The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, Oct. 28.
Our guest is Professor Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland. She will present “Jews and Other Germans: The Case of Moravia, 1848-1938.”
paper available JSS – Rozenblit
2012-2013 Schedule
October 28, Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland, Jews and Other Germans: The Case of Moravia, 1848-1938
November 11, Shaul Magid, Indiana University, Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Spector of Hasidism
November 18, Exile & Interpretation conference, Wake Forest University (see a separate message)
December 2, Rachel Elior, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, topic TBA
December 9, Rabbi Professor David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College, “National Sovereignty, Jewish Identity and the ‘Sake of Heaven’: The Impact of Residence in Israel on Halakhic Rulings on Conversion”
January 27, Zohar Maor, Bar-Ilan University, Max Brod
February 10, Tamar Merlin, Tel-Aviv University, ”The Secret Which Makes a Hero of the Weak”: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Prose Fiction
April 7, Gail Sherman, Reed College, topic (in American Jewish literature) TBA
April 28, Louise Hecht, Palacký University, Olmütz, Jewish schools and on Jewish history in the Prague Haskalah