We hope you will join us next week and at subsequent seminar meetings this year. Please note the following fall dates:

• Tuesday, September 12, 4:00 p.m.

Elly Moseson (Boston University)

“Hasidic Literature: A Historical and Definitional Exploration”

Respondent: Shaul Magid (Indiana University)

• Thursday, October 19, 4:00 p.m.

Francesca Bregoli (Queens College, CUNY)

“Intra-Cultural Ties and Religion in a Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Commercial Network (1776-1790)”

• Thursday, November 9, 4:00 p.m.

Florence Largilliere (Queen Mary, University of London)

“Patriotic Self-Portraits: Letters of French and Italian Jewish Veterans Faced With Racial Laws”

Respondent: Philipp Nielsen (Sarah Lawrence College)

• Thursday, December 7, 4:00 p.m.

David Engel (NYU)

“An Introduction to the Problem of Security in Jewish History”