Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

Hosted by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, this event will be led by Cassandra Veney, executive director of Case Western Reserve University’s Humanities in Leadership Learning Series. The conversation will center on a discussion of Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan. This endearing debut novel...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host an upcoming remote course titled “Jewish American Theatre: Immigration to Integration” in July. This course explores how Jewish theater went from a niche immigrant pastime to one of the dominant threads of modern American theater. In this course, part...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program offers a variety of digital skills boot camps in partnership with edX to help jumpstart or advance your career. These 24-week boot camps offer a fast-paced immersive curriculum to build proficiency in highly sought after skills. Upcoming boot camps include: F...

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host its annual Week of Learning May 21–25 with special guest Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Associate Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University and associate professor in the Goldstein-Goren Department o...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a Nobel Laureates Lecture Series to highlight Nobel Prize winners from 2022. During this series, which will be held in May and June, leading experts in related fields will present an overview of the Nobel Laureate, their research, the significance of t...

The 21st century understanding of Pan-Africanism remains exclusively tied to the African continent, specifically leaving out Afro-diasporic subjects, especially in Europe. Today, a new movement of Black European youths are fighting against racial discrimination and for an Afro-European political ide...

One month after the Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 record Rapper’s Delight introduced hip-hop to a national audience, three New York Jewish men under the moniker Steve Gordon & The Kosher Five recorded the first rap parody record, a Yiddish-accented humorous skit full of American Jewish cultural tropes set t...

Canadian-Israeli journalist and author Matti Friedman will join Case Western Reserve University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning for an upcoming in-person lecture titled, “Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.” Friedman is a former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for The New York Times op...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program is offering a series of programs designed to complement the “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” exhibition on display at Cleveland Museum of Art through May 14. The following programs will be offered: A remote course titled “Passion, Murder and...

Seeking refuge from the horrors of the Holocaust, some survivors rebuilt their lives in Chile, a corner of the world far from the scenes of genocide and war. Today, only a few hundred remain; those who came to Chile as young children or adolescents are now between 75 and 105 years old. Samuel Shats’...