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Taub Center Speakers Program 2005-2006

Fall 2005

September 29

Gaza Withdrawal and After: Implications for Israel, Palestine and the Middle East
Ya'akov Bar-Simon, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Institute
Samuel Heilman, CUNY Graduate Center
Khaled Fahmy, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Moshe Shokeid, Tel Aviv University
Ronald Zweig, Chair of TaubCenter for Israel Studies, NYU

Sponsored by the Taub Center for Israel Studies, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Bronfman Center for Jewish Life and the Middle East Dialogue Group

December 6

Women in Zones of Conflict: Power and Resistance in Israel
Tami Amanda Jacoby

Spring 2006

February 2

The Pope, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine and Jewish Orphans after the Holocaust
Michael Marrus, University of Toronto. Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies

A joint event of Taub Center, The Program in Religious Studies and The Catholic Center.

February 26

Yiddish Studies: Towards a 21^st Century Mandate
Keynote Address by Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Performance Studies, NYU
Pilim beleylot Metula (Elephants on Metula’s Nights)
Performance by Sala-Manca: Based on texts by the Yiddish Poet Avraham Sutzkever, “Pilim beleylot Metula” features video, digital slides, films, animation, and two voices in Yiddish and Hebrew.

This event is part of a Graduate Student Conference Yiddish / Jewish Cultures hosted by the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU and sponsored in part by the Taub Center and GSAS.

February 28

Ethiopian Traditions and Israeli Judaism
Rabbi Sharon Shalom, Bar Ilan University, Israel. 

This is a joint event of Taub Center and Shalhevet: Orthodox Jewish Community at NYU.