School of Humanities

Join us for a compelling talk with Professor Christophe Lebold as he discussed his book, Leaonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall. Blending literary analysis, theology, and cultural theory, Prof. Lebold explores the poetic, spiritual, and philosophical dimensions of Cohen’s life and lyrics, tracing how the legendary singer-songwriter navigated faith, doubt, desire, and redemption. Lebold reveals Cohen as a modern-day mystic whose art continues to resonate across generations.

Professor Zeke Levine talks about how Yiddish song has been a fundamental aspect of cultural life within a variety of communities in the United States, from early 20^th century urban immigrant enclaves to Yiddish schools and summer camps. 

The tradition continues today with contemporary klezmer festivals and workshops. This talk introduces audiences to both the history and repertoire of Yiddish song in America and the communities who have fostered Yiddish music from the 1900s until the present day. “Let’s All Sing” was the title of a 1956 songbook, Lomir Ale Zingen.

Laura Cresté is the author of In the Good Years (Four Way Books) and You Should Feel Bad, winner of a 2019 Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. She holds an MFA from New York University and has received fellowships and other support from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Community of Writers, Monson Arts, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Cortland Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in western Massachusetts.

What happens when we place commerce at the center of American Jewish immigration history?

Honoring our students academic achievements.

Mackenzie Polonyi is a Pushcart-Prize-nominated paprika poet, storyteller, educator, and children’s section specialist bookseller.

Register Today! This immersive event features general campus tours, facilities tours, and information sessions with faculty and staff from each of the schools/conservatories, a community fair with student services offices, and optional financial aid and “how to apply” workshops.

Grand Prize Winner at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light offers a sensitive and woman-centered portrait of working-class life in Mumbai. Following the lives of two nurses and a hospital cook, director Payal Kapadia captures the complex mix of constraints, indignities, moments of transcendence and gestures of solidarity that characterize daily life in a South Asian megacity. 

Film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Gaura Narayan.

Dinner is provided by Mumbai Katta Restaurant of Port Chester.

NEVER ALONE tells the gripping story of Jewish refugees seeking safety in Finland during WWII. 

Why did renowned Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski steal tens of thousands of archival documents from France—and why did libraries in the U.S. and Israel accept them? In this gripping talk based on her award-winning book The Archive Thief, Prof. Lisa Leff uncovers the complex story of a scholar whose illicit actions helped preserve a vital Jewish past. Through Szajkowski’s life, Leff explores urgent questions of memory, ownership, and the legacy of Holocaust-era archives.