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Taub Center Speakers Program 2003-2004

Fall 2003

September 14

Taub Inaugural Conference
Facing the Challenges of Statehood: Israel in the 1950’s: Shaping Israel Democracy

Alan Dowty, Notre Dame
The Jewish Component of Israel Foreign Policy

Ronald Zweig, New York University
Negotiating the Truth: Germany and Jews in 1951

Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
Israel and the Biggest Mizrahi Community: The Policy Towards Morocco's Jewry

Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv University
The Land of Isaac: Literary Imagination in a FledglingState - A Retrospective View

Yael Feldman, New York University
Teaching Israeli History: Negotiating the Textbook Controversy

Aron Shai, Tel Aviv University

October 13

East and West in Israeli Culture
Sami Michael, Writer

Spring 2004

February 10

The Crack Between Biography and Bios
Nurit Zarchi, writer and poet

February 17

Performing Israeli Identities: Sexual, Political, Textual

Sexuality and Its Discontents in Yona Wallach's Erotic Poetry
Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, Stern College, NYC

"I am sorry to tell you, but...": On Writing, Desire and 2 Billion Hungry People
Ronit Matalon, University of Haifa

Reclaiming the Jewish Classics in Contemporary Israel
Ruth Calderon, Alma College, Tel Aviv

Moderator: Yael S. Feldman, NYU

March 31

After Babel: Holocaust, Language, and Cultural Pluralism in Israel

Meditating the Holocaust Today: Between Language and Imagination
Savyon Liebrecht
Savyon Liebrecht is the author of seven books of fiction, including Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (1998); A Man and a Woman and A Man (2003).

Space, Language, and Identity: The Case of Arab Literature in Israel
Ayman Agbaria
Ayman Agbaria is a Palestinian-Israeli poet and playwright and is the author of The Bus (drama, 2003) and two books of poetry.  

 Hebrew, Yiddish and English in an AltneuLANGUE - The Hybridity of the Israeli Language

Ghil'ad Zuckermann, University of Cambridge
Ghil'ad Zuckerman is the author of Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (2003).

April 9

Political Turmoil and Creative Process in Israel 2004
Agi Mishol, poet and writer

May 1

Israel and the Middle East
Michael Oren, Shalem Center, Jerusalem