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MARCH
Documentary Film and Discussion
Tuesday March 3, 2009 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Refusenik (Director/Producer Laura Bialis. 117 min.)
Introduction by Micha Naftlin, National Director of Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
The Hoff Theater, Stamp Student Union
Conference and Films
Sunday March 29, 2009, 11:00 AM-6:30 PM
Italian Fascism and Cinematic Memory:
The Anti-Jewish Race Laws of 1938
Film highlights:
• 11:00 AM-12:45 PM: Concorrenza Sleale (Unlawful Competition) (2001)
• 5:00 PM-6:15 PM: The Tree of Life (2008)
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Art-Sociology Building, Rm. 2309
Sponsor: Department of History
Workshop
Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Teaching with Israeli Film:
Soap Operas, Documentaries and Feature Films in the Jewish Studies Classroom
Holzapfell Hall, Rm. 0142 (Jewish Studies Seminar Room)
APRIL
Lecture
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 4:00-6:00 PM
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
From Europe to the Middle East: Nazi Germany's Arabic Language Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
Holzapfell Hall, Rm. 0142 (Jewish Studies Seminar Room)
MAY
Conference
Sunday May 3, 2009, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Biblical Poetics and Interpretation:
A Conference Honoring Adele Berlin
Art-Sociology Building, Rm. 2309
Co-sponsored with the Department of English
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Lecture
Thursday May 7, 2009, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
Dreyfus Was Not Alone: The Army as Jewish Career in Modern Europe
0142 Holzapfel Hall (Jewish Studies Seminar Room)
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Lunch served/RSVP required
Fall 2008
CONFERENCE
September 21-24
Promoting Jewish Literacy in Educational Settings
An international conference sponsored by:
Bar-Ilan University
The University of Maryland
Yeshiva University
Hebrew Univon College
Adele H. Stamp Student Union Building
View a text or pdf version of the program
CONFERENCE
November 2-3, 2008
Iranian Jewry: From Past to Present
An International Conference
Sponsored by:
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Center for Persian Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Co-hosted by
The Hebraic Section and Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
November 2, Van Muching Hall, University of Maryland
November 3, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
View a simulcast of the University of Marland portion of the events by clicking here.
View a text or pdf version of the program, or download the complete brochure.
More information available at the Roshan Cultural Heritage Center website.
As part of this conference, we are also pleased to present:
CONCERT
November 2, 2008, 8:00 PM
Izra Malakov's Bukharian Jewish Folklore Ensemble in "Jews of the Silk Road: Their Culture and Their Music"
Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
More information at the CSPAC website.
For tickets call 301-405-ARTS or click here to order online.
LECTURE
Professor Maina Chawla Singh (more info)
University of Delhi, India
Monday, November 17, 2008
4:00 PM
"We are not Mizrahi...We are Indian Jews"
Issues of Culture and Identity
in the Indian Jewish community in Israel.
0142 Holzapfel Hall (JWST Conference Room)
Spring 2008: Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 8
Professor Joseph Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Spinoza in the Library of an Eighteenth-Century Sephardic Rabbi 12:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Professor Yosef Kaplan is the Bernard Cherrick Professor of the History of the Jewish People in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University. An expert on the history of the Jews in Spain, the Conversos in post-1492 Iberia, and the western Sephardi diaspora, Professor Kaplan has written several books, most notably From Christianity to Judaism: The Life and Work of Isaac Orobio de Castro (1982); Judíos Nuevos en Amsterdam. Estudios sobre la historia social e intellectual del judaísmo sefardí en el siglo XVII (1996); and An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Western Sephardi Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century (2000). He has also edited several books, including Jews and Conversos: Studies in Society and the Inquisition (1985); Exile and Diaspora: Studies in the History of the Jewish People Presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (1991); Jews and Conversos at the Time of the Expulsion (2001); and Kehal Yisrael: Jewish Self-Rule Through the Ages, vol. 2, The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (2004). He is the author of 92 scholarly articles on Sephardi Jews, Conversos, and the Jews of early modern Amsterdam. His latest work, The Book of the Ymposta, 1622-1639, a critical edition of the minute book of the three Portugese Jewish communities in Amsterdam, will appear very soon.
Thursday, May 1
Professor Michael Brenner, University of Munich: Between Jerusalem and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Master Narratives of Jewish History 4:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Professor Michael Brenner holds the Chair in Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. A historian of the Jews in Germany, he is the author of several books, including The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (1996); After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (1997); and Zionism: A Brief History (2003). He has also edited German-Jewish History in Modern Times (with Michael Meyer, 4 volumes, 1996); In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (with Derek Penslar, 1998); Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (with Vicki Caron and Uri Kaufmann, 2003); and Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe (with Gideon Reuveni, 2006). He is the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the academic year 2007-2008.
Thursday, May 8
Professor Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland: Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Religious Enhusiasm (“Schwärmerei”) 12:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
* All lectures are free and open to the public.
Spring/Summer 2008
Sunday, April 6
“The Women Who Kept the Song: ‘Cochin’ Jewish Women’s Songs in India and Israel ” -- From India to Israel-The Musical Heritage of Cochin. 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Prince Georges Room, Stamp Student Union
For centuries Jewish women along India’s Malabar Coast filled notebooks with music they sang in Malayalam at weddings, community celebrations and rituals. Now they have been painstakingly re-discovered, performed and recorded in Israel, and been the subject of international exchange on the cultures of Hindus, Christians and Jews in India’s vibrant multi-ethnic Kerala region. A unique local and international partnership will present this music and those key to its revival at three DC area events.
Smita Jassal (Anthropologist, Columbia University) ‘Some Motifs in Indian Women’s Folksongs’
Barbara Johnson (Anthropologist, Ithaca College) ‘The Singers and the Songs in Kerala’
Galia Hacco and Venus Lane (Nirit Singers of Israel) ‘The Legacy of Our Grandmothers: Revival in Israel’
Scaria Zacharia (Linguist, Sanskrit University, Kerala, India)
Co-sponsored by the Embassies of India and Israel, University of Maryland Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, Office of International Programs, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and Library of Congress,Asia Division.
August
Conference:
Jewish Education. Sponsored by Bar Ilan University, Yeshiva University, and the University of Maryland.
Thursday, March 13
Professor Ehud Netzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Long Search for King Herod's Tomb: Archaeological Excavations at Herodium, Israel 5:00 PM, 0106 Francis Scott Key Hall
Trained as an architect, Ehud Netzer joined the excavation of the late Yigal Yadin at Masada, and thereafter decided on a career as an archaeologist. He took his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University, joined the Institute of Archaeology there, and enjoyed an extraordinary career as a teacher, excavator, and author. He has trained some of the most successful of the current generation of Israeli archaeologists. A man of prodigious energy, he excavated for many years the most famous sites of King Herod the Great, legendary king and one of the most innovative and prolific builders of the Ancient World. Not only Masada, but Caesarea and Herod’s palaces at Herodium and Jericho number among Netzer’s archaeological achievements. He has lectured and taught at the most distinguished universities worldwide. His many books include beautiful volumes on Masada and Jericho, and most recently the magisterial The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder (2006), a summation of Netzer’s judgements on all of Herod’s projects, including the magnificent Second Temple in Jerusalem. Finally, after many years of searching, he has discovered King Herod’s lost tomb, as he will explain to us in the present lecture.
Thursday, March 27
Professor Emma Maayan-Fannar, Haifa University: Early Jewish-Christian Burial Sites in the Galillee 12:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Spring 2007
February 14
Jeffrey Halper
Coordinator, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
Where is Israel Going After Occupation, Separation, Disengagement, Realignment and Lebanese War?
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
February 28
Chaim Gans
Tel Aviv University
Historical Rights and the Jews' Return to their Homeland
4:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
March 7
Uri Horesh
Georgetown University
Language Policies and Practices of Palestinian Arabs in Israel
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
March 11
Performance
"La Istoria de Purim: Music and poetry of the Jews of Renaissance Italy.” by Ensemble Lucidarium
2:00 PM, Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Theater
March 12
Performance
Jewish Jazz Klezmer Fusion with an Italian Flavor.By Enrico Fink and his Friends.
7:00 PM, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Learn more about the concerts here
March 13
Aaron David Miller
Wilson Center for Scholars
America and the Arab-Israeli negotiations: A U.S.
negotiator Looks Back on the Last Twenty Years
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM, 6137 Special Events Room, McKeldin Library
March 26
Film
Three Mothers: 2006. Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis. 106 Minutes.
Discussion with director Dina Zvi-Riklis will follow.
7:30 PM, Hoff Theater, University of Maryland
March 27
Avner Cohen
Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Israel and Iran:The Nuclear Issue and Prospects for Security and Regional Conflict
12.30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
April 15
Conference:
Personal Stories: S. L. Shneiderman and the Commemoration of the Holocaust
2:00-5:00 PM
McKeldin Library, Rm. 6137. For driving directions, please click here
More on this event
(See video from this conference)
My Parents' Quest
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Warsaw Ghetto Diary of Mary Berg
Susan L. Pentlin, University of Central Missouri
Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story
Rochelle G. Saidel, Remember the Women Institute, New York, NY
Cultural Reclamation in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Miriam Isaacs, University of Maryland
Book Signing and Reception
April 17
Avital Feuer
PhD, York University
Clashes, Conflicts, and Collision of Identities in the Hebrew Class
12.30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
April 24
Shmuel Rephael
Bar Ilan University
Readings from Golgotha and Discussion of the Ladino Cultural Heritage
12.30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
Co-sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
School of Languages, Literature and Cultures Fall 2007
August
August 19-21
Scholars' Workshop:
Jewish Consumption and Material Culture in the Early Modern Period
Co-sponsors: Yeshiva University, Wesleyan University
Keynote Presenation:
Possessions: The Material Culture of Early Modern Italy
Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Sunday, August 19, 6:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel
Conference Program
This event is free, but registration is required. Please contact Professor Bernard Cooperman (301-405-4271) to register or for more information.
August 27-28
Conference:
Jews and Muslims in Islamic Lands: Conflict, Coexistence, Confluence
Arts-Sociology Building, Room 2309
Conference Program
To register for the conference, please contact Ms. Kathy Sciannella at 301-405-4720 or mscianne@umd.edu
For driving directions and walking directions around the campus, please click here.
August 27
Concert:
A Musical Pilgrimage to Iran, with the Roya Ensemble
8:00 PM, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall.
Concert Poster
For more information, please contact CSPAC at 301-405-ARTS or visit their website at http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2007/
Co-sponsored by Center for Persian Studies.
September
September 9
Performance:
Mining Golda: My Journey to Golda Meir will be performed by Tova Feldshuh. 7:30 PM, Ina and Jack Kay Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. For more information, please contact CSPAC at 301-405-ARTS or visit their website at http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2007/
October
October 25-28
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Artist in Residence
Sponsors: Univesity of Maryland Libraries, School of Music, and School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
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Readings: Readings in Russian and English. Book signing will follow. October 25, 10:00 AM, 6137 McKeldin Library
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Film: Spell Your Name. October 25, 8:00 PM
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Conference: October 26, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 6137 McKeldin Library (In cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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Concert: October 26, 8:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,
Dekelboum Concert Hall. For more information, please contact CSPAC at 301-405-ARTS or visit their website at http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2007/
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Film: Stalin's Funeral (followed by book signing). October 27, 1:00 PM, Hoff Theatre
December
December 2-3
Conference:
Global Jewish Languages
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Conference: December 2, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM; December 3, 8:30 AM-1:00 PM
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Concert: Chava Alberstein. December 2, 8:00 PM, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. For more information, please contact CSPAC at 301-405-ARTS or visit their website at http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2007/
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Film: Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing. December 3, 1:00 PM, Hoff Theatre (Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington, Washington Jewish Film Festival)
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