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, Shared Aspirations"

2016

Shlomo Avineri, "Karl Marx’s Jewish Question(s)"

2015

David Grossman, Reading and Q and A

2015

Laura S. Levitt, "Holding the Past: Justice and the Promise of Jewish History"

2013

Sayed Kashua, "The Foreign Mother Tongue" 

2012

Avishai Margalit, “History on Trial, the Historian as Traitor: The Case of Josephus”

2011

ChaeRan Freeze, “Craftling an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity in Imperial Russia: The Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova"

2010

Zvi Hecker, “Memory, the Soil of Architecture”

2009

Ruth Gavison, “Jews and Israelis:  Issues in Membership in the Jewish religion, the Jewish people and the Jewish State”

2009

Gershon Baskin, “Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible?”

2007

Moshe Halbertal, “‘If it were not written in scripture it could not have been said’: Rabbinic Daring in Interpretation”