Lapidus Family Fund in American Jewish Studies
Thanks to a recent grant by Sidney and Ruth Lapidus and their family, the Program collaborates with the Program in Judaic Studies to offer courses and events related to American Jewish Studies.
The 2009-2010 Lapidus Lecture will be delivered on Tuesday May 4, 2010 by Professor William E. Forbath, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin. More information about Professor Forbath's public lecture and graduate workshop will be posted in the fall semester.
In the Fall 2009 semester, Rabbi Lance Sussman is teaching America in Judaism, AMS 323/JDS 323/REL 394. The seminar examines the Americanization of Judaism beginning with earliest transplanted Iberian concepts of Judaism in the "new world" to the transformation of Jewish religious life in the United States. Special attention is paid to Jewish theology, the rabbinate, gender, denominationalism and the polity of the American synagogue.
Rabbi Sussman will also present a workshop as part of our fall 2009 workshop series:
Monday, November 9, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Tolstoy's Rabbi, American Progressivism and Jewish Agriculture: A First Look at Dr. Joseph Krauskopf and the Founding of the National Farm School
Rabbi Lance Sussman, Visiting Professor of Religion and Senior Rabbi, Congregation Keneseth Israel
Cosponsored with the Program in Judaic Studies
