Past Events - 2018
Ethan Katz, "Jews and Anti-Semites: The Unlikely Uprising in Algiers That Helped the Allies Win the War"
Mar 5, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Lapidus Lecture: "'The Right and the Left Yell at Us, So We Must Be Doing Something Well': The Depoliticization of American Jewish Politics and Philanthropy," Lila Corwin Berman
Mar 7, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Karen Britt and Ra’anan Boustan, “Blood on the Floor: Mosaic Art, Violent Imagery, and Militant Piety in a Galilean Synagogue”
Mar 8, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
203 Scheide Caldwell House
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Mytelka Scholar in Residence, "Safed and its Historical (In)significance"
Apr 10, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
James Kugel, "When God Appeared to Humans: In Search of an Ancient Sense of Self"
Apr 19, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
138 Lewis Library
2018 Biderman Lecture: Laura Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: How One Early American Jewish Family Changed Their Race"
Apr 25, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Lecture: Jessica Marglin, "Nationality on Trial: Fixing Identity in the Modern Mediterranean"
Oct 17, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
McCormick 106
James Diamond Memorial Lecture: Rabbi Jeffrey Saks, "From A City of the Dead to A City in Its Fullness: Between Tragedy and Nostalgia in the Long Agnonian Arc"
Oct 18, 2018, 5:00 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Lecture: Jonatan Benarroch, "Jesus as God of the Egyptians and the Paschal Lamb: The Metamorphosis of a Jewish Anti-Christian Polemic"
Oct 23, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
1879 Hall Lounge
Kwartler Lecture: Yael Zerubavel, "Desert in the Promised Land"
Nov 13, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Lecture: Yair Assulin, “Thoughts about the Israeli Mind”
Nov 15, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
Lunch Talk: Brendan Goldman, "Three Frankish Jews Walk into an Egyptian Prison…"
Dec 7, 2018, 12:00 pm
Location
203 Scheide Caldwell House