Fellow Seminar Calendar

Spring 2026 Seminar Calendar

Spring term seminars are held in the Kovno-Shavl room at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011, on Wednesdays 10–11:30am, in a hybrid format. RSVP is required. Please email fellowships@cjh.org to register and to receive the paper that will be discussed and the ZOOM link. Seminars are open to the academic public and other invited guests.

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe

February 19, 2026 at 6:30pm

Book Talk with Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) and Debra Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University)
Co-sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin

Reserve Tickets

Localizing the “Jewish Question“: Middle Eastern Intellectuals, Zionist Politics, and Jewish Diaspora before 1948

February 25, 2026

Fellow: Maytal Mark (NYU | CJH)
Respondent: Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)

Chicago, 1910s-30s: The Encounter between Chinese Restaurateurs and American Jewish Customers

March 4, 2026

Fellow: Shiyong Lu (NYU | CJH)
Respondent: Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan)

Antisemitism and Les Illustrés in Belle-Époque France: The Case of the Frères Offenstadt

March 18, 2026

Fellow: Andrew Kotick (Pratt Institute | CJH)
Respondent: Eddy Portnoy (YIVO)

Negating Self, Negating Diaspora: Jewish Liminality and Western Conformity in the Zionist Movement

March 25, 2026

Fellow: Andrew Shapiro (CUNY)
Respondent: Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)

Laughing at the Dreyfus Affair: Cartoon Antisemitism and the Politics of Ridicule

March 25, 2026 at 7pm

Evening Lecture with Andrew Kotick (Pratt Institute | CJH)
Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Institute of French Studies at NYU

Holocaust and Jewish Education: An Educational Initiative Design for the Center for Jewish History

April 15, 2026

Fellow: Amanda Lanceter (Claims Conference | Gratz College)

From Pious Asceticism to Chauvinistic Nationalism: The Rise of Right-Wing Politics in the Haredi Diaspora

April 22, 2026

Fellow: Martin Saps (King’s College London | CJH)
Respondent: Shaul Magid (Harvard University)

Jewish Exile Stories from Shanghai to Sosúa

April 29, 2026

CJH Visiting Scholar: Sarah Nimführ (University of Arts Linz)
Respondent: Arleen Ionescu (West University of Timișoara)

Moses Mendelssohn's Dialectical Enlightenment: The Problem of Luxury in Ethics and Politics

May 6, 2026

Fellow: Jonathan Green (NYU | CJH)
Respondent: David Sorkin (Yale University)

Saving Yourself by Saving Others – The Rescue Activities of Jewish Women in France

May 13, 2026

Fellow: Lilly Maier (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Respondent: Ashley Valanzola (Middle Tennessee State University)