Year |
Speaker & Lecture Title |
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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"
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2017 |
Francesca Bregoli, "Your Father's Interests: Emotions, Business, and Judaism in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean" |
2014 |
Yosef Kaplan, "The Taming of Eros in the Western Sephardic Diaspora" |
2013 |
Jeffrey Tigay, "Literal or Liberal? Loose Construction of Law and Jewish Interpretation of the "Torah" |
2012 |
Adam Kirsch, “Proust Between Halachah and Aggadah” |
2012 |
Rabbi David Ellenson, “Jewish Peoplehood in the Jewish State” |
2011 |
Elisheva Carlebach, ″Creating the Book of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe″ |
2011 |
Jonathan Steinberg, ″How Does One Know Who’s a Jew?″ |
2010 |
Amos Oz, ″Israel: Peace and War″ |
2009 |
W. Michael Blumenthal, ″Germany and the Jews: From Anti-Semitism to Philosemitism″ |
2007 |
Susannah Heschel, Gordon Tucker, Cornel West, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Centennial Celebration" |
2006 |
Amir Gutfreund, ″Writing with Humor about the Holocaust: The Journey of a Survivor’s Child″ |
2004 |
David Engel, ″Moral Judgment & Holocaust History: Jewish-Nazi Collaboration on Trial″ |
2004 |
Tony Kushner, ″An Evening With Tony Kushner″ |
2003 |
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, ″Sexually Speaking: Recent Trends in Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice″ |
2002 |
Martin Jay, ″When Did the Holocaust End? Reflections on Historical Objectivity″ |
2001 |
Ruth Wisse, ″Serious Thoughts About Jewish Humor″ |
2000 |
James Shapiro, ″Passion and History at Oberammergau″ |

Wendy Biderman (l), Laura Arnold Leibman, and Mark Biderman.