SPRING EVENTS 2009

• Friday, Feb. 6, 12:00 pm:   Karen Grumberg, University of Texas in Austin, "Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature," Luncheon Talk - reserved for Princeton students and faculty only, 203 Scheide Caldwell.
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 11, 4:30 pm:   Israel Knohl, Hebrew University, "'These are Your Gods, O Israel' (Ex. 32:4) - New Light on the Golden Calf Story," 1879 Hall Room 140. (Limited to faculty and student attendance)
  
  
• Thursday, Feb. 12, 4:30 pm:   W. Michael Blumenthal, Director of Berlin's Jewish Museum, The Biderman Lecture, "Germany and the Jews: From Anti-Semitism to Philosemitism", East Pyne.
  
  
• Sunday, Feb. 15, 7:15 pm:   Israeli Film Series, "Waltz with Bashir," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Feb. 16, 4:30 pm:   Sarah Jones Nelson, Princeton University, "The Fragility of Truth and Other Inescapable Facts," Lewis Library 120.
  
  
• Tuesday, Feb. 17, 4:30 pm:   David B. Starr, Hebrew College, "On the Centennial of a Centennial: Solomon Schechter Reads Abraham Lincoln," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 18, 7:30 pm:   Israel Film Series, “Sallah," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 25, 4:30 pm:   Ruth Gavison, Hebrew University, "Jews and Israelis, Issues in Membership in the Jewish Religion, the Jewish People and the Jewish State," Kwartler Family Lecture, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Feb. 27, 12:00 pm:   Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University Society of Fellows, "Zohar Criticism in Early Modern Venice: The Case of Leon Modena," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Friday, Feb. 27, 1:30 pm:   Ilan Sheinfeld, "From Modernism to Post Modernism in Israeli Poetry," Talk will be in Hebrew, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Sunday, Mar. 1, 7:15 pm:   Israeli Film Series, "Children of the Sun," McCormick 101.
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 3, 4:30 pm:   Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan/Institute for Advanced Study, "Perspectives on the Shoah in the USSR: Germans, 'Collaborators,' Jews, and the Soviet Government," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 10, 4:30 pm:   Yoram Peri, Tel Aviv University, "Morality and Power in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 11, 7:30 pm:   Israel Film Series, "Siege," 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Friday, Mar. 13, 12:00 pm:   Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University/Institute for Advanced Study, "Jews Tell Christian Stories: Two Examples from Medieval Germany," (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Mar. 15, 7:15 pm:   Israeli Film Series, "Three Times Divorced" and "Paradise Lost," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 23, 12:00 pm:   Ruth Diskin, Ruth Diskin Films. Ltd., "Minority Women in Israel as Reflected Through Film," 202 Jones Hall.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 23, 3:00 pm:   Ruth Diskin, Ruth Diskin Films. Ltd, "The Search for Identity in Israeli Cinema," IN HEBREW, McCormick 101.
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 23, 4:30 pm:   Lady Kul El Arab, "Israeli Film Series," In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles with filmmaker Ibstiam Mara’ana, McCormick 101.
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 24, 4:30 pm:   "Tel Aviv at 100: Multiple Perspectives," Todd Hasak-Lowy, University of Florida - "How it Quickly Became: Tel Aviv's Accelerated History", Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, "Architecture from the Sand: A Critical Reflection", McCormick 101 NOTE: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE.
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 24, 7:30 pm:   Film screening of the first two installments of the new Israeli documentary “Tel Aviv” with the creators Modi Bar-On and Anat Zeltser, "Tel Aviv," McCormick 101 NOTE: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE.
  
  
• Thursday, Mar. 26, 4:30 pm:   J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine, "Imre Kertesz's novel Fatelessness," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Mar. 27, 12:00 pm:   Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, History Department, "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Discovers the Jews," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Talk (attendance limited to Faculty and students), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Mar. 29, 7:15 pm:   Israeli Film Series, "Lost Islands," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 31, 4:30 pm:   Adina Hoffman, Essayist and Biographer, "Poet Taha Muhammad Ali and the Palestinian Century," Chancellor Green 105.
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 1, 4:30 pm:   Michael Fishbane, University of Chicago, "Martin Buber’s Spirit of Judaism: Personal Reflections 100 Years Later," The Jeannette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture of Jewish Civilization, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Monday, Apr. 6, 4:30 pm:   Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University, "Iran, Israel, and the U.S.: Dissecting the Triangular Relationship," Bowl 016 Robertson Hall WWS.
  
  
• Sunday, Apr. 12, 7:15 pm:   Israeli Film Series, "Ha'Ulpan," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 22, 4:30 pm:   Werner Eck, University of Köln, Germany, "Rewriting History from Inscriptions: New Perspectives on Hadrian and the Bar Kochba Revolt," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 22, 7:30 pm:   Israel Film Series, "Beaufort," East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 23, 4:30 pm:   Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College and Ismar Schorsch, Jewish Theological Seminary, "The Jewish Fascination with Islam," The 31st Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture, East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, Apr. 24, 12:00 pm:   William Jordan, Princeton University History Department and David Berger, Yeshiva University, "Goals and Challenges in Writing a Joint History of the Jews of Medieval Christian Europe," Friday Lunch Works-in-Progress Seminar (Limited to faculty and student attendance), 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
  
  
• Sunday, Apr. 26, 7:15 pm:   Israeli Film Series, "The Seven Days" (“Shiva”), East Pyne 010.
  
  
• Friday, May. 1, 10:15 am:   David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University/Davis Center Fellow, "A Family Story," 211 Dickinson Hall.
  
  
• Monday, May. 4, 9:30 am:   Conference: "Rabbis and Others in Conversation," Bobst Hall, Room 105.
  
  
• Tuesday, May. 5, 9:30 am:   Conference: "Rabbis and Others in Conversation," Bobst Hall, Room 105.
  
  
• Wednesday, May. 6, 12:00 pm:   Vered Noam, Tel Aviv University, "Stringency in Qumran: a Reassessment," 203 Scheide Caldwell House.