Events

Lunch Talk: Brendan Goldman, "Three Frankish Jews Walk into an Egyptian Prison…"

RSVP Required

Location
203 Scheide Caldwell House
Speaker
Lecture: Yair Assulin, “Thoughts about the Israeli Mind”

Yair Assulin writes a weekly cultural-political column for the leading Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. He is the author of the novels The Journey (2011) and The Things Themselves (2014) as well as the long form poem Munich (2014) and the edited collection “Hear My Voice: New Old…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
Kwartler Lecture: Yael Zerubavel, "Desert in the Promised Land"

Yael Zerubavel is Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers and was the founding director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life (1996-1918). She received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, and returned to it as faculty (1988-1996). Professor Zerubavel has published extensively in the areas of…

Location
East Pyne 010
Judaic Studies Book Group

Open to Princeton University community only.

 

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 209
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"

Rabbi Jeffrey Saks,  Director of Research, Agnon House, Jerusalem, and Director, Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions & WebYeshiva.org
Please see the Advance Materials.

 

Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Lecture: Jessica Marglin, "Nationality on Trial: Fixing Identity in the Modern Mediterranean"
Location
McCormick 106
Speaker
2018 Biderman Lecture: Laura Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: How One Early American Jewish Family Changed Their Race"

Sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies, Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies

Location
East Pyne 010
James Kugel, "When God Appeared to Humans: In Search of an Ancient Sense of Self"

James Kugel,
Starr Professor Hebrew Literature, Harvard University
Professor of Bible, Bar Ilan University

James Kugel was the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University from 1982-2003.  He retired from Harvard to become Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, where he…

Location
138 Lewis Library
Speaker