JUDAIC STUDIES EVENTS

Fall 2001

Friday, October 12

"The Land Question in Palestine: 1882-1949."

Kenneth Stein
Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies,
Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, Emory University
12 noon, 3050 Frieze Building
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Studies

Wednesday, October 17

THE TWELFTH ANNUAL DAVID W. BELIN LECTURE IN AMERICAN JEWISH AFFAIRS

Wednesday, October 24

"The Invention of Rosh Hashanah: Interpreting the Festival of New Returns."

Moshe Gold
Department of English, Fordham University
4PM, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building

Thursday, October 25

"Sephardic Songs in the Imangined Jewish Communities of Spain and Portugal."

Dr. Judith R. Cohen
Ethnomusicologist;
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, York University Music Department, Toronto;
Recital-Demonstration
4PM, 3050 Frieze Building

Tuesday, November 13

"Broadcasting the Nation: Radio and the Shaping of Modern Israel."

Derek Penslar
Zacks Chair of Jewish History, Univeristy of Toronto
12 noon, 3050 Frieze Building

Tuesday, November 13

"Zionism, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism."

Derek Penslar
Zacks Chair of Jewish History, University of Toronto
4PM, 2011 MLB

Tuesday, December 4

"Between Utopia and Messianism: Agnon's 'Only Yesterday' Revisited."

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Padnos Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies, UofM;
Associate Professor, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem
4 pm, 3050 Frieze Building

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Louis and Helen Padnos Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies, UofM;
Associate Professor, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

8PM, Temple Emanuel
1715 East Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI

The David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs
The annual Belin Lecture was endowed in 1991 by David W. Belin to provide an opportunity for serious discussion of the contemporary American Jewish community. In addition to the bringing distinguished speakers to the Ann Arbor campus, the Belin Lecture is published and distributed to interested individuals and institutions.

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