SPRING EVENTS 2006

• Sunday, Jan. 22, 12:00 pm:   Sun-Tues, Jan 22-24, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect.
  
  
• Tuesday, Feb. 7, 4:30 pm:   Minna Rozen, Haifa University, "The World at War - The Family at War: Istanbul Jewry in the Years 1917-1920," 102 Jones Hall.
  
  
• Monday, Feb. 13, 7:30 pm:   "The Grave of Fireflies," Children in War Film Series, East Pyne 111.
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 15, 4:30 pm:   Aharon Shemesh, Bar Ilan University, "Pharisees' Sadduccees' Controversies Over Forbidden Marriages - Once Again," Frist 309.
  
  
• Monday, Feb. 20, 7:30 pm:   "My Name is Ivan," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Tuesday, Feb. 21, 4:30 pm:   Moshe Rosman, Bar Ilan University, The Mytelka Lecture, "Sex Object vs. Mitzva Object: Early Hasidism on Women," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Feb. 23, 4:30 pm:   "The Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America" Conference, Senate Chamber, Whig Hall.
  
  
• Monday, Feb. 27, 7:30 pm:   "Korczak 1990," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 1, 7:00 pm:   Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Hebrew University, "Sacred Realism: Rhetorical and Redactional Strategies in Rabbinic Exempla," (Limited to faculty and student attendance), Religion Department Lounge, 1879 Hall.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 6, 12:15 pm:   David Novak, William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life, Discusses his recent work, "The Jewish Social Contract: An Essay in Political Theology," (Attendance limited to faculty and graduate students), Center for Jewish Life, 70 Washington Rd, Rm 1.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 6, 7:30 pm:   "Life is Beautiful," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Thursday, Mar. 9, 4:30 pm:   Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, "Image History and the Hebrew Book," 106 McCormick Hall.
  
  
• Friday, Mar. 10, 12:00 pm:   Esther Schor, Princeton University, "Emma Lazarus in Babylon: 'Little Poems in Prose," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House. *Note Date Change
  
  
• Sunday, Mar. 12, 7:15 pm:   "How I Learned to Overcome my Fear and Love Arik Sharon," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 13, 7:30 pm:   "Au Revoir, Les Enfants," Children in War Film Series, East Pyne 111.
  
  
• Thursday, Mar. 16, 4:30 pm:   Amir Gutfreund, Israeli author, "Writing with Humor about the Holocaust: The Journey of a Survivor's Child," The Biderman Lecture, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Mar. 19, 9:30 am:   Christian Scholarship and the Jews: A Workshop, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm, 105 Bobst Hall. Workshop poster with details.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 27, 4:30 pm:   John Davis, University of Connecticut, "The Jews of San Nicandro: An Unusual Story of Religious Conversion in Southern Italy in the Mid-Twentieth Century," Chancellor Green 105, Reception to follow in Rotunda.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 27, 7:30 pm:   "Europa Europa," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 29, 4:30 pm:   Menahem Kister, Hebrew University, "Tohu wa-Bohu, Primordial Elements and Creatio ex Nihilo: Jews, Christians, Pagans, and Gnostics," (Attendance limited to faculty and students), Religion Department Lounge, 1879 Hall.
  
  
• Friday, Mar. 31, 12:00 pm:   Martha Himmelfarb, Princeton University, "Sefer Eliyyahu: Jewish Eschatology in Byzantine Jerusalem," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House. *Note Date Change
  
  
• Sunday, Apr. 2, 7:15 pm:   "Purple Lawns," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Apr. 3, 7:30 pm:   "The Last Butterfly," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Tuesday, Apr. 4, 4:30 pm:   Haim Shapira, Bar Ilan University, "Pursuer, Martyrdom, and the Source of Self-defense in Jewish Law," (Attendance limited to faculty and students), Religion Department Lounge, 1879 Hall.
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 6, 4:30 pm:   Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben Gurion University, "The Censor and the Historian," 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Apr. 9, 9:30 am:   "Yiddish: A Diasporic Path to Modernity," International Workshop, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm., 203 Scheide Caldwell House. Workshop Poster with Details
  
  
• Sunday, Apr. 9, 7:15 pm:   "Appelfeld's Table," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Apr. 17, 7:30 pm:   "The Revolt of Job," Children in War Film Series, East Pyne 127.
  
  
• Friday, Apr. 21, 12:00 pm:   Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University, "Forgotten Tongues and Mother Tongues," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Apr. 23, 7:15 pm:   "Akar Bait" (a play in Hebrew), Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Apr. 24, 7:30 pm:   "The Night of the Shooting Stars," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 27, 4:30 pm:   Peter Paret, Institute for Advanced Study, "Triumph and Disaster of Assimilation: The Painter Max Liebermann," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, May. 1, 7:30 pm:   "Under the Domin Tree," Children in War Film Series, McCormick 106.
  
  
• Sunday, May. 7, 7:15 pm:   "The Barbecue People - Hamangalistim," Israeli Film Series, East Pyne 010.