It’s been a long and busy academic year for UMaine Judaic Studies! In 2022-2023 we hosted seven public events. September 15th 2022, Dutch historian David Barnouw spoke on “Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Who Owns her Legacy?” December 4th, 2022, Vicki Summers performed her one-woman play “Bella, An Immigrant’s Tale” about the life of her […]
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On April 25th UMaine Judaic Studies was honored to host Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, Executive Director of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life, spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Maine, and Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond chair in Jewish Studies at Colby Colby. Rabbi Isaacs spoke to a combined in-person and online audience of over […]
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On April 17th we marked Yom HaShoah with a public lecture by Professor Anne Knowles on “Landscapes of Remembrance.” There are now thousands of Holocaust memorials around the world, from the vast grounds of former concentration camps to the palm-size “stumbling stones” that mark where individuals last lived before they were deported or killed. This […]
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Rabbi Beth Lieberman takes us on a journey through the history of Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible, offers a glimpse into the translation process for the forthcoming JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition, and explores its game-changing potential for the next generation. Recorded February 28, 2023. Rabbi Beth Lieberman served as literary editor and a revising […]
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Playwright and actress Vicki Summers kept the audience hanging on her every word as her grandmother in “Bella, An Immigrant’s Tale” on the evening of Sunday, December 4th, 2022 in Minsky Recital Hall. 50+ joined the audience from across the greater Bangor area and another 24 watched a live-stream. “Bella,” tells the fascinating story of […]
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Hillel co-president and Judaic Studies Advisory Committee member Rachel Pellis and Judaic Studies Coordinator Derek A. Michaud are quoted in an article from the Bangor Daily News about “Bella, An Immigrant’s Tale,” on December 2nd, 2022. Judy Harrison, “A Portland actress turned her grandmother’s escape from Russia into a one-woman show,” Bangor Daily News, December […]
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JST 205-0001 – Jewish History and Antisemitism: From Antiquity to the Founding of the State of Israel – Merrill Hall 335, 2:00-3:15 PM, TTh This course is a history of antisemitism, describing its manifestations from pre-Christian Alexandria to the founding of the State of Israel. Students will be exposed to several academic and popular theories […]
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Rabbi William Siemers met his colleague, Rabbi Darah Lerner, when he arrived in Bangor nearly eight years ago, but it took another six months before he understood what an exalted position she held in the community. His teenage daughter came home from school and told him that her social studies teacher was disappointed that she […]
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On Yom HaShoah Prof. Phillip Silver gave a presentation on his research rescuing music suppressed by the Nazis with a performance by the Silver Duo (Phillip and Noreen Silver), live in Minsky Recital Hall before an audience of 74 and was streamed by another 80+ on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Professor Silver discussed the life and […]
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