Jewish Studies Events Spring 2003
- Wednesday, Feb. 5, 4:30 pm:
Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University, "The Islamization of the Arab-Israeli Conflict," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- Monday, Feb. 10, 7:15 pm:
"Avoda," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Wednesday, Feb. 12, 4:30 pm:
David Menashri, Tel Aviv University, "Iran and Israel: A Couple at Odds," WWS Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
- Thursday, Feb. 13, 4:30 pm:
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College, "Ghosts of Home: The Town of Czernowitz, in Jewish History and Memory," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
- Friday, Feb. 14, 10:00 am:
Susan Einbinder, Hebrew Union College, "God's Forgotten Sheep: Jewish Poetry and the Expulsion from France (1306)," 211 Dickinson.
- Friday, Feb. 14, 12:00 pm:
Patricia Woods, University of Florida, "Courting the Court: A Small Women's Movement, the Judicial Community, and the Battle for the Soul of the Jewish State," Jones 102.
- Monday, Feb. 17, 4:30 pm:
Gideon Doron, Tel Aviv University, "Post 2003 Election: The Future of the Israeli Parliamentary Democracy," WWS Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
TO BE RESCHEDULED
- Monday, Feb. 17, 7:15 pm:
"They Were Ten," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Monday, Feb. 24, 7:15 pm:
"Siege," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Monday, Feb. 24, 8:00 pm:
Binny Friedman, "Inside the Cauldron: A Survivors Account of the Jerusalem Sbarro's Pizzeria Bombing," WWS Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
- Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7:00 pm:
"Hester Street," JWS 315 Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Thursday, Feb. 27, 6:30 pm:
"Kastner Trial," Film Screening in Conjunction with Conflict, Culture, and Healing: Israeli Cultural Series, Rocky-Mathey Theater.
- Monday, Mar. 3, 7:15 pm:
"Wooden Gun," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Mar. 4, 4:30 pm:
Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, "Past Revisted? Historical Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism," Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Mar. 4, 7:00 pm:
"Into the Arms of Strangers," JWS 315 Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Wednesday, Mar. 5, 7:30 pm:
"Fighter" Arnošt Lustig film, Film screening in conjunction with March 6 lecture by Arnošt Lustig, Friend 008.
- Thursday, Mar. 6, 4:30 pm:
Arnošt Lustig, American University, "Tales from a Scholar, Screenwriter, Storyteller, Survivor," Friend 008.
- Friday, Mar. 7, 12:00 pm:
Motti Lerner, Tel Aviv University, "Conflict, Culture, and Healing: Writing Political Plays in Israel Today," Conflict, Culture, and Healing: Israeli Cultural Series, Jones 202.
- Monday, Mar. 10, 7:15 pm:
"Sallah," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Thursday, Mar. 13, 4:30 pm:
Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University, "At Home on the Small Screen: American Jews and 1950's Television," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- Monday, Mar. 24, 7:15 pm:
"Shulie's Fiancé," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Mar. 25, 4:30 pm:
Nike Wagner, University of Vienna, "The Political Dreams of Theodor Herzl," Bobst 105.
- Tuesday, Mar. 25, 7:00 pm:
"No Missing Link," JWS 315 Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Wednesday, Mar. 26, 4:30 pm:
Rachel Elior, Hebrew University, "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Mysticism," Friend 008.
- Thursday, Mar. 27, 12:00 pm:
Renata Segre, "The Shoah in Italy: Current Trends and Research," 211 Dickinson Hall.
- Thursday, Mar. 27, 4:30 pm:
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, "Sexually Speaking: Recent Trends in Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice," WWS Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
- Monday, Mar. 31, 4:30 pm:
Jack Kugelmass, Arizona State University, "You, Too Can Be a Jew: 'How to' Books and the Secret Language of American Jews," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
- Monday, Mar. 31, 7:15 pm:
"Hamsin," Israeli Film Series, McCosh 46.
- Tuesday, Apr. 1, 4:30 pm:
Jack Kugelmass, Arizona State University, "Rediscovering Eastern Europe: The Construction and Reconstruction of Memory in the Famed Old Jewish Quarter of Krakow," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
- Tuesday, Apr. 1, 7:00 pm:
"Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition," JWS 315 Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Apr. 1, 7:30 pm:
Eran Preis, Temple University, "Beyond the Walls," Conflict, Culture, and Healing: Israeli Cultural Series, McCosh 50.
- Wednesday, Apr. 2, 5:45 pm:
Moshe Ibgi, Israeli Actor, "The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Israeli Film, A Search for Common Ground," Lecture in Hebrew with screening of film clips., McCosh 10.
- Wednesday, Apr. 2, 6:20 pm:
Moshe Ibgi, Israeli Film Actor, Film Screening "Night" and "Cup Final," McCosh 10.
- Thursday, Apr. 3, 12:00 pm:
Jack Kugelmass, Arizona State University, “Sifting the Ruins: Yiddish Travelogue to Poland Immediately After World War II”, Aaron Burr Hall, Room 106.
- Thursday, Apr. 3, 4:30 pm:
Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University, "Theatricality, Identity and the Modern Jewish Experience," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- Friday, Apr. 4, 10:00 am:
"Nazi Germany and the Humanities," Conference, 211 Dickinson Hall.
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- Saturday, Apr. 5, 9:00 am:
"Nazi Germany and the Humanities," Conference, 211 Dickinson Hall.
www.princeton.edu/sites/ecs/NaziConfInfo.html
- Monday, Apr. 7, 12:15 pm:
Yehouda Shenhav, Tel-Aviv University, "The Cloak, the Cage and the Fog of Sanctity: The Role of Religion in the 'Discovery' of Arab-Jews by the Zionist Movement," Wallace 165.
- Monday, Apr. 7, 7:15 pm:
"Rain 1949," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Apr. 8, 4:30 pm:
Robert Chazan, New York University, "Violence and Sex: Jewish Polemic Imagery of Medieval Christendom," Rocky-Mathey Theater.
- Wednesday, Apr. 9, 4:30 pm:
Gabriella Safran, Stanford University, "Martyrdom and Revenge: S. An-sky on Terror and the Jewish Response to Violence," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- Thursday, Apr. 10, 4:30 pm:
Rachel Elior, Hebrew University, "Solar Calendar and the Lunar Calendar in Jewish History in Late Antiquity," Religion Dept. Lounge, 1879 Hall.
- Friday, Apr. 11, 7:00 pm:
Israeli Film Screening, "I Don't Give A Damn," McCosh 50.
- Monday, Apr. 14, 7:15 pm:
"Under the Domim Tree," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Apr. 15, 4:30 pm:
Rachel Elior, Hebrew University, "Priests and Sages in Early Jewish Mysticism," Religion Dept. Lounge, 1879 Hall.
- Monday, Apr. 21, 4:30 pm:
Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University, "Maimonides on Prophecy and Cosmogony," Dept of Religion Lounge 1879 Hall.
- Monday, Apr. 21, 7:30 pm:
"Hahesder," Film Screening, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Apr. 22, 4:30 pm:
Hanno Loewy, Rutgers University Scholar in Residence, "Judgement in Twilight: The Holocaust in Courtroom Films," Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Tuesday, Apr. 22, 7:00 pm:
"A Life Apart: Hasidism in America," JWS 315 Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Monday, Apr. 28, 7:00 pm:
"The Children of Chabannes," Film Presented by Lisa Gossels, Computer Science Building, Room 104.
- Monday, Apr. 28, 7:15 pm:
"Afula Express," Israeli Film Series, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].
- Monday, Apr. 28, 7:30 pm:
Lisa Gossels, Director of "The Children of Chabannes" The 2001 Emmy Award Winning Outstanding Historical Programming., "The Children of Chabannes," Film Screening & Discussion, Room 104 Computer Science Building.
- Tuesday, Apr. 29, 4:30 pm:
"Paragraph 175", Film, Frist 309.
- Wednesday, Apr. 30, 8:00 pm:
Bernard Lewis, "The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition," The 25th Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture, McCosh 10.
- Thursday, May. 1, 4:30 pm:
Tamar Hermann, Tel Aviv University, "Neither Dove Nor Hawks: The Reschuffling of Israeli Public Opinion on the Middle East Conflict 2000-2003," Tamar Hermann is the Director of Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University and serves as the Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Open University of Israel, Robertson Hall, Bowl 016.
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