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The Thomas and Diann Mann Israel Series - CANCELLED

photo of Israelis, Mahane Yehuda market, Israel
March 1, 2022
11:10AM - 12:45PM
Zoom event

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Add to Calendar 2022-03-01 11:10:00 2022-03-01 12:45:00 The Thomas and Diann Mann Israel Series - CANCELLED The Thomas and Diann Mann Israel Series: Race and Ethnicity in Israel Blackness in Israel CANCELLED DUE TO COVID Gabriella Djerrahian, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University Uri Dorchin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College in Zefat, Israel This talk will explore contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America.  Modern forms of blackness include boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and boundary-re-making in contemporary Israel, underscoring the deep historical roots of contemporary understandings of race, blackness, and Jewishness. While race has been discussed as it pertains to Judaism at large, and Israeli society in particular, blackness as a conceptual tool divorced from individual characteristics, skin tone and even music has yet to be explored.  Email fireman.2@osu.edu for the zoom link. Supported by the Thomas and Diann Mann Israel program fund. (photo: Mahane Yehuda market in Israel. Credit: My Jewish Learning) Zoom event Melton Center for Jewish Studies asc-meltoncenter@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Thomas and Diann Mann Israel Series: Race and Ethnicity in Israel

Blackness in Israel

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID

Gabriella Djerrahian, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University

Uri Dorchin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College in Zefat, Israel

This talk will explore contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America.  Modern forms of blackness include boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and boundary-re-making in contemporary Israel, underscoring the deep historical roots of contemporary understandings of race, blackness, and Jewishness.

While race has been discussed as it pertains to Judaism at large, and Israeli society in particular, blackness as a conceptual tool divorced from individual characteristics, skin tone and even music has yet to be explored. 

Email fireman.2@osu.edu for the zoom link.

Supported by the Thomas and Diann Mann Israel program fund.

(photo: Mahane Yehuda market in Israel. Credit: My Jewish Learning)