The 14th annual Greenfield Summer Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies will feature as its theme “Subversive Jews: Dissidents and Rebels in the Jewish Tradition.”
The event is scheduled for Sunday, July 7, through Thursday, July 11. All lectures will take place at Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave., in Madison. Specific topics will include:
• “Magic Women: Gender and Magic in Rabbinic Literature.”
• “Encountering Esther: Religion, Imagination, and Political Action.”
• “The Jew as Bandit and Thief: The Case of Abram Tertz.”
• “Politics and Anti-Politics in the Hebrew Bible.”
• “Spinoza the Heretic.”
• “Jewish Madison in the 1960s.”
Presenters will include faculty members of UW-Madison and other institutions of higher learning, plus Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.
Additional programs will include a klezmer concert by the Madison band Yid Vicious, a concert and closing dinner with pianist-composer-author Ben Sidran, and a new event involving the Greenfield Book Club.
The registration deadline is June 7. Online registration is available. For more information, call 608-890-3572 or visit jewishstudies.wisc.edu/greenfield.
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