September 7, 2008
David Weinstein, Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University Exile and Interpretation

October 26, 2008
Laura Lieber, Professor of Religion, Duke University
You have been skirting this hill long enough! : History and convenventionality in Yannai’s Piyyut for Deut.2

November 10, 2008                                                                                                                                              Saul Friedlander, Club Professor of Holocaust Studies, UCLA                                                                The “Historicization” of National Socialism in Perspective

November 16, 2008
Omer Bartov, Professor of European History and German Studies, Brown University
Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide

December 7, 2008
Karen Kletter, Assistant Professor of History, Methodist University
Politics, Prophecy and Jews: The Destruction of Jerusalem in Anglo-Norman Historiography

January 18, 2009
Magda Teter, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of History, Wesleyan University
The Politics of Sacrilege and the Jews in Post-Reformation Poland

February 8, 2009
Shmuel Feiner, Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
Seductive Science and the Emergence of the Secular Jewish Intellectual

March 1, 2009
Thomas Meyer, Dubnow Institute for Jewish History & Culture, University of Leipzig                  How to Write the History of Weimar Jewish Intellectuals: Two Studies about Julius Guttman, Leo Strauss, and Alexander Altmann

March 31, 2009, 4PM
Rabbi David Ellenson,
Rabbi Hayim David Halevi on Christianity and Christian-Jewish Relations

April 12, 2009                                                                                                                                                    Steven Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University                                                                                                                                                              Isaac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow and the Writing Life: Fame, Oblivion, Friendship, and Rivalry

April 19, 2009
Motti Inbari, Brandeis University
Religious Zionism and the Temple Mount Dilemma

The seminars are at 3:00 p.m. at The Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke University, located at 1415 Faber St. at the corner of Campus Drive and Swift Avenue.

Additional events may be announced, so please check the Web site often. If you wish to be placed on the seminar list, please contact: Sandra_Greene@unc.edu