Jewish Women's Voices panel 10-30-22
Channel: Jewish Language Project
Date: 2022-10-30

Panel organized by the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project:
Women’s Voices: Introducing an Online Exhibit of Jewish Languages

Moderator: Sarah Bunin Benor, Founding Director, Jewish Language Project
Exhibit background: Abby Graham, Curator, Jewish Language Project
Expert panelists: Federica Francesconi, Hilah Kohen, Laura Arnold Leibman, Renée Levine Melammed

This event introduces the Jewish Language Project's new multilingual exhibit, "A Millennium of Jewish Women's Voices." Where can women’s voices be found in historical records? In which languages? What is the process of researching women’s texts? What is the role of the Cairo Geniza in preserving the words of women? What socioeconomic factors and educational practices encouraged or discouraged women’s writing in various periods? In what other ways did women record their words for posterity?
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You can see the exhibit at https://www.jewishlanguages.org/women.

Cosponsors: HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project, HUC-JIR Initiative Grant in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Sally Priesand's Ordination, ASF Institute of Jewish Experience, Cambridge University Library Genizah Research Unit, Jewish Arts Collaborative, Jewish Music Institute, Jewish Music Research Centre, JIMENA, Jewish Women's Archive, Lilith Magazine, Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Mother Tongue, Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, UCBerkeley Magnes Museum, Yeshivat Maharat.