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Tag: Center for Jewish Studies
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Nation & World
Tony Kushner on Jewishness, Spielberg, ‘unsafe’ art
Pulitzer-winning playwright reflects on roots, “unsafe” art, working with Spielberg.
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Nation & World
A singular poet
Creative process and Jewish tradition were central to a lively conversation as Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück delivered the Center for Jewish Studies’ annual Doft Lecture.
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‘Black & Jewish Talk Series’ starts with ‘A Conversation’
The Center for Jewish Studies and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research debut their “Black & Jewish Talk Series” with “A Conversation.”
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Nation & World
Fathers, killers, God, and ‘Maus’
“Maus” author Art Spiegelman discussed art, existence, and Jewish identity during a visit to Harvard.
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Nation & World
Engaging with Arendt
Four lectures focusing on Hannah Arendt, the political theorist best known for coining the phrase “the banality of evil” when she wrote about the trial of Nazi architect Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker in the early ’60s, will be held March 9 and 30 and April 6 and 20 at the Minda de Gunzburg…
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Lost in translation
Israeli author David Grossman spoke Tuesday about becoming immersed in his writing and his characters during a packed talk in the Science Center.
