This talk will explore how Jewish memorial books, yizker-bikher, created by Holocaust survivors or by pre-war Jewish émigrés from Eastern Europe, have engaged and encouraged various forms of mappings. These include both material cartographic images published in memorial books and performative acts of mapping the space of Jewish Eastern Europe undertaken by two groups of

Join us for a lecture from Ilana Pardes, with responses by Karina Hogan and Anne Hoffman. The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. In this insightful volume, Ilana Pardes invites us to marvel at the ever-changing perspectives on Ruth’s foreignness. She explores the rabbis’ lauding of Ruth as