Wednesday, January 10
"Exorcising Yehudit: Documentation, Community Interests, Politics and Ethics"
Tamar Alexander
Estelle Frankfurter Chair for Sephardic Culture Research and Chair and Founder, Folklore Studies Program, Ben Gurion University, Israel;
also Visiting Professor, Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Wednesday, January 17
"'Jewish Statues?' Jews Encountering Hellenism in Roman Palestine"
Yaron Eliav
Frankel Assistant Professor in Rabbinic Literature and Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, UofM
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Friday, January 26
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Student and Faculty Reception.
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Tuesday, January 30
"Israeli Culture as a Reflection of Reality"
Avi Hadari
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UofM
Friday, February 2
"(Re)Creating Brazilian National Identity: Jewish Ethnicity on the Brazilian Frontier."
Jeffrey Lesser
Emory University
12 noon, International Institute, Room 2609
Series on the Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
Co-Sponsored with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, UofM
Friday, February 2
"In Plain Sight: Can One Apply the Concept of 'Beauty' to the Literature and the Visual Arts that Relate to the Holocaust?"
Liliane Wessberg
Joseph Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
2-4 pm, Third Floor Conference Room, Modern Languages Building
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, UofM.
Thursday, February 8
"Adventures in Translation and Interpretation: Rendering a Medieval Midrash in English"
Lieve Teugels
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; also Visiting Scholar in Midrash, Jewish Theological Seminary
4 pm, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Friday, February 9
"Argentina's Jews: Equal Citizens or a Tolerated Minority?"
Judith Laikin Elkin
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, UofM
Series on the Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
12 noon, International Institute, Room 2609
Co-Sponsored with the Latin american and Caribbean Studies Program, UofM
Friday, February 9
"Jews did not kill Jesus because Jesus never existed: Presentation of Jews in Soviet media, 1920's-1930's"
Dr. Anna Shternshis
Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Shternshis is a candidate for Assistant Professor in Judaic-Slavic Cultural Relations.
2:00pm, Michigan League Koessler Room, Third Floor
Wednesday, February 14
"Understanding Biblical Genealogies"
Aaron Demsky
Associate Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Project for the Study of Jewish Names, Bar Ilan University
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Wednesay, February 14
"What Is Holy About the Holy Land? Jewish and Christian Perspectives"
Aaron Demsky
Associate Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Project for the Study of Jewish Names, Bar Ilan University
4 pm, 3050 Frieze Building
Friday, February 16
"The Jewish Community in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro"
Series on the Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
Keila Grinberg
UFF, Brazil
12 noon, International Institute, Room 2609
Friday, February 16
"Shlomo Ansky Between Two Worlds: The Paradigm of No Return"
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Brandeis University; Dr. Petrovsky-Shtern is a candidate for a position in Judaic-Slavic Cultural Relations
2:00pm, Michigan League Room D, Third Floor
Wednesday, March 7
"The Social History of Jewish Cooking in America"
Joan Nathan
Social Historian and Author
East Conference Room, Horance H. Rackham Graduate School, 4th Floor
Monday, March 19
"Re/covering the Un/covered: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Taking-Hold of Letting-Go"
Elliot Wolfson
Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Director of Religious Studies,
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
4 pm, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Tuesday, March 20
"The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust -A Concert/Lecture Presentation"
Jerry Silverman
Musicologist, Author, Folksinger, Teacher; Saw Mill Music Corporation
8 pm, The University of Michigan Hillel, 1429 Hill Street
Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Hillel 22nd Annual Conference on the Holocaust
Wednesday, March 28
"Fiction and Aggadah: The Jewish Poetics of Arthur A. Cohen"
Julian Levinson
Shetzer Assistant Professor of American Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, April 2
The Eleventh Annual David W. Belin Lecture
Thursday, April 5
Symposium on Taboo Topics in Polish and Polish/Jewish Cultural Studies
Halina Filipowicz and Jadwiga Maurer
Halina Filipowicz, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Jadwiga Maurer, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas.
7 pm, International Institute, Room 1636, 1080 South University
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Russian and East Eurpean Studies, UofM.
Wednesday, April 11
"The Crying (Name) Game: Israeli Law and the Construction of Citizenship"
Yofi Tirosh
Doctoral Student in Law, UofM Law School
12 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, April 2
"What 'American Jewish' Women Want"
Shulamit Reinharz
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program
Brandeis University
7:30 pm, Michigan Union Anderson Room D
530 South State Street
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Program, UofM
The David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs
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