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"the people of the book," Jews have always valued text and learning. But did you know that Jews were also innovators in the design and typography of all kinds of printed materials?

In the 17th century, Jews in Florence’s tiny ghetto struggled to earn a living by any means possible, including loan-sharking, rag-picking, and second-hand dealing. They were often viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers.

Two experts on East German cinema, Barton Byg and Ralf Schenk, will discuss the international dimensions of German Democratic Republic filmmaking during the Cold War.

Over the last three centuries, thinkers from Spinoza to Einstein have established a distinctive tradition of Jewish secular thought. Yet secularism did not necessarily mean a total rupture from Jewish religious tradition. Instead, argues Dr.

 Join Spertus and Jewish B2B Networking for an evening celebrating entrepreneurship, small business, and relationship building.

Hear historian Dr. Daniel Greene speak about his new book, The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism. In it, he traces the emergence of cultural pluralism to a group of Jewish college students and intellectuals who faced challenges as they sought to integrate themselves into the early 20th-century American academic and literary circles.

A number of prominent composers had their lives cut short by the Nazis. Among them was Vicktor Ullmann, a distinguished Czech composer, conductor, and pianist of Jewish heritage whose work has rarely been performed since his death.