FALL EVENTS 2007

• Sunday, Sep. 30, 7:15 pm:   "Beaufort," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Oct. 2, 4:30 pm:   Christian Delage, Université de Paris-VIII and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, “The Nuremberg Trial” A film and discussion by the filmmaker / historian, McCosh 60.
  
  
• Wednesday, Oct. 3, 4:30 pm:   Peter Cole, Readings from Peter Cole, Poet and Translator, The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 7, 7:15 pm:   "The Bubble," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 8, 4:30 pm:   Dan Vittorio Segre, University of Lugano (Switzerland), "The Rise and Fall of Italian Jewry from 1839-1939 and the Revival of Italian Judaism in Italy and Israel," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Oct. 11, 4:30 pm:   Sasson Somekh, Tel Aviv University emeritus, "Baghdad, Yesterday: A Memoir of a Secular Arab-Jew," The 29th Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture, Betts Auditorium.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 14, 7:15 pm:   "Aviva My Love," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 15, 4:30 pm:   Omer Bartov, Brown University, "Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Oct. 16, 4:30 pm:   Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth University, Cornel West, Princeton University, and Gordon Tucker, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Centennial Celebration," The Biderman Lecture, McCormick 101.
  
  
• Wednesday, Oct. 17, 4:30 pm:   Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University, "Why it is Easier to be a Hawk," Talk will be in Hebrew, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 6, 4:30 pm:   Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen, "Beautiful Dachau," Film screening and discussion, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 8, 4:30 pm:   Akiva Eldar, Senior Political Editor for Ha’Aretz, "The Jewish Settlements and the Prospects for Israeli Palestinian Political Settlement," 202 Jones Hall.
  
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 13, 4:30 pm:   Moshe Halbertal, Hebrew University, "'If it were not written in scripture, it could not have been said': Rabbinic Daring in Interpretation," The Inaugural Kwartler Family Lecture, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 13, 8:00 pm:   Ivri Lider, Israeli singer/songwriter performance and discussion, CJL Feinberg Café.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 15, 12:00 pm:   Yaron Ayalon, Princeton University, "Plagues, Earthquakes, Famines: The Jews of Ottoman Syria and Natural Disasters," Respondent: Prof. Heath Lowry, Jones 102, Lunch will be served.
  
  
• Friday, Nov. 16, 12:00 pm:   Ariel Furstenberg, Institute for Advanced Study, "Making Talmudic Dynamics Explicit: Amoraic Halakha and Philosophy of Language," Works-in-Progress Seminar (Attendance limited to students and faculty), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 18, 7:15 pm:   "The Sweet Mud," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 28, 4:30 pm:   Glenda Abramson, Oxford University, "Truth and Autofiction: Hebrew Writing in Palestine During the First World War," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Dec. 2, 7:15 pm:   "Three Mothers," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 3, 4:30 pm:   Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College/Princeton University Visiting Professor, "Seeking the True Urim and Thumin: Christian Hebraism and the Limits of Scripture," Works-in-Progress Seminar (Attendance limited to students and faculty), 203 Scheide Caldwell.
  
  
• Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:00 pm:   Gidon Bromberg, Director of EcoPeace/Friends of the Middle East and 2007 Yale World Fellow, "Solving Intractable Problems: Lessons Learned from Environmental Peace Efforts in the Middle East," Frist 302.
  
  
• Thursday, Dec. 6, 4:30 pm:   Deborah Hertz, University of California San Diego, "Was Conversion Emancipation or Racial Suicide? Using Nazi Archives to Write Jewish History," The Faber Lecture, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Dec. 7, 12:00 pm:   Alotibi Suleiman, University of Riyadh, "Modern Hebrew Studies at Riyadh University in Saudi Arabia," Talk will be in Hebrew, 023 Robertson Hall.
  
  
• Wednesday, Dec. 12, 8:00 pm:   Simi Chavel, Princeton University, "How is a savior made? Hints in the story of the birth of Moses," Talk will be in Hebrew, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Dec. 14, 12:00 pm:   Jenna Weissman Joselit, Princeton University Visiting Professor, "'Good Stuff': America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments," Works-in-Progress Seminar (Attendance limited to students and faculty), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.