Events

Film Screening: Rosenwald
Location
McCormick 101
Ilana Pardes, "The Book of Ruth & The Question of Migration"

Dr. Pardes is a Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Stewart Fellow in Religion at Princeton University.  An expert in comparative literature and biblical literature, Pardes will explore the resonance of the Book of Ruth in modern contexts of migration.

Location
Jones Hall 102
Speaker
Judaism in the 7th and 8th Centuries

Sunday Location: 202 Jones Hall
Monday Location: 8:30-11:45am, 202 Jones Hall; 1:00-3:00pm, 100 Jones Hall; 3:00-6:00pm, 202 Jones Hall

SUNDAY, NOV 12

10:00-12:00 Populations and Settlement
Room 202

"Literary Estate as Mirror of Persecution: The Restitution Case of the Yiddish Poet Naftali Hertz Kon"

Ina Lancman, daughter of Naftali Hertz Kon
Tomasz T. Koncewicz, LAPA Crane Fellow, Princeton University, attorney
Jeffrey Shandler, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University

The event will include a reading of selected poems in Yiddish and English by Professor Jeffrey Shandler.

Location
Marx Hall, Room 301
Ilana Pardes, "The Book of Ruth & The Question of Migration"

Dr. Pardes is Visiting Professor in the Humanities Council and Stewart Fellow in Religion at Princeton University.  An expert in comparative literature and biblical literature, Pardes will explore the resonance of the Book of Ruth in modern contexts of migration.

Location
Jones Hall 102
Speaker