Program in Jewish Studies - Princeton University

Jewish Studies Events 2001-2002

Tuesday, Sept. 28, 4:30 PM: Esther Benbassa, Professor of Jewish History at the University of Paris IV, "Jews in Contemporary France: Citizenship or Community?" Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 8:00 PM: Laurence Silberstein, Chair of the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University. McCosh 62
Thursday, Sept. 30, 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM: "Christian and Jewish Art" Iconography and Methodology from the Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art and The Index of Christian Art, Princeton. Speakers include Bezalel Narkiss, Adreina Contessa, Ariella Amar, Pamela Sheingoin and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin. Prospect House.
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 4:30 PM: Jacqueline Osherow, Poet and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Utah, Poetry Reading. Center for Jewish Life
Monday, Oct. 18, 4:30 PM: Aaron Miller, Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator for Arab-Israeli Negotiations for the U.S. Department of State, "In Pursuit of Arab-Israeli Peace." WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 2
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 4:20 PM: Scott Spector, University of Michigan, "Zionism and Territoriality in Prague, From Buber to Kafka". 121 East Pyne
Thursday, Oct. 21, 12:00 PM: Annette Wieviorka, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, "Jews in France: The Birth of a Community", 247 East Pyne; also at 4:30 p.m., "France and Crimes Against Humanity," WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 8
Thursday, Oct. 21, 4:30 PM: James Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and the author of The Bible as It Was, "The Bible's Most Ancient Interpreters". Robertson Hall, Dodd Auditorium
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 4:30 PM: Johannes Niehoff, Professor at Freiberg University, "The Romaniote Jewish Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean." 202 Jones Hall
Friday, Dec. 3, 10:00 AM: Susan Einbinder, Davis Seminar Fellow, "The Voice from the Fire: the Medieval Literature of Jewish Martyrdom." 211 Dickinson
Thursday, Feb. 10, 4:30 PM: Noga Tarnopolsky, Copeland Colloquium Fellow at Amherst College, Writer and Journalist, "Repression and the Quest for Justice in Argentina: The Story of One Jewish Family in Argentina" WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 2
Thursday, Feb. 17, 4:30 PM: Joseph Schraibman, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University, "The Hispanic Inquisition: The Carvajals", Room 107 at 58 Prospect; 8:00 p.m. "Havana-Nagila: The Jews in Cuba" film presentation will be followed by Professor Schraibman's commentary, Betts Auditorium
Friday, Feb. 18, 12:00 PM: Joseph Schraibman (see above), "Memoirs of a Cuban Jew" Center for Jewish Life Cafe
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 4:30 PM: Steven Nadler, Department of Philosophy and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?" WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 2
Thursday, Feb. 24, 12:00 PM: Steven Nadler (see above), "Spinoza in the Garden of Good and Evil", Room 107 at 58 Prospect Avenue.
Thursday, March 2, 12:00 PM: Derek Rubin, Institute for Modern Languages at the University of Utrecht, "Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity and Affiliation in Recent Jewish American Fiction", Room 107 at 58 Prospect
Tuesday, March 7, 12:00 PM: Alan Weisbard, Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Center for Human Values and Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, "E pluribus conversatio: Toward an Engaged Dialogue Between Jewish and Secular Bioethics", Room 107 at 58 Prospect
Thursday, March 9, 4:30 PM: Yael Zerubavel, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University, "The Binding of Isaac and the Patriotic Martyr: Contested Representations of Heroism and Sacrifice in Israeli Culture", WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 5
Thursday, March 23, 12:00 PM: Deborah Hertz, Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College, "High Culture Mothers and the Birth of Reform Judaism in Berlin", Room 107 at 58 Prospect Avenue
Thursday, March 30, 12:00 PM: Marjorie Agosin, Wellesley College Department of Spanish, "The Alphabet in My Hand: On Becoming a Jewish Latin American Writer", Room 107 at 58 Prospect 2
Wednesday, April 5, 8:00 PM: Nathan Glazer, Professor Emeritus at the Harvard School of Education, "The Jewish Urban Experience: An Age That is Past", McCormick 101
Thursday, April 6, 4:30 PM: Francesco Rosi, Filmmaker, Roundtable Discussion of his films, "La Tregua" and "Christ Stopped at Eboli", WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 2
Thursday, April 13, 4:30 PM: James Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, "Passion and History at Oberammergau", WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 2
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30 PM: U. C. Knoepflmacher, Professor of English and Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton University, "Oruro: Growing Up Jewish in the Andes", WWS Robertson Hall Bowl 2
Wednesday, May 3, 12:00 PM: Menachem Lorberbaum, School of Social Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies, "The Jewish Political Tradition", Room 107 at 58 Prospect
Wednesday, May 10, 12:00 PM: Gadi Taub, Rutgers University, "Post Zionism", Room 107 at 58 Prospect

FILM SERIES:

1) In conjunction with the exhibition "Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture" (on view at The Jewish Museum through April 23), the film series "Jews and Jewish Culture in Early German Cinema", which is curated and introduced by Thomas Y. Levin, Associate Professor of German, Princeton University, will be presented at the New York Jewish Film Festival, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Produced with support from the Goethe-Institut New York. Jewish Film Festival

Jan 16: MEYER AUS BERLIN/MEYER FROM BERLIN and SCHUHPALAST PINKUS/SHOE PALACE PINKUS
Jan 23: ALS ICH TOT WAR/WHEN I WAS DEAD and STOLZ DER FIRMA: GESCHICHTE EINES LEHRLINGS/THE PRIDE OF THE FARM: THE STORY OF AN APPRENTICE
Jan 25: ANDERS ALS DIE ANDERN/DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS

2) February 8, 7:00 PM: SCHUHPALAST PINKUS/SHOE PALACE PINKUS (Ernst Lubitsch, 1916; 48 mins.) and ALS ICH TOT WAR/WHEN I WAS DEAD (Ernst Lubitsch, 1916; 36 mins.) Rocky-Mathey Theater. These very rare films are silent with German intertitles which will be translated by Tom Levine.