September 2 - 26
"The Jewish World in Postcards"
An exhibition of 235 postcard images of Russian Jewish life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Borrowed from the Jewish Heritage Center "Petersburg Judaica" in St. Petersburg, Russia
Monday - Friday, 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Media Union Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., North Campus
Thursday, September 4
"Posen Project Colloquium"
Led by Zvi Gitelman
Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, Posen Project Director, U-M
3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
By invitation only.
Thursday, September 4
"The Jewish World in Postcards"
Valery Dymshits
Director, Jewish Heritage Center, Petersburg Judaica
6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Media Union Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., North Campus
Opening reception and lecture for the public
Monday, September 8
"The Postcard as a Mirror of Russian Jewish Mentalite in the Early Twentieth Century"
Valery Dymshits
Director, Jewish Heritage Center, Petersburg Judaica
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Media Union Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., North Campus
Wednesday, September 17
"Israeli Society and Politics Between War and Peace"
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
8:00 - 10:00 p.m., 3050 Frieze Building
Thursday, September 18
"Modernity and Tradition, Religion and Secularity in the Construction of Contemporary Jewish Identity:
The Israeli and American Experiences"
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
12:00 - 2:00 p.m., 3050 Frieze Building
By invitation only.
Thursday, September 18
"The Challenges of Secular Judaism"
Posen Project Colloquium
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
3:30 - 5:30 p.m., 3050 Frieze Building
Wednesday, September 24
"Beyond the Pale: Jewish Life in Pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburg"
Benjamin Nathans
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., 3050 Frieze Building
Sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
Wednesday, October 8
"Mandelstam's 'Noise of Time': Autobiography and History"
Michael Stanislawski
Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Columbia University
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., 3050 Frieze Building
Sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
Thursday, October 9
"Hebrew, Yiddish, and the Translingual Imagination on the Writing of Aharon Appelfeld"
Naomi Sokoloff
Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies Professor
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
12:00 - 1:00 p.m., 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, October 27
"Jesus of Nazareth, the Temple Tantrum, and the Dog that Did Not Bark:
Current Reconstructions of the Death of Jesus"
Paula Fredriksen
Wm. Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University School of Theology
7:00 p.m., Mendelsohn Theatre, 911 N. University
Sponsored by UM, The Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism, and The Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies
Part of the Michigan Lectures on Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World
Tuesday, November 4
"How Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport Invented S. An-sky: The Jew as a Petersburg Writer"
Gabriella Safran
Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., 3050 Frieze Building
Sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
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