Wednesday, January 12
"Jewish Sages and the Followers of Jesus in the First Century"
Professor Moshe D. Herr
Hebrew University and Frankel Visiting Professor of Rabbinic Literature
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Wednesday, January 12
"Texts, Texuality and Talmud Torah"
Dr. W. David Nelson
Jewish, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
4:00 pm, Salinger Resource Center, 3050 Frieze Building
Thursday, January 13
"Mishnaic Law in a Midrashic Context"
Dr. W. David Nelson
Jewish, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Wednesday, January 19
"The Einsatzgruppen in Przemysl, Poland: September 1939"
Profesor John J. Hartman
Clinican Associate Professor of Psychiatry
12 noon, 1636 School of Social Work Building/ International Institute
Co-sponsored with the Center for Russian and East European Studies
Wednesday, January 19
"The Temple Mount in Jerusalem: Between Jews and Christians"
Dr. Yaron Z. Eliav
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
4:00 pm, Salinger Resource Room, 3050 Frieze Building
Thursday, January 20
"Attending the Bath House on Sabbath? Tannaitic Halacha and Its Roman Context"
Dr. Yaron Z. Eliav
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Thursday, February 10
"Pursuit of Arab-Israeli Peace: The Year Ahead"
Aaron David Miller
Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator for Arab-Israeli Ralations, U.S. Department of State
2:30 - 4:00 pm, 1636 International Institute
Co-sponsored with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Departments of Hsitory, Near Eastern Studies and Political Science.
Tuesday, February 10
"Palestine Was but a Halting Place: Charles Reznikoff's Poetics of Diasporic Space"
Ranen Omer-Sherman
Department of English, University of Notre Dame
4:00 pm, 3222 Angell Hall
Tuesday, February 17
"Jews and Gentiles in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Enactments on Jewish-Gentile Relations"
Zvi Arie Steinfeld
Professor ot Talmud, Bar Ilan Universty and Formerly Visiting Frankel Professor of Rabbinic Literature, U of M
4:00 pm, Rackham Lecture Room - East, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
Tuesday, February 22
"Imaginary Blacks, Invisible Jews: Lessons from the Irving Howe-Ralph Ellison Exchange"
Julian Levinson
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
4:00 pm, 3222 Angell Hall
Wednesday, March 15
The Tenth Annual David W. Belin Lecture
Thursday, March 16
"Conversation with Survivor and Liberator"
Henry Greenbaum and George Wise
Survivor of Auschwitz & US Army Medic and Liberator at Dachau, respectively
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Co-sponsored by U of M Hillel/Conference on the Holocaust
Wednesday, March 22
"Intermarriage and Jewish Continuity in the United States"
Charles Liebman
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze
Thursday, March 23
"The Prospects for Religious Pluralism in Israel"
Charles Liebman
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3050 Frieze
Wednesday, April 5
"Zion in the Garden State: Ben Shahn and Working Class Jewish Identity"
Diana L. Linden
Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art, U of M
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3050 Frieze
Wednesday, March 15
"The Jew Within: New Contours of American Jewish Identity"
Steven M. Cohen
Associate Professor, Melton Centre for Jewish Education
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
8:00 pm, Rackham Assembly Hall
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
The David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs