Jewish Community Center’s Winter Speaker Series: Professor Nathaniel Deutsch
Join the Jewish Community Center’s free Winter Speaker Series, where local scholars share with us some of what they are working on and thinking about. This is an opportunity to find out what’s at the forefront of Judaic studies from our very own experts.
Kabbalah on the Margins: Sabbatian, Jewish-Christian, and Theatrical Transformations of the Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Society
Please join us for an international conference on the Kabbalah, bringing together four eminent scholars of Jewish mysticism from France, Israel, and the United States.
Jean Baumgarten: “The Popularization of the Kabbalah in Old Yiddish Literature (17th-18th Century)”
Monday, February 1, 2010, 11:00-12:10 PM
Jack Baskin Auditorium, Room 101.
Jean Baumgarten, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in France.