Performing Disability in Israel

Disability On and Off-Stage in Israel and the US: Blind Women’s Gender Performance and Integrated Dance
 
Explore the real-life experiences and artistic performances of people living with disability in Israel — a two-part series held in conjunction with Professor Ilana Szobel’s course, Disability Cultures: Art, Film, and Literature of People with Disabilities, at Brandeis University.
 

Gili Hammer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of “Blindness through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body.”
 
The series concludes on Thursday, April 22, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT with Sunny Yudkoff’s lecture, “In the Kingdom of Fever: Tradition, Tuberculosis, and the Creation of Yiddish Poetry.” 
 
Free and open to all. Registration required. Learn more: https://www.brandeis.edu/israel-center/events/index.html#disability

Presented by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and cosponsored by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute; the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies; the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy; and the Program in Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP), all housed at Brandeis University.