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Judaic studies

Lecture Schedule

Special Lectures and Programs
Fall 2007 and Spring 2008

Wednesday, September 19
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, Donnarumma, Room 245
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Judaic Studies Jewish New Year Celebration
All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend this reception, to sample apples & honey, teglach, and honey cake ... foods associated with the Jewish New Year, and to hear Dr. Umansky's brief explanation of the meaning of Rosh Hashanah and traditions observed by Jews at this time of year.

Mark CohenMonday, October 1
Dolan School of Business Dining Room
7:30 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Mark R. Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University - "Voices of the Jewish Poor in the Middle Ages: Insights from the Cairo Geniza"

 

 

 


Dead Sea ScrollsTuesday, October 16
Dolan School of Business Dining Room
7:30 p.m.
Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence Lecture by Dr. Moshe Bernstein, Associate Professor of Bible, Yeshiva University - "The Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty: What Have They Taught Us? What Can They Teach Us? What Can They Not Teach Us?"

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 24
Quick Center
7:30 p.m.
Jacoby Lunin Humanitarian Lecture
Speaker: Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize winner, columnist and former associate managing editor for The New York Times
Title: TBA
Presented by Judaic Studies in conjunction with Open VISIONS Forum

Monday, November 12
Dolan School of Business Dining Room
7:30 p.m.
Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies
Speaker: Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick C. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies - "G.I. Jews: How WWII Changed a Generation"

MerlefeldMonday, December 3
 Presentation Room, Kelley Center
7:30 p.m.
A poetry reading - "The Journey of a Spiritual Life" - by Merle Feld, poet and author of a spiritual memoir, A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey (SUNY Press, 1999).

 

 

 


RoyahakakianMonday, February 25, 2008
Dolan School of Business
7:30 p.m.
Roya Hakakian - Lecture: "Journey from the Land of No: A Jewish Girl Caught in Revolutionary Iran"

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Dolan School of Business
7:30 p.m.
Samuel Kassow - Lecture: "Between History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum's Secret Ghetto Archive." (Note: Title of this lecture may be changed.)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Barone Campus Center Oak Room
8:00 p.m.
Alon Pinkas, Counsel General of Israel in New York between 2000 and 2004; Adviser on U.S. affairs to past prime minister Ehud Barak (1999-2001); and participated in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations following the Camp David summit of July 2000. Marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, the Bennett Center will sponsor this lecture.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Kelley Center Presentation Room
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Passover Seder Experience

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Elaine Pagels - Second Lecture in Jewish-Christian Engagement

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Holocaust Remembrance Service & speaker, featuring Betty Deutsch, of Fairfield, Conn.

For further information on lectures and other special events sponsored by the Bennett Center, contact Elaine Bowman, Program Manager of the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066 or ebowman@mail.fairfield.edu

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