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Lifelong learning | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? Museum of Jewish Heritage. By Jenna Weissman Joselit on June 1st, 2015. I’m often stimulated and provoked, engaged and engrossed. On occasion, I’m even moved. Rarely, though, am I inspired. Usually, it takes a lot to get those juices going, but within minutes of meeting Ruth Adler Schnee last week, inspired, I was. Ruth Adler Schnee. Lamplights/Risd.edu. 8221; Several of her eye-popping textiles are on display. You might think that t...
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Ma nishma? | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? By Jenna Weissman Joselit on May 10th, 2015. Summer camp has inspired a spate of feature films, a series of exhibitions and any number of spoofs. Most recently, it gave rise to a convening at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. And held forth we did, straining to keep our nostalgia for camp from overwhelming our critical insights. Many of us, it turned out, had a direct and personal connecti...
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fashion | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? Posts from the ‘fashion’ Category. Through the looking glass, darkly on. August 16th, 2015. September 14th, 2014. This blog is hosted by the Judaic Studies Program. At The George Washington University. Jenna Weissman Joselit can be reached at joselit@gwu.edu. Association for Jewish Studies. European Association for Jewish Studies. Hebraic Section – LOC. I Edward Kiev Judaica Collection. Jewish Review of Books. The mother of invention.
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Embedded | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? By Jenna Weissman Joselit on April 19th, 2015. Stones abound in Manhattan’s Riverside Park, but none bear the weight of history quite like the one known as. The stone. Planted in the landscape in 1947, it marked the future home of a monument to the six million Jews who had perished in what came to be known as the Holocaust. Riverside Park Holocaust memorial site/Bosc d’Anjou. Stalled by both financial and aesthetic challenges, the mo...
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food | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? Posts from the ‘food’ Category. September 7th, 2015. March 29th, 2015. Dining out on nostalgia on. March 1st, 2015. January 25th, 2015. September 1st, 2014. June 29th, 2014. June 8th, 2014. April 20th, 2014. Let all who are hungry, come and eat on. April 13th, 2014. Calling all culture mavens on. November 12th, 2013. Laquo; Older Entries. This blog is hosted by the Judaic Studies Program. At The George Washington University.
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Welcome! | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? I hope you enjoyed learning about GW’s brand new MA in Jewish Cultural Arts and had a good chuckle or two along the way. Drawing on new media like Xtranormal as well as on the treasures of yesteryear, the MA offers a unique and spirited approach to Jewish culture. Details await at the Masters of Arts in Jewish Cultural Arts program website. You can also learn more here. Or read this blog post. Click here to cancel reply.
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Fast track | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? By Jenna Weissman Joselit on June 15th, 2015. Library of Congress at night. Early 1900s postcard. Flickr/StreetsofWashington. Last week’s 15th anniversary celebration of the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center — ScholarFest LOC. From → Uncategorized. Click here to cancel reply. You must be logged in. To post a comment. This blog is hosted by the Judaic Studies Program. At The George Washington University. Jewish Review of Books.
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Lingo | From Under the Fig Tree
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From Under the Fig Tree. Gleanings of Jewish culture. What’s in a name? By Jenna Weissman Joselit on August 2nd, 2015. Every field has its own distinctive protocols, rituals and even language. In mine, words such as ‘interdisciplinarity’ and ‘historicity’ are tossed about with abandon, much to everyone else’s confusion. Household words, they ain’t. These terms and dozens of others just like them are comprehensible only to the cognoscenti. And this: When nurses get together to discuss a patient’s lot, the...
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December | 2009 | Musica Judaica Online Reviews
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Musica Judaica Online Reviews. Scholarly Discussions of Books, Media, and Group Projects on Music in Jewish Life. December 17, 2009. Please come join us at our new site: http:/ mjoreviews.wordpress.com. You are currently browsing the Musica Judaica Online Reviews. Blog archives for December, 2009. Musica Judaica Online Reviews. The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Musica Judaica Online Reviews. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
