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Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Lunchtime Colloquium Series

Fall 2009 Schedule

September 21, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Birgit Klein (College of Jewish Studies, Heidelberg)
"Jewish women and property in premodern Ashkenaz, or Why did Glikl die poor?"
October 15, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 428
Prof. Jeffrey Shoulson (University of Miami)
"Refinement and Admixtion:  Jews, Alchemy, and Early Modernity"

November 17, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Portrait Room
Prof. Erhard Gerstenberg (University of Marburg)
"Old Testament Faith and Zoroastrianism"

December 3, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room TBD
Prof. Orly Lubin
"What Does a Woman See? Some Thoughts about Space, against Narrative, and on How Feminist Theories Solve the Conflict in the Middle East."



Lunch is provided at all sessions. Food will be served at 12:30 and the lecture will begin at 12:45.
We ask that all attendees please show respect for the guest speakers and refrain from entering/leaving the room during their presentations.

Past Semesters:

Spring 2009 Schedule

February 10, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Rachel Rojanski (University of Haifa)
"Yiddish as a Subculture: The Israeli Case and its American Connections"
March 11, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 607
Prof. Nitsa Ben-Ari (Tel Aviv University)
"Censorship, Self-censorship and Socio-political Pressure in Hebrew
Literature 1948-1970"

April 2, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Baruch Schwartz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"The Decline of the Four-Source Theory: What Went Wrong?"

April 23, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Philip Ackerman-Lieberman
"Seeking Justice: the Social Role of the Jewish Courts of Medieval Egypt"

April 30, 2009
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Fred Lazin
"Jews in American Politics: The case of the struggle for Soviet Jewry"

Fall 2008 Schedule

October 29, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Pierre Bouretz (EHESS, Paris)
"The Lessons of Maimonides"

November 5, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Paul North (New York University)
“Kafka’s Commentaries on Genesis”

November 12, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Nathan MacDonald (St. Andrews University)
"The Meaning of Monotheism in the Hebrew Bible"

December 2, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, 2nd Floor Library
Dr. Esther Gitman
"Rethinking Nazi Croatia: the Case of Jewish Doctors"

December 10, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, 2nd Floor Library
Dr. Bruce Zuckerman
"New Imaging Technologies and Ancient Texts:  Employing Digital Documentation for the Study, Decipherment and Distribution of Texts from the Ancient Near East and Elsewhere."

Spring 2008 Schedule


February 1, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Prof. Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"Swearing In Ceremony: The Police in the Kovno Ghetto, November 1, 1942."

February 26, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 428
Prof. Ed Greenstein (Bar Ilan University)
"The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job"

March 11, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 428
Prof. Zahava Caspi (Ben Gurion University)
"Trends in the Political Theater in Israel"

April 29, 2008
12:30 - 1:45pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 428
Prof. Robert Chazan (New York University)
"At Home in Christian Europe: The Medieval Roots of Modern Jewish Life"