FALL EVENTS 2008

• Sunday, Sep. 7:   Conference-"Political Hebraism: Jewish Sources in the History of Political Thought," Sunday-Tuesday, September 7 - 9, Frist 301. [Open only to pre-registrants.]
  
  
• Monday, Sep. 15, 7:30 pm:   "The Shop on Main Street," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Sep. 17, 4:30 pm:   Ronit Matalon, Haifa University, “Out of Place, Inside Time: On Immigration and Writing”, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Sep. 18, 4:30 pm:   Baruch Schwartz, Hebrew University, "The Sabbath in the Torah Sources," Robertson Hall Bowl 2, WWS.
  
  
• Monday, Sep. 22, 7:30 pm:   "The Boat is Full," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Sep. 23, 4:30 pm:   Mark Cohen, Princeton University, "Medieval Islamic Society and Legal Change in Maimonides’ Code of Jewish Law," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Sep. 24, 4:30 pm:   Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University, "Recovery from Traumas: A Poetry Reading and Talk by the Israeli Poet Hamutal Bar-Yosef," 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Sep. 28, 7:30 pm:   "Life is Beautiful," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Oct. 12, 7:15 pm:   "Saint Clara" Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 13, 7:30 pm:   "Fateless," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Oct. 17, 12:00 pm:   Eran Kaplan, Princeton University, "Avodah Ivrit (Hebrew Labor): A Twenty-First Century Perspective," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Monday, Oct. 20, 7:30 pm:   "And the Fifth Horseman is Fear," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Saturday, Oct. 25, 8:00 pm:   "A Touch Away" Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 3, 7:30 pm:   "Enemies, A Love Story," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 6, 4:30 pm:   Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College, "Finding ‘The Lost’: Time, Memory, and History in One Family's Story," Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture, 219 Aaron Burr Hall.
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 9, 1:00 pm:   Conference, Nov 9-11, 2008, "Rabbinic Literature and the Material Culture of Late Roman Palestine," See event link on Judaic Studies home page for times & locations.
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 9, 7:15 pm:   "Jellyfish" Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 10, 4:30 pm:   Yossi Klein HaLevi, Shalem Center in Israel, "Israeli Society and Politics After the Gaza Withdrawal," Robertson Hall, Bowl 2, WWS.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 10, 7:30 pm:   "Europa, Europa," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Nov. 14, 12:00 pm:   Michael Fishbane, University of Chicago, Princeton University Visiting Professor, "Midrash, Liturgical Poetry (Piyyut), and the Formations of Rabbinic Epic," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Nov. 16, 7:00 pm:   "Amoz Oz", Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 17, 7:00 pm:   Michael Walzer and William Kristol, "Should Jews be Democrats or Republicans? A Conversation with Michael Walzer and William Kristol" Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought, (poster), Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 17, 7:30 pm:   "Schindler's List," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 19, 4:30 pm:   Symposium, "Civil Society - A Hidden Component in Israeli Society," Dodds Auditorium, WWS.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 20, 4:30 pm:   Samuel Kassow, Trinity University, "Who Will Write Our History," Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture, Robertson Hall Bowl 1 WWS.
  
  
• Saturday, Nov. 22, 8:00 pm:   "The Lemon Tree" Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 24, 7:30 pm:   "Gloomy Sunday," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 1, 12:00 pm:   Joshua Kun, University of Southern California, "The Treasure Hunt of Tradition: Re-visiting the Archives of Jewish-American Music," McCosh40.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 1, 4:30 pm:   Joshua Kun, University of Southern California, "And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl: Music, Memory, and the Politics of Jewish-American History," Lapidus Family Fund for American Jewish Studies Lecture, James Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 1, 7:30 pm:   "Sunshine," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Dec. 3, 4:30 pm:   "Israel and Palestine at a Crossroad," Panel with Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al-Qus University in Palestine, Dan Kurtzer, Princeton University, and Itamar Rabinovitch, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS.
  
  
• Friday, Dec. 5, 12:00 pm:   Lital Levy, Princeton University, "Israel, Interrupted: When Arabs Write Hebrew and Jews Write Arabic," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Monday, Dec. 8, 7:30 pm:   "Because of that War," Holocaust Film Series, East Pyne 010.