BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:635@amyisrael.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260609T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260609T193000 DTSTAMP:20260602T183254Z URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/a-world-written-in-judeo-arabic-from- saadias-tafsir-to-al-andalus/ SUMMARY:A World Written in Judeo-Arabic: From Sa’adia’s Tafsir to al-An dalus DESCRIPTION:Join Howard Schickler and Am Yisrael for a series taught by Pro fessor Miriam Goldstein. On June 9th\, the series will premiere with \ ; \;A World Written in Judeo-Arabic: From Sa’adia’s Tafsir to al-A ndalus\, \;followed by Lecture II: \;Voices for Daily Life\, and L ecture III: \;The Lady and Her Handmaiden. \;\n\nJoin the Zoom Mee ting with this link!\n\nIf you are interested in this series\, please let Howard know by email (hschickler@sbcglobal.net). This will allow Howard to share any related materials he finds. \; The lectures are complete by themselves\, so reading any such materials is not necessary.\n\nProfessor Miriam Goldstein is Professor of Arabic at the Department of Arabic Langu age and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where she \ ;researches and teaches the cultural\, intellectual\, and literary history of the Jews in the Mediterranean and Near East\, on the basis of Judeo-Ar abic\, Arabic\, and Hebrew texts. She holds \;degrees from Harvard Col lege (A.B.\, Near Eastern Literatures and Civilizations) and the Universit y of Cambridge (M.Phil\, Oriental Studies) as well as a PhD from the Hebre w University of Jerusalem. Her \; current research focuses on the Kara ite scholar Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī \; in his rich and cosmopolitan co ntext of tenth-century Baghdad\, as well as on the long and colorful histo ry of \;Toledot Yeshu\, a counter-historical narrative composed by Jew s in Late Antiquity and transmitted until the present. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.amyisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/202 6/06/26f6aa22-31d9-4edb-85e3-e19a04082c31.png CATEGORIES:Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR