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2007-08
Israeli Politics and Palestinian Politics: Internal Presures and the Prospects for Peace (with Case Center for Public Policy)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
7:30?9:00 p.m.
Ford Auditorium, Allen Medical Library
A conversation with Abraham Diskin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University and Rex Brynen, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at McGill University
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Navras Jaat Aafreedi
Jewish Contributions to Indian Cinema
Monday, November 19, 2007; 4:30 p.m.
Clark Hall, Room 309, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Free and open to the public
Visitor Parking: Metered lot, corner of Euclid and Ford
Severance Hall garage, entrance on East Boulevard
Navras Aafreedi will discuss the contributions of the native Jewish community, with a particular emphasis on the role of Jewish women, in the early days of the Indian film industry. Today the Indian film industry is the largest in the world producing approximately 800 films annually. In the industry’s infancy, pioneering Jewish women played a crucial role in silent films. These women braved the sigma of acting on stage—a practice prohibited by society at the time for Muslim women. Gradually educated women from other communities entered the acting profession. When sound films were introduced many illustrious Jewish actors lost their careers because they were not fluent in Indian languages.
 Navras Aafreedi received a Ph.D. from the University of Lucknow in India in 2005, and was a post doctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. A book based on his doctoral dissertation on "The Indian Jewry and the Self-Professed 'Lost Tribes of Israel' in India” has been published in electronic form. Aafreedi is one of the few researchers making scholarly contributions in Jewish Studies in the Urdu language, the most popular language among all South Asian Muslims.
Information: 216/368-8961
Sponsored by the Judaic Stdues Program and the SamuelRosenthal Center for Judaic Studies.
2007 Silver Scholar Lecture:
Robert Pinsky
The Popularity of Poetry in the United States
Former U.S. Poet Laureat Robert Pinsky discusses The Favorite Poem Project
Thursday, October 11, 2007
4:30 p.m., Thwing Ballroom (Refreshments starting at 4:00 p.m.)
11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
216/368-8961
Free and open to the public
Book signing immediately following the lecture
Photo by Emma Dodge Hanson
The Silver Scholar Lecture is cosponsored by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University and The Temple Tifereth Israel.
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Robert Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm in response, that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry’s place in the world.
As Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky became a public ambassador for poetry, founding the Favorite Poem Project, in which thousands of Americans — of varying backgrounds, all ages, and from every state — shared their favorite poems. Pinsky believed that, contrary to stereotype, poetry had a vigorous presence in the American cultural landscape. The project sought to document that presence, giving voice to the American audience for poetry.
A prolific author and PBS essayist, Pinsky’s works include Gulf Music, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected oems 1966-1996 (a Pulitzer Prize nominee and Lenore Marshall Award winner), Poetry and the World (National Book Critics’ Circle Award nominee), the best-selling translation of The Inferno of Dante (received Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry), and The Life of David, a lively volume of prose retelling and examining the David stories and scripture.
Listen to Mr. Pinsky read his poem, "Shirt"
More Information on Mr. Pinsky (Academy of American Poets website)
VISITOR PARKING
• Severance Hall, underground Lot: Entrance on East Boulevard
• Adelbert Road Parking:
- Surface Lot (behind Allen Memorial Medical Library)
- Rainbow Babies Hospital Garage
Sari Nusseibeh
"Once Upon a Country--A Palestinian Life"
Sunday, October 14, 2007; 3:30 p.m.
Cleveland Hillel Foundation, 11291 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Sponsored by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies and the Center for Policy Studies at CWRU, the Cleveland Hillel Foundation, Tikkun/Cleveland., and The Church of the Covenant.
Free parking for Dr. Nusseibeh's lecture and the Building Bridges Mural Dedication is available at the Church of the Covenant lot (entrance on Euclid) and Ford Road Garage (entrance on Ford), courtesy of The Church of the Covenant.
Sari Nusseibeh is a Palestinian professor of philosophy and president of the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Dr. Nusseibeh will discuss his book, Once Upon a Country—A Palestinian Life, which he co-authored with Anthony David. Dr. Nusseibeh was the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief representative in Jerusalem from 2001 to 2002, in which role he advocated a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dr. Nusseibeh and Ami Ayalon are the co-founders of The People's Voice, an Israeli-Palestinian civil initiative that aims to advance the process of achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Dr. Nusseibeh received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University and his doctoral degree in Islamic philosophy from Harvard University. From 1978 through 1990, he taught philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank. He has lectured widely in Europe and the United States and has received many prizes and awards for his work.
Photo: Rina Castelnuovo
"One on One with Sari Nusseibeh", Jerusalem Post, 4/24/2007
Visitor Parking:
Metered lot (corner of Euclid Avenue and Ford Road)
Cornell Road Garage (entrances on Mayfield and Cornell Roads)
Severance Hall underground lot (entrance on East Boulevard)
Also of Interest:
Mural Dedication: Building Bridges Mural Program
Sunday, October 14, 2007; 5:00 p.m.
The Church of the Covenant
11205 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
(The Church of the Covenant is immediately adjacent to The Hillel Foundation)
The public is cordially invited to a dedication ceremony for the Building Bridges Mural Program, sponsored by the members of the Inter-Religious Council of Case Western Reserve University. “The Interfaith Mural” by artist Katherine Chilcote will be dedicated at 5:00 p.m., followed by a reception.
Free and open to the public.
(Case Western Reserve University is committed to the free exchange of ideas, reasoned debate and intellectual dialogue. Speakers and scholars with a diversity of opinions and perspectives are invited to the campus to provide the community with important points of view, some of which may be deemed controversial. The views and opinions of those invited to speak on the campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community.)
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Video of Dr. Peck's lecture
March 13, 2007
Abraham J. Peck
"Germans and Jews after the Holocaust:
From Family History to Tikkun Olam"
Free Public Lecture
4:30 p.m. (refreshments starting at 4:00 p.m.)
Clark Hall, Room 309; 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
For more than 15 years, Abraham Peck, the son of survivors, and Gottfried Wagner, the son of Nazi supporters, began an open and honest dialogue in order to understand how their lives and family histories were shaped from their Holocaust experiences. Through the years, the dialogue, which was difficult at times, was expanded to include the children and grandchildren of other Holocaust victims and perpetrators in the hope of starting a world-wide dialogue against genocide and religious, policial, and social injustices
Peck is a pioneer in research the history of Holocaust survivors and Jewish Displaced Persons after 1945. His moher and father were the only members of two large Polish-Jewish families to survive the Holocaust. Peck is the co-author, with Gottfried Wagner, of "Our Zero Hour: German and Jews after 1945--Family History, Holocaust and New Beginnings Historial Memoirs (2006). Gottfried Wagner is the great grandson of composer Richard Wagner, a member of one of German's most influential families that was depply involved in Hitler's work and vision.
Visitor parking: Severance Hall (entrance on East Boulevard); Metered lot--corner of Euclid Avenue and Ford Road. Information: 216/368-8961
March 11, 2007
David Silberklang
"Hanging by a Thread: Reflections on Being a Jew in the Holocaust"
Cleveland Downtown Marriott (Salon D-E, 2nd floor)
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Reception and Dinner: $55.00 (MasterCard/Visa accepted); prepaid reservations required; $55.00 per person (includes reception and dinner).
Valet Parking available.
Dr. Silberklang's presentation is part of the 37th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, being held March 11-13, 2007 at the Cleveland Downtown Marriott. Immediately after Dr. Silberklangs lecture, please join him for a free public paper session on "New Approaches in Teaching the Holocaust" at the Cleveland Marriott (Salon B-C, 2nd floor)
David Silberklang is the Rosenthal Visiting Fellow for Spring 2007 for Case Western Reserve University's Judaic Studies Program. David Silberklang is a senior historian at Yad Vashem, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Studies, a leading scholarly journal on the Holocaust. He is also a lecturer in Jewish History in the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has taught graduate seminars in the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University as well. At Yad Vashem, he is also Series Editor of the survivor memoir series – the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project. In April 2006 he was appointed Israel's representative on the Academic Working Group of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.
Interview with David Silberklang
March 11-13, 2007
37th Annual Scholars Conference
on the Holocaust and the Churches
(Founded in 1970 by Franklin Littell and Hubert Locke)
Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center
127 Public Square
Cleveland, Ohio
The Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, founded in 1970 by Franklin Littell and Hubert G. Locke, is an interfaith, interdisciplinary and international organization. It is the oldest continuing meeting of its kind in the world and was the first to bring together Jewish and Christian scholars. This academic conference will feature presentations, panel discussions, and keynote addresses by scholars from around the world.
Hosted by the Samuel Rosenthal Center; Host Chair, Peter J. Haas
Sponsored by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, with the generous support of the George F., Stephanie M. and George L. Traud Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleevland. In collaboration with Saint Joseph's University and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Earlier this year. . .
David Silberklang, Ph.D.
Public Lecture: "What Don't We Know? Unanswered Questions from the Holocaust"
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
4:00 p.m. reception; 4:30 p.m. Presentation
1914 Lounge, Thwing Center, 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Information: (216) 368-8961
Much has been researched, analyzed, and written
about the Holocaust in the last 60-plus years. The Holocaust is, arguably, the most extensively researched event in history. Yad Vashem's library alone contains some 110,000 book titles and many thousands more articles relating to the subject. Indeed, many may wonder if there is any major aspect of the Holocaust that remains to be studied. Based on the extant voluminous scholarship on the Holocaust, this talk argues that there are many outstanding fundamental issues to be researched and explained, enough to keep the scholars and thinkers busy for many years to come. We have barely scratched the surface.
Cleveland Jewish News Article on Dr. Silberklang's Februrary 7th lecture.
Dr. Henry F. Knight, Jr.
Public Lecture
Wednesday, November 8, 2006; 4:30 p.m., Clark Hall 206; 11130 Bellflower Road
"Canopies of Hospitality in and for a Wounded World:
Midrashic Imagination and Post-Shoah Faithfulness"
Free and open to the public
For people committed to the conventional faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holocaust represents a fundamental challenege to the convenantal character of creation and the role of any people who understand themselves to be stewards of creation's convenantal ways and representatives of God's intentions for human responsibility and faithfulness. Drawing on the resources of midrash, Dr. Knight will explore how an event like the Shoah challenges people of faith to reground themselves in their understandings of their traditions in a theology of creation capable of embracing the other as other without losing one's own identity in the process.
Henry F. Knight, a Christian minister, is Director of the Council for Holocaust Education in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a joint venture of educational outreach to the wider Tulsa community of the Jewish Federation of Tulsa and the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. He was formerly on the faculty of The Univeristy of Tulsa where for twelve years he served as University Chaplain and Associate Professor of Religion before assuming his most recent poistion there as Applied Associate Professor of Hermeneutic and Holocaust Studies. Dr. Knight also served as Chaplain and Associate Professor of Religion at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio from 1979 to 1991. Knight is the author of Celebrating Holy Week in a Post-Holocaust World (2005), Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World (Greenwood Press, 2000; reissued in paperback by Wipf and Stock, 2006), and co-editor with Marci Sachs Littell of The Uses and Abuses of Knowledge (1997).
Bruce Feiler
Public Lecture
Sunday, September 10, 2006, 8 p.m.
Matlz Museum of Jewish Heritage
2929 Richmond Road
Beachwood, Ohio
Telephone: 216/593-0575
Tickets $22.50 for Maltz Museum Members/$25.00 for non-members
In partnership with the Samuel Rosenthal Center of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, John Carroll University, Notre Dame College, with the sponsorship of Laura and Alvin Seigal College and Ursuline College.
Special appearance in conjunction with the "Cradle of Christianity: Treasure from the Holy Land" exhibition at the Maltz Museum. Feiler is the author of "Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses and Abraham", and other besting sellers.
Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies
Department of Religion, Dartmouth College
October 3, 2006, 4:30-6 pm
Hartzmark Room
The Temple-Tifereth Israel
26000 Shaker Boulevard
Beachwood, OH
(note location change)
Free and open to the public
Information: 216/368-8961
Public Lecture:
The Merchant of Venice: Shylock in Christian and Jewish Imaginations
The problem of the Jewish presence within Europe has long been addressed in a variety of texts, but The Merchant of Venice is a key text in transmitting and reflecting attitudes toward Jews among European Christians. Not only classical Christian theology, but political issues of nationalism, race, and gender are expressed in the play through its interrogations of body and soul, money and blood, fathers, daughters, and patrimony, marriage and conversion, religious difference and transgendering. Readings of the play have differed widely over the centuries, and variations in modern productions of the play in several different cultural contexts are clues to Jewish and Christian self-understanding. Most striking in those variations are three settings in which Jewishness has been of central concern: the modern German stage, the Yiddish theatre in New York, and the State of Israel. The German stage produced the most antisemitic Shylock, while the Yiddish and Hebrew performances reflect significant developments in the repudiation of antisemitism and affirmation of Jewish identity.
Susannah Heshcel was founding director of the Samuel Rosenthal Center at Case Western Reserve University. She holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She received her PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Colorado College in 2005. Prior to Dartmouth, she taught at Southern Methodist University and held the Abba Hillel Silver chair in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University
Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, and her numerous publications include a prize-winning monograph, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and a forthcoming book, The Aryan Jesus: Christians, Nazis and the Bible (Princeton University Press). She has also edited several volumes, most recently, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust, with Robert P. Ericksen, and Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky, and has written extensively on feminism and Judaism. Several years ago she published a volume of her father’s writings, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel, with a biographical introduction. Prof. Heschel has also written extensively on feminist issues related to Jewish Studies and edited a classic collection, On Being a Jewish Feminist, first published 1983.
Prof. Heschel has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of Cape Town, and has held the Martin Buber visiting professorship in Jewish religious philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. In 1997-98 she was a fellow at the National Humanities Center. Since 1999, Prof. Heschel has served on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Research Center of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In 1992 she spoke on Judaism and the environment at the 1992 UN Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1994 at the UN Conference on Population and Development, in Cairo. She has been a commentator on the Jim Lehrer News Hour and a contributor to The Nation, Dissent, Commentary, and Tikkun magazines.
In addition to her academic work, she has written and lectured frequently on Jewish issues, served for several years as the co-chair of Tikkun, with Michael Lerner and Cornel West, sits on the advisory board of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, and is an enthusiastic life member of the National Council of Jewish Women.
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2005-2006 Events:
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
“Rights to the Land of Israel: Claims and Compromises”
A public lecture by Gideon Shimoni
Rosenthal Visiting Fellow
4:30 p.m.
Clark Hall, Room 309
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Free and open to the public
In his lecture, Professor Shimoni will discuss from an historical perspective the nature of Jewish claims to national self-determination in the Land of Israel/Palestine as expressed over time and across the spectrum of Zionist ideologies. He will examine the various Zionist responses to Palestinian Arab counterclaims, and analyze the record of compromise options up to the present. His presentation is especially timely in view of the current withdrawal of the Jewish settlers from Gaza.Professor Gideon Shimoni is head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively in the field of twentieth century Jewish history, with a particular focus on the history of Zionism and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
His books include Jews and Zionism: The South African Experience 1910-1967 (1980), Gandhi, Satyagraha and the Jews: A Formative Factor in India's Policy towards Israel (1977), The Zionist Organization: Changes in Ideology and Status (1990), Zionist Thought Today: A Selection of Readings (1993), and a seminal volume entitled, The Zionism Ideology (1995), which won the Arnold Wiznitzer Prize of the Institute of Jewish Studies at The Hebrew University. His latest work includes, Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa (2003). Originally from South Africa, Professor Shimoni received his bachelor's degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees from The Hebrew University. He has taught at Hebrew Union College (Los Angeles), the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Jewish Theological Seminary.
For more information, call 216.368.8961.
Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 4:30 p.m.
Silver Scholar Lecture by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
"The Artist Studies the Doctor: A Millennium of Observation"
Yale University School of Medicine and
2005 Silver-Scholar In Residence
The Temple - Tifereth Israel, Cleveland
Ford Auditorium in the Allen Memorial Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
In his lecture, The Artist Studies the Doctor: A Millennium of Observation, Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland will discuss the ways in which artists, down through the centuries, have described and commented on the state of medicine of their time. Through paintings, caricatures, illuminated
manuscripts and other forms of illustration, artists have sometimes praised and sometimes poked fun at the medical profession, its
contributions, its values, and its ethics.
Dr. Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at Yale and has taught courses in bioethics and medical history. He has authored several medical books and has written nine books
of non-fiction including Lost in America: A Journey with my Father. In 1994 he won the National Book Award for How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter.
Sunday, April 10, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion Lead by Professor Zev Garber, Rosenthal Visiting Fellow
"Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ' - One Year Later"
Clark Hall, Room 309; 11130 Bellflower Road
Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, was released one-year ago to capacity audiences in theatres and auditorium across the U.S. and other countries. Prior to the film's release, a groundswell of controversy filled the airwaves and media outlets. Some religious groups protested the film, while others embraced it. Now releasing a re-cut version of the film which eliminates about six minutes of the most graphic and violent portions, Gibson states, "I hope to make my film and its message of love available to a wider audience". But what is the real impact of this film by one of the world's most recognized icons? Professor Zev Garber and six invited scholars will lead a roundtable discussion, which is expected to last from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Articles and Commentary on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" by roundtable invited speakers:
Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 7:00 p.m.
Public Performance: Claudia Stevens
"An Evening with Madame F"
Thwing Ballroom
Free and open to the public
Claudia Stevens will explore the life and death experience of music performance in concentration camps, drawing on survivor accounts including those of Fania Fenelon, who performed in the women's orchestra at Auschwitz. The performance will include actual music played in Auschwitz as well as first-hand accounts. Ms. Stevens is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
For more information, contact Laura Sielen at 368-2414 or laura.sielen@case.edu
Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Public Reception: Meet the Playwright--Omri Yavin
Clark Hall, Room 206
Omri Yavin, a visiting playwright from Israel, currently is Lecturer of Hebrew in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case. His new play, Here Comes Dad, will be presented February 11 - 20, 2005 as part of the Eldred Theatre Drama Series at Case. The play is inspired by the Biblical story of the Sacrifice of Isaac and explores the relationship between a father and son. The Rosenthal Center welcomes the public to this reception in which you may meet the playwright Omri Yavin.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:30 p.m.
Public Lecture, "Rethinking the Problem of Edith Stein: Jew and Catholic Saint"
Zev Garber, Rosenthal Visiting Fellow, Spring 2005
Clark Hall, Room 206
Free and Open to the Public
Professor Garber focuses on the controversy surrounding the religious identity of Edith Stein, a Jewish woman who became a nun, and the intent of the Catholic Church in sanctifying her as a martyr, and the Jewish fear of Christianizing the Shoah (Holocaust). Perspectives using Rabbinical law (Halakhah), Vatican directive, and Israeli Supreme Court ruling will be presented.
More Information on Edith Stein
Wednesday, March 3, 2004; 4:30 p.m., Clark Hall, Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road
Public Lecture: "Editing Life: The Golem Legend in the Biotech Century"
Byron Sherwin, Ph.D.
An internationally renowned Jewish theologian, ethicist and scholar of Jewish mystical traditions, Professor Byron L. Sherwin is the author or editor of 24 books and more that 150 articles and monographs. Dr. Sherwin currently serves as Director of Doctoral Programs and Distinguished Service Professor at Chicago's Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. In 1995, he was awarded the "Officer's Order of Merit" by President Walesa of The Republic of Poland and in 1996 received an honorary Doctor of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Sunday, March 7, 2004, 2:30 p.m., Cleveland Museum of Art; 11150 East Boulevard
Theatrical Performance: "Purim Carnevale"
This theatrical extravaganza is based on the first Hebrew play, "A Comedy of Betrothal" by Leone de Sommi (1525-1590). "Purim Carnevale" deals with issues of Jewish assimilation in what was essentially the cinema or video of the day. Ensemble Ciaramella, modeled on the theatrical musical ensembles of the early 17th century, is joined by singers, actors, and dancers in period costume to present a modern theatrical production based on the work. The piece is directed by Anna Levenstein, a Ph.D. student at Case, and presented with the help of Omri Yavin, and award-winning playwright and scriptwriter, and Case instructor of Hebrew. Co-sponsored by The Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and The Cleveland Museum of Arts. Ticket information: 216.421.7350 or 1.888.CMS.0033
Wednesday, April 21, 2004; 4:30 p.m., Clark Hall, Room 309; 111130 Bellflower Road
Public Lecture: "X-Men as J-Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie"
Lawrence Baron, Ph.D.
Dr. Baron is the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies at San Diego State University. He also is the founder and current president of the Western Jewish Studies Association. He authored a book on the German Jewish anarchist, Erich Muehsam, as well as more that 60 articles on the modern Jewish history. Dr. Baron's current research focuses on the depiction of the Holocaust in recent feature films.
Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 4:30 p.m.
Public Lecture, "International Law and Morality in Armed Conflict"
Amos Guiora, Visiting Professor, School of Law
Clark Hall Room 309
Free and Open to the Public
Click here for more information
Thursday, December 2, 2004 - 7:00 p.m. Strosacker Auditorium
Public Performance, "It Sounds Better in Amharic"
Nephesh Theatre Group: A performance starring Yossi Vassa
Written by Yossi Vassa and Shai Ben Attar
Directed by Shai Ben AttarTranslated by Howard Rypp
Music by Tomer Yosef
Set Design by Adi Katz
Strosacker Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public
(Recommended for audiences 16 years of age and older.)
Sponsored by The Cleveland Hillel Foundation, and the Program in Judaic Studies, the Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, and the Ethnics Studies Program in the College of Arts and Science at Case Western Reserve University.
"It Sounds Better in Amharic" is an autobiographical account of the Vassa's family arduous 435 mile foot journey from Ethiopia to a refugee camp in Sudan followed by the family's emigration to the Holy Land when Vassa was age 10. In this poignant one-man show, nostalgic memories of life in Ethiopia are mixed with hilarious perspectives towards the adjustments that must be made when moving to modern day Israel.
Yossi Vassa began his career as a teenager and put himself through college by selling videotapes of comic routines he had written. He later appeared regularly on the weekly Israeli comedy television show, "Am Yisrael Live" - a show in the tradition of Saturday Night Live.
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