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SPRING 2007 SCHEDULE: February 6, Samuel and Dorothy Frankel Memorial Lecture: Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor and Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University"I Have Not Told Half of What I Saw": On Reading Isaac Rosenfeld. Russell House, 8 pm
Essayist and novelist Isaac
Rosenfeld was considered during his brief lifetime (he died at the age of
38, in 1956) among the most promising of American Jewish writers. Coming of
age in Chicago with his best friend, Saul Bellow, Rosenfeld was thought at
first to be the better writer, and much of Bellow's work (Seize the Day,
Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift) touches on, in one way or another,
their intense, complex lifelong friendship. Prof. Steven J. Zipperstein, a
leading historian of modern European Jewry, has just completed a
biographical study of Rosenfeld based on extensive use of unpublished
sources, including many thousands of letters, and six unpublished novels.
In this lecture, Prof. Zipperstein will read from the manuscript, and
discuss his work on Rosenfeld in the context of the larger framework
of biographical study, and American Jewish cultural history.
February 20, Yeal Hadya, "Love is a Four Letter Word: How My Life Changed My Writing and My Writing Change My Life," the Russell House, 8pm This is a lecture in Four Parts. The first part will concentrate on the themes of Innocence, Insecurity and Inspiration. In this part Hedaya will speak about how she missed being 25, heartbroken and unemployed in NYC. In the second part Hedaya will refer to her book Housebroken and talk about how she learned that writing and men are hard work. In the third part, "Women are Not From Venus, Men Are Not from Mars," Hedaya will talk about love and her best selling novel Accidents. In the last part Hedaya will talk about Being Taken Seriously : A Journey From Hyper activeness to Hyperrealism and her attempt to write the Great Israeli Novel, Eden. Segments from Hedaya's writing to the Israeli TV series In Therapy whose rights were recently sold to HBO will be screened. February 15, RING FAMILY JEWISH MUSIC CONCERT SERIES: The Tafilait Ensemble, Crowell Concert Hall, 8pm, Free admission The Tafilait Ensemble is a young Israeli ensemble dedicated to cross-cultural music-making. They are a mixture of Israeli world music, radical Jewish music, folk singers, rockers and more.
February 26,
RING FAMILY JEWISH MUSIC CONCERT SERIES: Cantorial Splendor,
Crowell Concert Hall, 7pm. Free
Admission
Classic Ashkenazic liturgical
music and other Jewish vocal genres performed by Cantors Perry Fine, Joel
Caplan, Lorna Wallach Kalet, and accompanied by Karina Bruk, piano.
March 29, Eyal Chowers, Tel Aviv University, "The Zionist Maze: Language, Tradition, and Democracy", 4:15, location PAC 002 April 12, Peter Mark, Wesleyan University, "Trading Swords for Ivory: Jewish Merchants in 17th-century West Africa." PAC 422, 4:15 April 15,
RING FAMILY JEWISH MUSIC CONCERT SERIES: Mixing it Up: Adventures in Yiddish Swing,
Crowell Concert Hall, 4pm. Free
admission April 17: Hasia Diner, New York University, "Fitting Memorials: American Jews Confront the Catastrophe, 1945-1962." PAC 002, 4:15 pm. April 30: Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto, "Israeli History: Between Myth and Counter-Myth," PAC 001 May 3, RING FAMILY JEWISH MUSIC CONCERT SERIES: Gershon Veroba: Jewish Orthodox Pop ,Crowell Concert Hall, 8pm. Free Admission Gershon Veroba presents a concert of up-tempo, audience-friendly songs in the tradition of Jewish Orthodox popular music, some pieces based on Rock and Roll and some originals.
FALL 2006 SCHEDULE: September 28 (Th): David Biale, "From Blood Libel to Blood Community: Self-Defense and Self-Assertion in Modern Jewish Culture", PAC 002, 4;15 pm Contemporary Israeli Voices Series 2006: October, 10 (Tue): Poetry Reading by Agi Mishol, an Israeli poet, and by Lisa Katz, her English translator at the Russell House, 8pm October 19 (Thursday) and October 21 (Saturday): Bernard Timberg, media studies scholar, “Why Jews Laugh at Themselves: The Case of Larry David:” October 19 (Th.), 8pm, 001 PAC and October 21 (Sat), Cinema, Center for the Arts, 4pm : screening of different episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to be followed by a presentation with audience participation. October 21 (Saturday): “Institutional Censorship and Self-Censorship in a Time of War: A Reading of the Play ‘My Name is Rachel Corrie:’” World Music Hall, Center for the Arts, 8pm October 24 (Tue): Author Alon Hilu will talk about his book Death of a Monk, a homosexual interpretation of the Damascus blood libel of 1840 at Russell House, 8pm October 30 2006 (Mon): Movie Screening: Out of Sight, a movie screening and a talk with director Dani Syrkin, Goldsmith Family Cinema, 7:30pm
November 14 (Tue) :Amir
Gutfreund, "Writing about the Holocaust with Humor," the winner of the
2003 Sapir Prize for Literature, will talk about his book November 30 (Th): Liz Magnes, the Israeli jazz pianist will give a concert she is calling “Ancient Melodies and Modern Jazz.” This unique performance combines melodies and rhythms of Medieval Jewish oriental prayer music, Spanish Ladino, Arabic Maqam with modern Israeli pop and traditional American standards. Russell House at 8pm PAST EVENTS IN JEWISH STUDIES from Spring 2003-Spring 2006
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