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DESCRIPTION:This event is in person and streaming via Zoom.\n\n \n\nThis ye
 ar’s Embodied Judaism highlights the oral histories of Jews of Color that a
 re being added to our archive through the Jews of Color: Histories and Futu
 res project\, made possible by funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. Plea
 se join Ilana Kaufman (the Jews of Color Initiative)\, Marc Dollinger (San 
 Francisco State University\, author of Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinv
 enting the Alliance in the 1960s)\, and Bryan K. Roby (University of Michig
 an\, author of The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Right
 s Struggle\, 1948-1966) for a panel discussion about the lives\, experience
 s\, and histories of Jews of color in the United States and Israel.\n\nJuda
 ism is often considered a religion of the mind\, defined by the study and p
 ractice of Jewish law\, but it also has rich traditions as a religion of th
 e body\, engaging sights\, sounds\, emotions\, and feelings of spirituality
 . The Embodied Judaism Series\, held biannually at the University of Colora
 do Boulder\, draws on materials housed in the Innovations in Jewish Life Co
 llections to explore the role of the body in Jewish life through public sym
 posiums\, featuring academic scholars\, prominent practitioners\, and artis
 tic performers\, and multimedia exhibits aimed at academic and non-academic
  audiences.\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE ABOUT THIS EMBODIED JUDAISM SERIES HERE!\n\n
  \n\nIlana Kaufman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jews of Color Init
 iative. Her work sits at the center of Jewish community\, racial equity and
  justice\, and is anchored by the voices and experiences of Jews of Color. 
 Ilana has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Code Switch\, Th
 e Forward\, eJewish Philanthropy\, and her Eli Talk\, titled “Who Counts? R
 ace and the Jewish Future\,” has over 45\,000 views. She is passionate abou
 t the intersection of Jewish community\, racial justice\, Jews of Color\, e
 ducation\, and philanthropy\, and is a Senior Schusterman Fellow.\n\n \n\nM
 arc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish S
 tudies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. Profess
 or Dollinger is author of four scholarly books in American Jewish history\,
  most recently Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The Alliance in t
 he 1960s. He has published entries in the Encyclopedia Judaica\, the Encycl
 opedia of Antisemitism\, and the Encyclopedia of African American Education
 . His next project\, an academic memoir titled Laundering Antisemitism: Ide
 ntity Politics\, Ethnic Studies\, and the University\, Indiana University P
 ress\, traces his experiences as an identified Jewish (and Zionist) profess
 or in the current political climate. Professor Dollinger has spoken about h
 is research with the CEO of the NAACP on CNN as well as the CNN-podcast “Si
 lence Is Not An Option\,” the NFL Network\, ESPN\, and Germany’s National P
 ublic Radio. Just for fun\, Dr. Dollinger helped actress Helen Hunt learn a
 bout her Jewish roots on the prime-time NBC show\, “Who Do You Think You Ar
 e?”\n\n \n\nBryan K. Roby is an Associate Professor of Jewish and Middle Ea
 stern History at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His research focus
 es on the history of race/racism\, Black diasporas\, and Jewish identity in
  Israel/Palestine and North Africa from the nineteenth century to the prese
 nt. His first book\, The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil
  Rights Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press\, 2015)\, provided an
  extensive history of social justice protests by Middle Eastern Jews in Isr
 ael. His current book project\, Blackness Refracted: Race and the Making of
  the Jewish Color Line in the Twentieth Century\, traces the migration hist
 ory of racialized peoples and ideas across seas and oceans throughout the g
 lobal twentieth century. The book examines how early 20th century European 
 scholarship constructed Afro-Asian Jews (i.e. Mizrahim) as Black and how\, 
 in the second half of the 20th century\, Afro-Asian Jews responded to this 
 interpellation within Israel\, Asia\, and Africa. It explores the histories
  of the Israeli Black Panthers\, Indian Jewish civil rights activism\, and 
 Ethiopian Jewish migration to Israel with the aim of engaging in reparative
  history.\n\n \n\nThis event is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Fo
 undation.
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LOCATION:Norlin Library\, British & Irish Studies Room (5th Floor)
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SUMMARY:Embodied Judaism: Jews of Color in the United States and Israel
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