Jewish Studies Events 1998-1999

• Oct 19: Aviva Zornberg,author of The Beginning of Desire (Genesis). Jewish Studies and CJL

• Oct 20-Nov 8 1998: McCarter Theater. I .B. Singer, Meshugah. New play written and directed by Emily Mann.

• Nov 13-15: A WEEKEND CELEBRATING WOMEN AND JUDAISM (Inauguration of year-long series on Gender and Judaism, co-sponsored Jewish Studies/Women's Studies)

• Nov 13: 2- 5 p.m. Back to the Sources: Feminist Critics and Jewish Identity, SYMPOSIUM with Natalie Davis (Princeton, emeritus), Susan Gubar (University of Indiana), Susan Suleiman (Harvard) Marianne Hirsch (Dartmouth) Rachel Brownstein (CUNY) (with the participation of Deborah Nord, Froma Zeitlin)

• Nov 14-15: 8 p.m. Dance Concert. Ze'eva Cohen. Creative Explorations of Judaism and Gender: Dances Choreographed from Biblical Themes: Jephthah's Daughter, Negotiations (Sarah and Hagar), If Eve Had a Daughter (Mother's Tongue I Love You)

• Nov 15: 3-5 p.m. Daughters of Sarah: Four Jewish Women Poets Marilyn Hacker, Irena Klepfisz, Alicia Ostriker, Eleanor Wilner

• Nov 16: noon: Jeffrey Richards, University of Wuppertal, "Preserving Memories and National Identity in Contemporary Germany: The reception of Viktor Klemperer's diaries." Program in Jewish Studies, Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature

• Nov 17: 4:30 p.m. Peter Schäfer, Ronald O. Perelman Chair in Jewish Studies. Inaugural Lecture. "Images of God's Femininity in Early Jewish Mysticism."

• Dec 2: 4:30 p.m. Bezalel Narkiss, Director,the Index of Jewish Art, Jerusalem. "Some Iconographic Origins of the Ashburnham Pentateuch." cosponsored Programs in Medieval Studies, Jewish Studies, Index of Christian Art.

• Dec 10: 4:30 p.m. Anthony Molho. "Jews and Marranos Before the Law: Five Stories from Thessaloniki" Sponsored by Programs in Hellenic Studies and Jewish Studies, NES.

• Dec 10: 4:30 p.m. Yosef Yahalom, University of Pennsylvania. " Pilgrimage at the Crossroads: Judah Halevi in Cairo" cosponsored: Programs in Jewish Studies, Medieval Studies, Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Jewish Life.

• Feb 9: Wendy Wasserstein, playwright:: "My Life (Jewish) in the Theater" (Gender and Judaism series). Women's Studies, Jewish Studies.

• Feb 16: 4:30-6 p.m. Faculty Seminar, James Young, Stewart Professor. GERMANY'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL QUESTION: MEMORY, COUNTER-MEMORY, AND THE END OF THE MONUMENT." 1) "Jewish-German Memory: Berlin's Jewish Museum.

• Feb 16: 8 p.m. Marty Glickman, former US Olympian, and Margaret Lambert, former German and US National Champion. "Barred from Glory: Remembering the Nazi Olympics" CJL: Jewish Heritage Week.

• Feb 17: 4:30 p.m. Shmuel Sisso, Consul General of Israel in New York. "The Role of the Peace Process in the Upcoming Israeli Elections." WWS

• Feb 23: 4:30-6 p.m. Faculty Seminar, James Young, Stewart Professor. "German Counter-Memory, 1970-1996.

• Feb 25: Itamar Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University. "Beyond the Siege: Arab-Israeli Relations at Century's End." Public Lecture Series.

• Mar 4: Marion Kaplan, Queens College. "When the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: Jewish Women in Nazi Germany." Women's Studies and Jewish Studies. GENDER AND JUDAISM SERIES. Women's Jewish History Week. Programs in Women's Studies and Jewish Studies.

• Mar 7-8. CONFERENCE: Icon, Image, and Text in Modern Jewish Culture. Organizers: Leora Batnitzky and Barbara Mann. (JWS, Humanities Council, Art & Archaeology).

• Mar 14-15 1999: Latin American Jewish Studies Association: 10th International conference: Migration, Borders, and Displacement: The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America: CJL, LAS, JWS

• Mar 21-Apr 21: Photography Exhibit, Edward Serotta: Germany, Jews, Memory. Bernstein Gallery, WWS. In conjunction with the conference, Germany, Jews, and the Future of Memory.

• Mar 23: 4:30-6 p.m. Faculty Seminar, James Young, Stewart Professor. "Germany's National Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe."

• Mar 24: Monika Garbowska, Marie-Curie Slobodska University of Lublin. "Is There a Place for Jewish Culture in Contemporary Poland?" Drucker Lecture.

• Mar 26, Noon: Peter Schäfer, "Circumcision and Epispasmos in the Ancient World." Program in the Ancient World

• Mar 29: 4:30. Richard Bernstein, New School. "Freud and Moses: The Psychological Power of Religious Tradition." Respondents: Susan Sugarman, Peter Schäfer. Center for the Study of Religion. Inaugural Event.

• Apr 6: noon. James Young, Stewart Professor. Discussion of forthcoming book, After-Image: The Uncanny Arts of Holocaust Memory

• Apr 15-18 1999. CONFERENCE. From Holocaust History to Memory: Germany, Jews, and the Future. JWS, Federal Republic of Germany, NJ Commission on Holocaust Education

• Apr 20: 4:30-6:30 p.m. SYMPOSIUM: Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish. The Readers Respond to the Book and the Author Responds to the Reader: Anthony Grafton, Elliott Horowitz, Michael Wood

• Apr 29: Michael S. Roth, "Making an Exhibition Historical: 'Freud: Conflict and Culture' curator of Freud Exhibition currently on view at the Jewish Museum in New York. 4:30 ECS Faber Lecture

• Apr 29: 4:00 p.m. Sasson Somekh, Tel Aviv University. "Hebraists in Cairo Today: Poetics and Politics." NES.

• Apr 29: 8:00 p.m. Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew University, winner of Israel Prize 1999. "Identity in Jewish Art." Bowen Lecture.

FILM SERIES:

Fall 1998
1) In conjunction with AMS/JWS 328: on American Jewish Writers (Deborah Nord)

• Oct 12: THE JAZZ SINGER
• Oct 25: HESTER STREET
• Nov 9: GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
• Nov 23: CROSSING DELANCEY
• Dec 7: ANNIE HALL

• Sep. 28: THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (Czech) [feature] 1965
• Oct 5: THE BOAT IS FULL (Swiss) [feature] 1981
• Oct. 12: TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN (1997), THE NAZI DESIGNERS OF DEATH (1994) [documentaries]
• Oct. 19: SCHINDLER'S LIST (USA) [feature] 1993
• Oct. 26: EUROPA, EUROPA (German/French/Polish) [feature] 1991
• Nov 9: DER EWIGE JUDE [Nazi propaganda film, 1940] dir. Franz Hippler Degenerate Art: [Documentaries]
• Nov. 16: REVOLT OF JOB (Hungarian) [feature] 1983
• Nov. 23: Yale Video Testimony. Menahem S
• Nov. 30: KORCZAK (Poland) [feature] 1991
• Dec 7: PARTISANS OF VILNA (English/multilingual) [documentary] 1985
• Dec 14: UNDER THE DOMIM TREE (Israel) [Feature] 1994

Spring 1999:
In conjunction with the conference, Jews, Germany, and the Future of Memory (German films or films about German Jews)

• Mar 9: THE MURDERERS AMONG US (Germany 1946)
• Mar 23: BORN IN BERLIN (Israel 1991)
• Mar 30: DAVID (West Germany 1979)
• Apr 6: JACOB THE LIAR (East Germany 1974)
• Apr 13: MY MOTHER'S COURAGE (Germany 1995)