FALL EVENTS 2005

• Monday, Sep. 19, 7:30 pm:   "The Shop on Main Street," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Sep. 21, 8:00 pm:   Elie Weisel, Boston University, Nobel Peace Prize winner and novelist, Walter E. Edge Lecture, "An Evening with Elie Weisel," McCosh 50.
  
  
• Saturday, Sep. 24, 9:00 pm:   "Fried Chicken and Latkes," $10 for those not affiliated with Princeton University, Richardson Auditorium.
  
  
• Monday, Sep. 26, 7:30 pm:   "The Boat is Full," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Sep. 27, 4:30 pm:   Yair Lorberbaum, Bar-Ilan Univ., Faculty of Law, "Holiness and Imitatio Dei in Early Rabbinic Literature," Frist 309.
  
  
• Tuesday, Sep. 27, 4:30 pm:   Colin Richmond, Keele University, "The Missing Jews of Medieval London," 101 McCormick Hall.
  
  
• Wednesday, Sep. 28, 12:00 pm:   Colin Richmond, Keele University, "James Parkes: Campaigner Against Antisemitism," 203 Scheide Caldwell House. (Lunch will be provided)
  
  
• Friday, Sep. 30, 12:00 pm:   Jim Diamond, Princeton University, "Constructions of Israeli Reality," Reservation required; contact pzimmer@princeton.edu in PIIRS, Bendheim 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 2, 7:00 pm:   Eran Riklis, Director, "The Syrian Bride," Tickets are required but free of charge at the Frist Ticket Office (609) 258-1742., 301 Frist Theater.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 2, 7:30 pm:   "Life is Beautiful," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Oct. 7, 12:00 pm:   Peter Schäfer, Princeton University, "Jesus in the Talmud," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House. To reserve a place email judaic@princeton.edu
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 9, 9:30 am:   "Jewish Magic in Context: Hidden Treasures from the Cairo Geniza Conference," Bobst Hall.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 10, 4:30 pm:   Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University, Issam Nassar, Bradley University & Institute of Jerusalem Studies, "Between Gaza and the West Bank," Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 10, 7:30 pm:   "Trial of Adolf Eichmann" and "Der Ewige Jude," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 16, 7:15 pm:   "Campfire," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 17, 7:30 pm:   "Schindler’s List," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Oct. 20, 4:30 pm:   Steven Aschheim, Columbia University, "Icons Beyond the Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the 21st Century," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 24, 7:30 pm:   "Europa, Europa," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Oct. 26, 4:30 pm:   Holger Zellentin, Princeton University, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Workshops: 'Reinventing Jewish Antiquity: Aratapanus' Response to Greek Exodus Traditions, 1879 Hall, Room 137. Limited to faculty and student attendance.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 30, 7:15 pm:   "Ushpizin," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 6, 9:45 am:   "Yom Iyyun: In Honor of Froma Zeitlin," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 7, 12:00 pm:   Jean-Christophe Attias, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris), "How We Ceased Being Jews," Robertson 035.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 7, 4:30 pm:   Esther Benbassa, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris), "Arabs and Jews: New Nationalisms and Diasporas," WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 7, 4:30 pm:   Meir Shalev, Noted Israeli Author, "My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner," WWS Roberston Hall, Bowl 1.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 7, 7:30 pm:   "Fighter," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 9, 4:30 pm:   Eduard N. Iricinschi, Princeton University, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Workshops: "A New Track in a Pathless Desert: Christians as Triton Genos in Eusebius' Apologetic Writings," 1879 Hall, Room 137. Limited to faculty and student attendance.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:30 pm:   David Gilbert, Former CBS Middle East correspondent, "The Challenges of Covering the Midde-East Conflict: An Insider's View, WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
  
  
• Friday, Nov. 11, 12:00 pm:   Ulrich Knoepflmacher, Princeton University, "The Portable Torah: Some Recollections of a Vanished Jewish Community in the Bolivian Andes," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House. ***Note the date change from 11/4/2005
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 13, 7:15 pm:   "No Longer 17," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 14, 7:30 pm:   "Partisans of Vilna," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 16, 4:30 pm:   Moulie Vidas, Princeton University, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Workshops: "The Bavli's discourse on Genealogy in Qiddushin IV," 1879 Hall, Room 137. Limited to faculty and student attendance.
  
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7:30 pm:   Ruth Wisse, Harvard, Bowen Lecture "The Great Jewish Political Experiment: Did the Diaspora Save or Doom the Jews?" McCosh 50.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30 pm:   Yossi Klein Halevi, New Republic contributing editor and Israeli correspondent, "Peace and the Question of Israel’s Legitimacy," Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS.
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 20, 7:15 pm:   "Shalom Abu Bassem," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 21, 7:30 pm:   "Gloomy Sunday," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 28, 7:30 pm:   Eleizer Shapiro, Filmmaker, "Eicha" and "The Last Scene," Filmmaker screens and discusses both films, McCosh 28.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 28, 7:30 pm:   "Sunshine," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7:30 pm:   Motti Regev, Salaam Shalom Series “Bridging Through Music: Popular Israeli Music”, A lecture with musical sounds, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 30, 4:30 pm:   Elizabeth J. Kessler, Princeton University, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Workshops: "The Foundation of the Christian Icon of the Virgin and Child: Dionysian Monotheism in Nea Paphos, Cyprus," 1879 Hall, Room 137. Limited to faculty and student attendance.
  
  
• Friday, Dec. 2, 12:00 pm:   Mark Cohen, Princeton University, "Maimonides and Charity: Understanding the Mishneh Torah in Light of the Documents of the Cairo Geniza," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 5, 7:30 pm:   "Enemies, A Love Story," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Dec. 7, 4:30 pm:   Philippa Townsend, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Workshops; "Divine Transmission: Time and Sacred Tradition according to Iamblichus and Mani," 1879 Hall, Room 137. Limited to faculty and student attendance.
  
  
• Wednesday, Dec. 7, 8:00 pm:   Mary Douglas, University College of London emeritus, The 28th Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture, “Numbering the People of Israel: Biblical and Secular Agendas”, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm:   "Because of That War," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Dec. 14, 4:30 pm:   Gregg Gardner, Princeton University, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Workshops: "The Early Rabbinic Movement from a Late Antique Perspective: Ben Zakkai at Yavneh," 1879 Hall, Room 137. Limited to faculty and student attendance.
  
  
• Thursday, Dec. 15, 4:30 pm:   Nathan Wachtel, College of France, Institute for Advanced Study, "The Contemporary Marranos of Northeastern Brazil," Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203.