JUDAIC STUDIES EVENTS

Winter 2003

Wednesday, January 8

"Washed in the Blood of Israel: Emma Lazarus and the Rebirth of Jewish Culture in America."

Julian Levinson
Shetzer Assistant Professor of American Jewish Studies and Assitant Professor, English Language and Literature, UofM;
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building

Wednesday, January 15

"At the Threshold of Redemption: Time, Community, and History in the Thought of Nahmanides."

Nina Caputo
Visiting Assistant Professor, History, UofM
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building

Monday, January 27

"Meandering abot the Fluid Field: An Anthropologist in Search for the Bukharan Jews."

Alanna Cooper
Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, the Derrow-Goodman Lecture
12noon, 3050 Frieze Building
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

Wednesday, March 5

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

Monday, March 10

"The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Context of Early Christianity."

Lawrence Schiffman
Professor, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Part of the Michigan Lectures on Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World.
Sponsored by UofM, The Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism,and The Michigan Center for the Study of Early Christianity.

Wednesday, March 26

"Relations Between Orthodox and Liberal Judaism (Neology) in Interwar Hungary."

Kinga Frojimovic
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building

March 31-April 4

"Title: TBA."

Shlomo Avineri
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
TIME TBA, ROOM TBA

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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