Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies

Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies The Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

03/25/2026
Join Naomi Seidman for a lecture on how Freud and psychoanalysis captured the imagination of Eastern European Jewish rea...
03/24/2026

Join Naomi Seidman for a lecture on how Freud and psychoanalysis captured the imagination of Eastern European Jewish readers, sparking a “Freud craze” across the Yiddish press of the interwar years. Free and open to the public, with in‑person and Zoom options.

🗓️ March 24
🕓 4:00–5:30 PM
📍 Memorial Union, Old Madison Room
💻 Click the link to register for the Zoom link

Join Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) for a lecture exploring the “Freud craze” in the Yiddish press of the interwar period. Although Karl Kraus famously quipped that psychoanalysis was “the disease of assimilated Jews,” Eastern …

Join us on March 24 for the 2026 Cytron Lecture with Professor Naomi Seidman! The lecture will be held at Memorial Union...
03/09/2026

Join us on March 24 for the 2026 Cytron Lecture with Professor Naomi Seidman!
The lecture will be held at Memorial Union, but will also be available on Zoom.

More information and zoom link available here:
cjs.wisc.edu/event/cytron26/

Join us for a night of music with singer Laura Elkeslassy as she performs alongside instrumentalists Ira Khonen Temple (...
03/04/2026

Join us for a night of music with singer Laura Elkeslassy as she performs alongside instrumentalists Ira Khonen Temple (keys), Eylem Basaldi (violin), Nizar Dahmani (percussion), Rachid Halihal (oud), and Ran Livneh (bass)

Free and Open to the Public!

More information: https://conney.cjs.wisc.edu/event/divas-in-exile/

Don't miss our first event of the semester! Presented by the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and the Max Kade Inst...
01/21/2026

Don't miss our first event of the semester! Presented by the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies, this event will feature a panel of experts on Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch who will read selected poems and provide translations and commentary. No knowledge of either language is required, and all are welcome!

More information here: https://mayrent.wisc.edu/event/language-and-place/

New course offering this spring with Prof. Nina Caputo!
11/18/2025

New course offering this spring with Prof. Nina Caputo!

Don't miss the 2025 Stanley I. Kutler Lectures in American Jewish History, featuring two lectures with Prof. William Bru...
11/05/2025

Don't miss the 2025 Stanley I. Kutler Lectures in American Jewish History, featuring two lectures with Prof. William Brustein of West Virginia University. Prof. Brustein will give two lectures on the topic of antisemitism.

Both lectures will be livestreamed if you're unable to join us in person.

More info here: https://cjs.wisc.edu/event/kutler2025/

11/04/2025

Join us in a week on Tuesday, November 11th at 7 pm to hear from Tom Jacobson, who became a civil rights attorney and advocate after escaping the Holocaust. This event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Come hear about Jacobson’s legacy, work, and experiences 💭

Register at the 🔗 in our bio! Any questions? Direct them to Aaron Seligman at [email protected].

11/03/2025

Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron Still Lives: Jewish Photography in N**i Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:00 CST, ZOOM Register for Zoom webinar   Sponsored by: George …

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