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Haredi Women in the Arts in the Digital Age: Contradictions and Paradoxes of a 21st-Century Phenomenon – Jessica Roda (UC Los Angeles)

Have you had a glimpse of the mesmerizing music videos of ultra-Orthodox women celebrities, Bracha Jaffe and Devorah Schwartz, captivating over half a million viewers on YouTube, or the myriad of films and Yiddish plays crafted by Hasidic girls in Montreal and New York?

Modern Permutations of an Ancient Antisemitic Myth: The Blood Libel during the Holocaust (UC Berkeley)

This talk traces the endurance and permutation of the traditional ritual murder accusation against Jews during World War II, in particular in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union.

As the Dust of Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (UC San Diego)