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Spring 2008: Lecture Series
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
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"S. L. Shneiderman and the Commemoration of the Holocaust"
April 15, 2007
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
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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)
Fall 2006
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September
September 13
Film
Jericho's Echo
7:00 PM, Hoff Theater, Stamp Student Union
October
October 12
Avinoam Patt
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Vaterland, Mame Loshn : Jewish DP Youth, Zionist Culture, and Yiddish in Post-war Germany
3:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
October 18
Marc Z. Brettler
Brandeis University
The Historian and the Psalms
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
Arranged in cooperation with the Foundation for Jewish Studies. Please note changed time and date!
October 25
Ted Merwin, Dickinson College
A History of Jewface: Non-Jews Impersonating Jews on the American Stage
4:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
November
November 8
Avi Picard, University of Maryland
Forces of Integration and Segregation in the Relationship
between Ashkenazim and Sephardim in Israel
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
November 16
What do we Really Know about the Dead Sea Scrolls:
A Panel Discussion
5:00 PM, 0140 Holzapfel Hall
Download a program for this event here
Panelists:
Maxine L. Grossman, University of Maryland
Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham
Sarianna Metso, University of Toronto
November 18 and 19
Mini Film Series
Hoff Theater, University of Maryland
All film events $5; $2 students and seniors
(Contact the Hoff for more information.
Dowload a program description here)
Program I. Two Short Films that Break Jewish Taboos
Saturday, November 18, 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 19, 6:00 PM
• Jewboy Australia: 2005. Written and Directed by Tony Krawitz. 52 Minutes. Winner, three AFI Awards. “Best Short Film” Film Critic’s Circle of Australia
• The Pity Card USA: 2006. Directed by Bob Odenkirk. 10 Minutes
Program II. Israel and its Arab Citizens: Three New Documentaries
Sunday November 19 from 1:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Introduction: Shibley Telhami, Sadat Chair, University of Maryland
• October’s Cry Israel: 2006. Directed by Julie Gal. 70 Minutes. Arabic and Hebrew with English Subtitles.
Discussion with director Julie Gal will follow
• The Film Class Israel: 2006. 53 Minutes. Written and Directed by Uri Rosenwaks. Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles.
• O! My Homeland Israel: 2006. 49 minutes. Yanay Ofran and Oren Harman.
December
December 4
Nicholas de Lange, University of Cambridge
S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky) as Novelist in English:
Readings from a New Translation with Discussion
4:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)
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Spring 2006
February
Tuesday February 7
Calvin Goldscheider
Brown University
Demography and the Jews:
Some Comparative Lessons from Jewish History
12:30 PM, Jewish Studies Seminar Room (0142 Holzapfel)
Thursday, February 16
Ranjit Chatterjee
Lado International College
Why Wittgenstein? Why Religion? Why Judaism?
4:00 PM, Jewish Studies Seminar Room (0142 Holzapfel)
Monday, February 27
PERFORMANCE
Jerusalem Lyric Trio
7:30 PM
Washington DC Jewish Community Center
by special arrangement with the Meyerhoff Center
For ticketing information contact DCJCC: 202-518-9400
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March
Thursday, March 2
Michael Sokoloff
Bar Ilan University
Computerized Lexicography:
Jewish Aramaic of the First Millenium, C.E.
4:00 PM, Jewish Studies Seminar Room (0142 Holzapfel)
Sunday, March 12
CONFERENCE
Historiography and the Making of Israel
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For more information, please contact the Center at jewishstudies@umd.edu
Monday, March 27
Elana Shohamy
Tel Aviv University
Language Policy in Israel: Ideology, Practice, Research, and Rights
4:00 PM, Jewish Studies Seminar Room (0142 Holzapfel)
April
Wednesday, April 5
Benny Morris
Ben Gurion University and University of Maryland
Barry Rubin
Global Research in International Relations (GLORIA) Center and American University
The State of Israeli Politics:
A Dialogue between Barry Rubin and Benny Morris
4:00 PM, 2309 Art Sociology
Thursday, April 27
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
United States Institute for Peace and Haifa University
Raising Children under Intractable Political Conflicts and in Social Toxicity: The Israeli-Palestinian Arena
4:00 PM, Jewish Studies Seminar Room (0142 Holzapfel)
Tuesday May 2
A. B. Yehoshua
Renowned and prolific author
From Mythology to History: A Personal Literary Account
4:00 PM, Special Events Room, 6137 McKeldin Library
Co-sponsored with Office of International Programs, University Libraries, and the School of Languges, Literatures, and Cultures
Fall 2005
August
Sunday-Tuesday, August 21-23
WORKSHOP
Early Modern Workshop: Jews and Urban Spaces
0142 Holzapfel Hall
For more information see the website of the Early Modern Workshop
September
Tuesday, September 13
Benny Morris
Ben Gurion University and University of Maryland
New Trends in the History of Israel:
A Conversation with Professor Benny Morris
12:30 p.m. 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Thursday, September 22
Menachem Kellner
University of Haifa
Are Women and Gentiles Created In God's Image?
A Controversial Issue in Jewish Thought
12:30 p.m. 0142 Holzapfel Hall
October
Thursday, October 27
Oleg Budnitskii
Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences; International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies in Moscow
Pogroms and Russian Jewry during the Civil War, 1918-1921
3:30 p.m. Special Events Room, 6137 McKeldin Library
November
Wednesday, November 16
Doris Hamburg and Mary Lynn Ritzenhaller
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Recovering a Legacy: the Rescue of the Iraqi Jewish Archive
4:30 p.m. Special Events Room, 6137 McKeldin Library
December
Tuesday, December 6
Zvi Gitelman
University of Michigan and US Holocaust Museum
The "Jewish-Communist Conspiracy" and the Role of Jews in the Soviet Secret Police
4:00 p.m. 2102 Tydings
Spring 2005
February
Wednesday, February 16
Einat Gonen
University of Maryland
Normative Issues in the Teaching of Hebrew
12:00 p.m., 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Wednesday, February 23
Ruth Clements
Orion Center, Hebrew University and Library of Congress
Isaac the Martyr in Christian and Jewish Cultures of
Martyrdom
12:00 p.m., 0142 Holzapfel Hall
March
Tuesday, March 1
Miriam Isaacs
Meyerhoff Center, University of Maryland
Insider and Outsider Language in Recorded Yiddish Children’s
Stories of the Haredi Community
12:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Wednesday, March 9
Shaye Cohen
Harvard University
The Blood of the Covenant and the Blood of Circumcision
Seminar for Faculty and Students
4:00 PM-6:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Monday, March 14
Nathan Fox
College of Education,
University of Maryland
Sesame Street and the Use of Media in the Arab-Israeli
Conflict
12:00 pm, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
April
CANCELLED!
Tuesday, April 12
Sascha Goluboff
Washington and Lee University
Modern Rites of Ancient Passage:
An Ethnography of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan
Time to be announced, 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Sunday-Monday, April 17 and 18
CONFERENCE
Shaping the
Middle East: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an Age of
Transition: 500-800
2203 Art-Sociology Building (Sunday)
0140 Holzapfel Hall (Monday)
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version of the program, or directions
to campus.
For more information, please contact
the Center at jwst-contact@umd.edu
May
Monday May 2
Paul Scham
Middle East Institute, Washington, DC
Shared Histories: Reflections on the Uses of Palestinian
and Israeli Historical Narratives
4:00 P.M. Room TBA
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October
Wednesday, October 27
Stephan Reif
Cambridge University
The Apocryphal Ben Sira in Jewish Liturgy
12:30 p.m., 0142 Holzapfel Hall
November
Tuesday, November 9
Marsha Rozenblit
University of Maryland
Germans or German-Speaking
Jews?
The Case of the Jews of Moravia, 1848-1938
12:30 p.m., 0142 Holzapfel Hall
Tuesday, November 23
Carole Fink
Ohio State University
Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the
Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1918
12:30 p.m., History Department, Francis Scott Key Hall
Steven Harvey
Bar Ilan University
How Good a Student was the Addressee of Maimonides'
"Guide of the Perplexed"?
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