SPRING EVENTS 2004

• Thursday, Feb. 5, 4:30 pm: Shaul Shaked, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "The Rabbi and His Neighbors: Magic Bowls from Sasanian Babylonia and Their Jewish Setting," Co-sponsored with the Department of Religion and PAW, Frist Center, Room 309.  
  
  
• Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7:30 pm: David Berger, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, "Jewish Messiahs: Failures & Hope," Co-sponsored with the Center for Jewish Life, Guyot 10.  
  
  
• Monday, Feb. 16, 7:30 pm: Israeli Film Series, "Channels of Rage,"  Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].  
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 18, 4:30 pm: Gideon Libson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Jewish Law and Islamic Law to the Time of Maimonides," Co-sponsored with the Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Department of Religion, Bowl 1, Robertson Hall WWS.  
  
  
• Thursday, Feb. 19, 12:00 pm: Mark Cohen, Princeton University, Talk in Hebrew about the Geniza, Co-sponsored with the Program in Near Eastern Studies, Jones 102. Lunch will be served
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 25, 4:30 pm: Samuel Gruber, Research Director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and President of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments, "Arise and Build: The Art and Architecture of American Synagogues," Co-sponsored with the School of Architecture and Department Art & Archaeology, McCormick 101.  
  
  
• Thursday, Feb. 26, 4:30 pm: Philip Alexander, University of Manchester, "Targum Lamentations and the Tradition of 'Mourning for Zion' in Judaism and Late Antiquity," Co-sponsored with the Religion Department, East Pyne Room 010.  
  
  
• Sunday, Feb. 29, 10:00 am: Israel Yuval, Haym Soloveitchik, Bill Jordan and Peter Schäfer, "Sefer Hasidim and Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages,"  Jones 202.  
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 1, 7:30 pm: Israeli Film Series, "Aviv,"  Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].  
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 3, 7:30 pm: Sandi DuBowski, Filmmaker, "Trembling Before G-D," Film and Discussion, Co-sponsored with LGBT, Frist 302.  
  
  
• Thursday, Mar. 4, 4:30 pm: Caroline Bynum, Institute for Advanced Study, "The Presence of Objects: Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany,"  East Pyne Room 010.  
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 8, 4:30 pm: Albert Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University, "Prophecy Power: The Pharisees of Ant. 17.41-45," Co-sponsored by Religion and the Program in the Ancient World, 1879 Hall Lounge.  
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 9, 4:30 pm: Adam Sutcliffe, University of Illinois/Institute for Advanced Study, "The Enlightenment, Judaism, and the Paradoxes of Toleration," Co-sponsored with the Program in European Cultural Studies, East Pyne Room 010.  
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 22, 4:30 pm: Dominique Frischer, "The Munificent Baron de Hirsch (1831-1896) & the Resettlement of European Jews in the New World," Co-sponsored with Department of French and Italian, East Pyne Room 010.  
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 23, 4:30 pm: Andrei S. Markovits, University of Michigan, "Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: A Steady Tandem in West European Public Discourse," Co-sponsored with the Program in European Cultural Studies, Bowl 1 Robertson Hall WWS.  
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 23, 7:00 pm: Murray Friedman, Temple University; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, "The Relationship Between African-Americans and Jews," Panel Discussion, McCosh 50. Co-sponsors: Princeton Committee on Prejudice, The Office of Religious Life, The Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, The Center for Jewish Life, The Program in Judaic Studies, The Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Paideia, Common Sense, and Sustained Dialogue.
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 24, 4:30 pm: Noam Zohar, Bar Ilan University, "How to Think about Tiny Embryos: Exploring a Jewish Approach to Stem-cell Research," Respondent- Dr. Melinda Roberts, The College of New Jersey. Co-sponsored with the Center for Human Values, East Pyne Room 010.  
  
  
• Thursday, Mar. 25, 4:30 pm: Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University, "From Oslo to the Hague: The Derailment of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and Its Consequences",  McCosh 28.  
  
  
• Friday, Mar. 26, 2:30 pm: Minna Rozen, University of Tel Aviv/Princeton University, "Memory and History: The Last Chief Rabbi of Thessaloniki",  Humanities Programs Building, Room 103.  
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 29, 7:30 pm: Israeli Film Series, "Mike Brant: Laisse Moi T'Aimer,"  Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].  
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 1, 4:30 pm: Tessa Rajak, University of Reading, UK/Institute for Advanced Study, "Whose Septuagint: Recovering the Greek Bible," Co-sponsored with the Department of Religion and Program in the Ancient World, East Pyne 010.  
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 8, 7:30 pm: Sallam-Shalom! Series, The Sultana Ensemble, An Israeli Moroccan Musical Experience,  Liberation Room in the Carl Fields Center.  
  
  
• Monday, Apr. 12, 7:30 pm: Israeli Film Series, "Jirafot" (Giraffes), Israeli Actress Meital Dahan will be present, Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].  
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 14, 4:30 pm: David Engel, New York University, "Moral Judgment and Holocaust History: Jewish-Nazi Collaboration on Trial", Biderman Lecture, Co-sponsored with the History Department and the Center for Human Values, Bowl 2, Robertson Hall WWS.  
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 21, 4:30 pm: Kenneth Gross, University of Rochester, "The Presence of Shylock,"  Bowl 1 Robertson Hall WWS.  
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 22, 4:30 pm: Hana Wirth-Nesher, Harvard University, "The Accented Imagination: Speaking and Writing Jewish America," The Jeannette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture on Jewish Civilization, East Pyne Room 010.  
  
  
• Monday, Apr. 26, 7:30 pm: Israeli Film Series, "Uri Avnery: Warrior of Peace,"  Betts Auditorium [Architecture Building].  
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 28, 8:00 pm: Michael Chabon, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author, "Golems and Charlotte Russes", The 26th Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture, Co-sponsored with the Program in Near Eastern Studies, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS.