Endowed Lectures

The Program in Judaic Studies at the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies would like to thank our donors, whose generosity allows us to provide such a variety of distinguished speakers to our students, faculty, and the Princeton community.

Biderman Lectures

Year

Speaker & Lecture Title

2019 James Loeffler, “Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in Historical Perspective” 2018 Laura Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: How One Early American Jewish Family Changed Their Race"

 

Carolyn L. Drucker ’80 Memorial Lecture

Co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Studies

Jeannette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture on Jewish Civilization

Year

Speaker & Lecture Title

2019 Sarah Stein, “Family  Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century” 2018 Amnon Raz-Kratozkin, "Safed and its Historical (In)significance: Reflections on Zionism and the Question of Jewish Modernity" …
Kwartler Family Lecture

Year

Speaker & Lecture Title

2019 Bryan Roby, “Israel through a Colored Lens: African-American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis” 2018 Yael Zerubavel, "Desert in the Promised Land" 2017 Manuel Trajtenberg, "Israel at 70: Deep Social Fissures,…
Lapidus Family Lecture

Co-sponsored with American Studies

Rabbi James S. Diamond Memorial Lecture

In partnership with the James S. Diamond Memorial Lecture Committee and the Center for Jewish Life

The Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture

Year

Speaker & Lecture Title

2019 Leora Bilsky " Genocide and Jewish Cultural Restitution" 2017 Ethan Katz, "Jews and Anti-Semites: The Unlikely Uprising in Algiers that Helped the Allies Win the War"

2016

David Engel, …