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 Joshua Holo, Ph.D., Director of the Louchheim School of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish History at HUC-JIR, to speak on Jews and the Ghetto in Venice at the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute "Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations" scheduled for Venice, Italy from June 16-July 18. Dr. Joshua Holo will participate in a five-week, inter-disciplinary institute in Venice, Italy, exploring the cultural, intellectual, and historic experience of Venetian Jewry, organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The primary focus will be the Ghetto of Venice, which gave its name to all such subsequent ethnic enclosures. He will explore the history of the Ghetto of Venice as a physical environment, text, and symbolic site. Together, the participants will examine various artistic materials representing Italian and Venetian Jewish life, including literary, artistic, and dramatic works. The Institute will begin with the Renaissance, while emphasizing the modern experience of Venetian Jewry, a paradigmatic Italian Jewish community. The program is designed to benefit scholars in various fields, including European culture, literature, art, and history, Holocaust studies, Italian studies, and Jewish studies. Dr. Holo's studies focus on Medieval Jews of the Mediterranean, particularly in the Christian realm. Prior to his role at HUC-JIR, he served as Assistant Professor of Jewish History at Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies of the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, CA. He is currently completing his first book, Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. For more information, visit http://jewishstudies.ucsc.edu/NEH Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
