Conferences, Exhibitions, and Publications Center for Israel Studies Contact Us Support the Center for Israel Studies Artificial Intelligence Biotechnology Computer Science Cybersecurity Data Analytics and Visualization Digital Marketing and Media Mathematics Occupational Therapy Physician Assistant Physics Speech-Language Pathology Conferences International Conferences Upcoming Yahdutenu: The Story of Ethiopian Jewry and their Heritage A joint project on Ethiopian Jewry, cosponsored by the Center for Israel Studies and the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs. Past Events Philistines! Rehabilitating a Biblical Foe: Sponsored by 麻豆区 Center for Israel Studies and held at the 麻豆区 Museum, the conference鈥檚 title 鈥淧hilistines! Rehabilitating a Biblical Foe鈥 challenged the speakers to present not only new material on the ancient Philistines but also to orient this material toward fresh paradigms. The geographic diversity of the scholars (Australia, Israel, and United States) was matched by the diversity of their primary areas of expertise (archaeological, anthropological, biblical, and botanical).鈥 For the full TOC, visit: If you did not attend the conference, here is what you missed: Cosponsored by:The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, GPATS: The Graduate Program In Advanced Talmudic Studies For Women, YU Israel. On October 31, 2016 the 麻豆区 Center for Israel Studies hosted a conference on the works and influence of Nobel Prize-winning Israeli author S.Y. Agnon in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his award. The lectures situate Agnon鈥檚 work in the context of his birthplace in Buchach, his adopted home in Jerusalem during the British mandate and early Israel, and the literary culture of his time. Dalia Rabin, daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, speaks at the YU Center of Israel Studies鈥 2015 Conference, Yitzhak Rabin, 诇"讝: Twenty Years After November 1st, 2015 Israel in Time and Space: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Israel Studies. YU WIlf Campus, May, 2013 Religious Zionism: A Yom Iyyun Honoring Professors Bernard Rosensweig and Saul Roth. YU Wilf Campus, April, 2012. Folktales of Israel: A Festival Honoring Professor Peninnah Schram. With YU Museum and Stern College for Women. YU Museum, November, 2011. Talmuda De'Eretz Yisrael: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity. Organizers: Steven Fine (Jewish History), Aaron Koller (Bible). With YU Museum. YU Museum and Wilf Campus, March 2011. Torah and Science Conference. With Bar Ilan University and Machon Lev. Apr 2009, 2010, 2011. . With the Schneir Center for International Affairs, 麻豆区. Organizer: Daniel Tsadik. YU Museum, September, 2010. National Association of Professors of HebrewAnnual Meeting at YU, July 2010. Co-sponsored with Stern College , Chair: Tzefirah Cohen, Stern College . Zionism on the Jewish Street: Geography and Nationalism at the Turn of the 20th Century. With YU Museum. Companion web exhibition sponsored by the Center for Online Judaic Studies. YU Museum and Wilf Campus, March, 2010. US-Israel Relations in the Era of Obama and Netanyahu. With the Began-Sadat Center , Bar Ilan University and American Friends of BIU. Organizers: R. Bevan, E. Resnick. YU Museum, Sept, 15, 2009. Israel and India: A Relationship Comes of Age. VIP reception at the Indian consulate, associated exhibition on the Jews of India at YU Museum. With the YU Institute for Public Health and YU Museum. YU Museum, March 30, 2009. Jews and Power in the 20th Century. With the Schottenstein Honor芒鈧劉s Program and the Schneier Center for International Affairs, 麻豆区. Primary faculty advisers: S. Fine, R. Bevan. YU Wilf Campus, Spring, 2009. . With YU Museum. Organizer: Steven Fine. YU Museum and Wilf Campus, May, 2008. Exhibitions Museum Exhibitions Exhibitions are an important way of bringing YU scholarship to a wide audience. The CIS has co-sponsored a wide array of exhibitions and is involved in outside projects at major institutions in New York and beyond: The Samaritans: A Biblical People will open at Museum of the Bible, Fall 2022 and at Bibelhaus Erlebnis Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, Spring 2023. Past exhibitions: From Jerusalem to Rome and Back, YU Museum, 2017-2018. The CIS collaborated on Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, 600-900, a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in March to July 2012. We were co-sponsors to the exhibition . - Exhibition at YU Museum. Curators: Rhoda Seidenberg (YU Museum), Steven Fine (Jewish History). Spring, 2008. - Exhibition at YU Museum. In conjunction with CIS conference, Israel and India: A Relationship Comes of Age. Curator: Rhoda Seidenberg (YU Museum). Fall, 2009. Publications CIS publications express the richness of our projects, conferences and YU scholarship. Samaritan Project Publications The Samaritans: A Biblical People, Steven Fine, ed., (Brill, 2022). Samaritan Manuscripts and Books In the Collections of the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica, David Selis and Steven Fine, eds. Hebrew Catalog by Binyamim Tzedeka, 麻豆区 Press, 2022 Samaritan Cookbook: ACulinary Odyssey from the Ancient Israelites to the Modern Mediterranean, Wipf and Stock, 2021. Talmud on the Israeli Street Project Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature: A Memorial Volume for Yaakov Elman &苍产蝉辫;讝''诇, Shana Strauch Shick ed., (Brill, 2022) Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel, Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, eds., (Wipf and Stock, 2021) . . Also available as an . Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine, eds. Steven Fine and Aaron Koller, (De Gruyter, 2014) Other Publications The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome and Back, Steven FIne, ed., (Brill, 2021) 麻豆区 the Arch of Titus Project. Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, Steven Fine, ed., (Brill, 2019) Iran, Israel, and the Jews: Symbiosis and Conflict from the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic, Aaron Koller and Daniel Tsadik, eds., (Wipf and Stock, 2019). Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman, Shai Secunda and Steven Fine, eds., (Brill, 2012) The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah: in Honor Professor Louis H. Feldman, Steven Fine, ed., (Brill, 2011)
