History and Literature in the Study of the Bible
Sunday, January 24, 2010, 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Jewish Community Federation, San Francisco
The Bay Area Academic Consortium invites you to participate in its new winter program, History and Literature in the Study of the Bible, for faculty and graduate students in Jewish Studies.
Nathaniel Deutsch: “The Right to Remain: Jewish Geographies in Imperial Russia”
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
12:00-1:00 PM, Humanities 210
Unlike others who became a part of the Russian Empire as a result of the partitions of Poland, Jews were not viewed as native to the newly colonized territories.
Neil Brenner: “The Camp in the Desert: Gentrification and Hasidic Williamsburg”
Thursday, February 4, 4:00-5:45 PM
Humanities 1, Room 545.
Please join Nathaniel Deutsch, Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Neil Brenner, Professor of Sociology at New York University, for a public dialogue on the impact of gentrification on the Hasidic enclave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.