BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.12//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6947@columbiajewish.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T203000 DTSTAMP:20261015T191909Z URL:https://www.columbiajewish.org/events/your-people-shall-be-my-people-c onversion-to-judaism-through-the-centuries/ SUMMARY:Your People Shall Be My People: Conversion to Judaism through the C enturies DESCRIPTION:\n \;\nDr. Miriam Bodian (UTexas at Austin)\nThroughout Jew ish history non-Jews have joined the Jewish people. \;How \;they ’ve done so\, \;why \;they’ve done so\, and how the Jewish com munity has supervised the transition have changed strikingly from one hist orical context to another. Yet some features of conversion to Judaism\, or  \;giyyur \;(in rabbinic terms)\, have been remarkably stable over the long period since rabbinic law became normative throughout the Jewish diaspora. In this talk we’ll look at major milestones in this long hist ory\, from biblical times to the eve of the modern period.\nMiriam Bodian is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin. Her recent book \;Conversion\, in the Rutgers Keywords in Jewish Studies s eries\, examines both conversion \;to \;Judaism and conversion&nbs p\;from \;Judaism over the long sweep of Jewish history. She is the au thor of the prize-winning book \;Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Con versos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam\, and \;Dying in the La w of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World.\n \;\nCLICK HERE to register to receive Zoom link. Link will be shared a few days befo re the program.\n\nCLICK HERE to see all of the sessions in our Jewish Sch olar Series. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.columbiajewish.org/wp-content/upload s/2026/10/JewishScholarSeries27_800x533.png CATEGORIES:Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR