The French Resistance and the Persecution of the Jews during WWII princeton.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from princeton.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture with Iuliia Skubytska on Thursday, February 22. War brings loss. Loss of people, loss of heritage, loss of memory. In this context, preservation becomes an act of resistance to pervasive and overwhelming destruction. It also becomes an act of documenting a new reality, the one that emerges as the war profoundly transforms people’s lives, landscapes, water, air, and soil. In her lecture, Dr. Iuliia Skubytska will analyze multiple initiatives led by journalists, civil society activists, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians that aim to preserve evidence about the Russian aggression against Ukraine. She will also reflect on the positionality and ethics of a researcher who creates an archive at the time when security concerns intersect with the principles of academic freedom and the aspirations of best practices regarding the practicalities of recording oral history testimonies during the
Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Tuesday, December 5. Abstract According to the first-century historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem because she loved the Jewish God and wished to worship in the temple. Helena became a beloved patron of Jerusalem, feeding its residents during famine and erecting monumental buildings, including a palace and a mausoleum. Late antique rabbinic and Christian writings continued to tell her story. But by the medieval period, she was remembered as queen of Jerusalem during the life of Jesus and the adjudicator between Judaism and Christianity. How did Helena of Adiabene become queen of Jerusalem – and why? This talk will explore the complex interplay of texts, landscape, and embodied practices in the transmission of traditions, the construction of memory, and interreligious relations and polemics. Open to the public. Refr
Princeton provides Ukrainian and Russian scholars two years of protection dailyprincetonian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyprincetonian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The collection includes more than 2,700 original books, atlases, pamphlets, newspapers and magazines relating to human and political rights, liberty, and independence around the time of the American Revolution.