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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 tha
 t are being added to our archive through the Jews of Color: Histories and 
 Futures project\, made possible by funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.
  Please join Ilana Kaufman (the Jews of Color Initiative)\, Marc Dollinger
  (San Francisco State University\, author of Black Power\, Jewish Politics
 : Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s)\, and Bryan K. Roby (University o
 f Michigan\, author of The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten 
 Civil Rights Struggle\, 1948-1966) for a panel discussion about the lives\
 , experiences\, and histories of Jews of color in the United States and Is
 rael.\n\nJudaism is often considered a religion of the mind\, defined by t
 he study and practice of Jewish law\, but it also has rich traditions as a
  religion of the body\, engaging sights\, sounds\, emotions\, and feelings
  of spirituality. The Embodied Judaism Series\, held biannually at the Uni
 versity of Colorado Boulder\, draws on materials housed in the Innovations
  in Jewish Life Collections to explore the role of the body in Jewish life
  through public symposiums\, featuring academic scholars\, prominent pract
 itioners\, and artistic performers\, and multimedia exhibits aimed at acad
 emic and non-academic audiences.\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE ABOUT THIS EMBODIED JU
 DAISM SERIES HERE!\n\n \n\nIlana Kaufman is the Chief Executive Officer of
  the Jews of Color Initiative. Her work sits at the center of Jewish commu
 nity\, racial equity and justice\, and is anchored by the voices and exper
 iences of Jews of Color. Ilana has been featured on NPR’s All Things Con
 sidered and Code Switch\, The Forward\, eJewish Philanthropy\, and her Eli
  Talk\, titled “Who Counts? Race and the Jewish Future\,” has over 45\
 ,000 views. She is passionate about the intersection of Jewish community\,
  racial justice\, Jews of Color\, education\, and philanthropy\, and is a 
 Senior Schusterman Fellow.\n\n \n\nMarc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rh
 oda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at S
 an Francisco State University. Professor Dollinger is author of four schol
 arly books in American Jewish history\, most recently Black Power\, Jewish
  Politics: Reinventing The Alliance in the 1960s. He has published entries
  in the Encyclopedia Judaica\, the Encyclopedia of Antisemitism\, and the 
 Encyclopedia of African American Education. His next project\, an academic
  memoir titled Laundering Antisemitism: Identity Politics\, Ethnic Studies
 \, and the University\, Indiana University Press\, traces his experiences 
 as an identified Jewish (and Zionist) professor in the current political c
 limate. Professor Dollinger has spoken about his research with the CEO of 
 the NAACP on CNN as well as the CNN-podcast “Silence Is Not An Option\,
 ” the NFL Network\, ESPN\, and Germany’s National Public Radio. Just f
 or fun\, Dr. Dollinger helped actress Helen Hunt learn about her Jewish ro
 ots on the prime-time NBC show\, “Who Do You Think You Are?”\n\n \n\nB
 ryan K. Roby is an Associate Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern Histor
 y at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the
  history of race/racism\, Black diasporas\, and Jewish identity in Israel/
 Palestine and North Africa from the nineteenth century to the present. His
  first book\, The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rig
 hts Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press\, 2015)\, provided an ex
 tensive history of social justice protests by Middle Eastern Jews in Israe
 l. 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 
 global twentieth century. The book examines how early 20th century Europea
 n 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 t
 his interpellation within Israel\, Asia\, and Africa. It explores the hist
 ories of the Israeli Black Panthers\, Indian Jewish civil rights activism\
 , and Ethiopian Jewish migration to Israel with the aim of engaging in rep
 arative history.\n\n \n\nThis event is supported by a grant from the Henry
  Luce Foundation.
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LOCATION:Norlin Library\, British & Irish Studies Room (5th Floor)
SUMMARY:Embodied Judaism: Jews of Color in the United States and Israel
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