# Event Details - **Event Name**: "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality" - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Nov, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Wed, 04 Nov, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: Join IIJS Prof. Seth Schwartz for a discussion of his forthcoming book, "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality."About this EventWednesday, November 4, at noon | 617 Kent Hall.The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality, explores the benefits and pitfalls of writing about an archaeologically rich but literarily poor topic. The results of this inquiry are strongly revisionist: The Jews in ancient Asia Minor, or Anatolia, are shown to have been far from having achieved a perfect balance between integration in their host cities and self-preservation that scholars have long ascribed to them. Rather, the Jews experienced conflict and poverty, struggling to carve out a place for themselves in the Greek cities of Asia. Jewish communal institutions played little role before Late Antiquity, but Jews sometimes achieved a diffuse sense of community through trade guild membership and participation in theatrical events. Surprisingly, many of them expressed pride in their Roman identity but rarely, or never, their local civic identity. Even during the Jews’ brief period of prosperity and heightened civic engagement, c. 400 CE, their Jewish lives were characterized by strong localism, featuring many elements that distinguish the Jews of Asia sharply from those elsewhere in the Roman Empire.Seth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Classics at Columbia University, where he also chairs the Graduate Program in Classical Studies. He received his PhD in History at Columbia in 1985. Before returning to Columbia in 2009, Schwartz taught at Cornell, the University of Rhode Island and the Jewish Theological Seminary, had research fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Harvard Society of Fellows and King’s College Cambridge. He wrote Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987)(with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron and Klaas Worp), Josephus and Judaean Politics (Leiden: Brill, 1990), Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), and The Ancient Jews From Alexander to Muhammad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).*Guests must register by Monday, November 2, to be approved for campus access; unregistered guests will not be permitted on campus. Each guest must register individually using a unique email address.Supported by the generosity of the Kaye and Radov families.While all IIJS events are free and open to the public, we do encourage a suggested donation of $10. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/the-jews-of-asia-minor-214-bce-to-500-ce-text-and-materiality/100001989871140146 - **Event Categories**: nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University - **lat**: 40.8072153 - **long**: -73.9614057 - **full address**: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, 617 Kent Hall, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality" - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/991941514e6b78fabf90c634cc8701e0cb0c57fcbf524c8c9d1e85f99ebcb8cf-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1779226300 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality" being held? - **A:** "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality" takes place on Wed, 04 Nov, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Wed, 04 Nov, 2026 at 01:00 pm at Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, 617 Kent Hall, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality"? - **A:** "The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality" is organized by The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": ""The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality"", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/991941514e6b78fabf90c634cc8701e0cb0c57fcbf524c8c9d1e85f99ebcb8cf-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1779226300", "startDate": "2026-11-04T12:00:00-05:00", "endDate": "2026-11-04T13:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/the-jews-of-asia-minor-214-bce-to-500-ce-text-and-materiality/100001989871140146", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "617 Kent Hall", "postalCode": "10027", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.8072153", "longitude": "-73.9614057" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join IIJS Prof. Seth Schwartz for a discussion of his forthcoming book, \"The Jews of Asia Minor, 214 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality.\"", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-05-19", "availabilityEnds": "2026-11-04T13:00:00-05:00", "validFrom": "2026-05-19", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/the-jews-of-asia-minor-214-bce-to-500-ce-text-and-materiality/100001989871140146" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-05-19", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-05-19", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/the-jews-of-asia-minor-214-bce-to-500-ce-text-and-materiality/100001989871140146", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-institute-for-israel-and-jewish-studies-at-columbia-university/22511579", "description": "The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies – Columbia University’s center for the academic study and discussion of Jewish life, history, and culture – has long been a national and international leader in the field. 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