Celebrating the
Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women!
Global Day of Learning
Sunday, June 27 and Monday, June 28

Join JWA as we celebrate the launch of the expanded and renamed Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Six webinars presented by expert scholars will showcase the evolution of the Encyclopedia and provide a taste of the new content. Register once and attend as many sessions as you’d like.

Suggested $18 donation for those able to contribute.
Session Details

June 27, 12:00 p.m. ET
Panel discussion: The (R)evolution and Impact of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, 1995-2021, with Deborah Dash Moore, David Ellenson, Rachel Harris, Alma Heckman, and Jennifer Sartori, moderated by Judith Rosenbaum

June 27 at 2:00 p.m. ET
Mizrahi Feminism: Major Debates, with Henriette Dahan Kalev, professor emerita at Ben Gurion University

June 27 at 4:00 p.m. ET
Drawing Their Lives: Jewish Women & Comics, with Tahneer Oksman, writer, teacher, and scholar of literature and visual culture

June 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET
The Journeys of Cuban-Jewish Women, with Ruth Behar, the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and the author of several books, including An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba and the novel Letters from Cuba

June 28, 10:00 a.m. ET
Queer Dreams of Jewish Women's Poetry, with Zohar Weiman-Kelman, senior lecturer at Ben Gurion University's Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and author of Queer Expectations: A Geneaolgy of Jewish Women's Poetry

June 28, 12:00 p.m. ET
Reflections of a Feminist Pioneer in Israel: a conversation with Alice Shalvi, Israeli feminist activist, educator, and scholar
Image (clockwise from left): Ruth Behar; Emma Lazarus; Ida Maze (C) with fellow Yiddish writers Kadya Molodowsky (L) and Rokhl Korn (R); Adrienne Rich; Irena Klepfisz (photograph by Robert Giard)
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