulating Hannah Klacik on the submission and approval of her MA Thesis for a graduate degree in history at Youngstown State University. We appreciate her generosity in making it available here.

Hannah Klacík, “Architecture and Community: Congregation Rodef Sholom, Youngstown, OH” (MA Thesis, YSU, 2022).

Keynote Address Announcement

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

We’re excited for Dr. Anat Plocker’s keynote address, “‘A Dream of Belonging’: The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland”

Sunday, May 22 at 6:00 PM eastern at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Steel Museum). We also hope to livestream and record the talk.

Dr. Plocker’s Keynote will open our symposium, co-organized with the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue University, “Meeting and Movements of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries.”

More information / Purchase Dr. Plocker’s book.

Model Knesset in the News

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

Coverage of Dr. Adam Fuller’s Model Knesset at YSU in Youngstown’s “Jewish Journal.”

Model Knesset, Spring 2022

Posted on April 20, 2022April 21, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

What a wonderfully successful and educational event!
To learn more about Dr. Adam Fuller’s Model Knesset program, click here.
To view pictures from this year’s Model Knesset, click here.

**The Winning Coalition**
From right to left: Jacob Stanko (Likud), Nicholas Spano (Labour), Casey Schwab (Ra’am)
Antonio Campolito (Religious Zionist Party), Ryan Sinopoli (Blue & White), Justin Madura (Shas) Ryan Scherer (United Torah Judaism)

Dr. Elly Moseson, “Protecting House and Hearth: Jewish Domestic Magic in Pre-Modern Europe,” Emerging Scholars Lecture Series (April 12, 2022, YSU / Kent State)

Posted on April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

Dr. Elly Moseson joined us to deliver the last of three talks in our Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, which we co-organize with the Jewish Studies Program at Kent State University. For more information about our Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, click here.

“Models of Israeli-Palestinian Peace” – Dr. Ilan Peleg

Posted on April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

We welcomed Dr. Ilan Peleg (Lafayette College) to YSU on April 11th for a discussion about different pathways to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. We are grateful to Dr. Peleg for his time and for allowing us to share his talk online for those who may have missed it or those who would like to revisit his ideas. We also thank Dr. Adam Fuller for inviting Dr. Peleg to join us.

Model Knesset (Israeli Parliament) / April 18 at 5:00 PM

Posted on March 25, 2022April 11, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

Dr. Adam Fuller’s “Israeli Politics” course culminates in a Model Knesset (Israeli Parliament).

This semester’s Model Knesset will be held on April 18, 2022 at 5:00 pm at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Steel Museum). The event is free and open to the public. A light buffet dinner will be served.

For more information and videos, click here.

Dr. Adam Fuller on Russia’s War on Ukraine

Posted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

CJHS faculty affiliate and Academic Advisory Committee member spoke with WFMJ about Russia’s war on Ukraine and US responses. For more, click here.

WFMJ.com News weather sports for Youngstown-Warren Ohio

Lecture: Dr. C. Tova Markenson, “Jewish Feelings: Performing Tsuris (Troubles) at the Yiddish Theatres in Buenos Aires, 1880-1940” (3/15)

Posted on March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 by Jacob Labendz

Online webinar (only). Register here.
In partnership with the Jewish Studies Program at Kent State University

Dr. C. Tova Markenson
Assistant Professor
Academy for Jewish Religion

“Jewish Feelings: Performing Tsuris (Troubles) at the Yiddish Theatres in Buenos Aires, 1880-1940″

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 5:00 pm (eastern) / Online only with registration in advance.

Dr. Markenson asks, “How can we be present to the past when that history is filled with shame?” This project is the first full-length study of a locus of shame for diasporic Jews, the Yiddish theatres in Buenos Aires, which many believed maintained business ties with Jewish pimps. Amidst antisemitic stereotypes that Jews were sexually deviant—and the historical reality that some Jews were sex workers—many have dismissed the Argentinean Yiddish theatres as a “low brow” cultural arena. Arguing that the Yiddish theatres in Buenos Aires were a flash point for conflict about acceptable performances of Jewishness, I build on methods from theatre studies and affect studies to support interdisciplinary scholars of Jewish Studies in “making sense” of shame.