2007 - 2008

Public Lectures 2007-2008

Icons Beyond the Border: Why do we Love (Hate) Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss....?
by Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Tuesday, October 2 at 6 p.m.
Popper Room, Monument Building

Austria, Habsburg Jewry and the Central European Heritage: Lessons for Today's Europe?
by Steven Beller
Tuesday, October 9 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

Denial or the Liberty of Identification? Can the Denial of Jewish
Identity Form Jewish Literature?
by György Vári
Tuesday, November 13 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

Influence of Reform of Judaism in Poland till the Holocaust
by Michal Galas, Jagiellonian University
Tuesday, November 27 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

The "New" Hebrew Poetry and the Hebrew "National Poet"
by Dan Miron, Columbia University
Tuesday, December 11 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

From the Palace in Cairo to the Synagogue in Fustat: In Search of Lost Egyptian Archives
by Marina Rustow, Emory University
Tuesday, January 29 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

Hide and Seek:
Transformations of photo and film in Post-Holocaust Art
by Zsófia Bán
Tuesday, February 12 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

The Paradoxical and Strange Political Behavior of American Jew
by Zvi Gitelman
Tuesday, February 26 at 6 p.m.
Gellner Room, Monument Building

Boundaries of Democracy
by Tomy Lapid
Former Minister of Justice and Head of the Israeli Liberal Party "Shinui"
Tuesday, February 27 at 5.30 p.m.
Auditorium

Theodor Herzl: An Austro-Hungarian Story
by Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuesday, March 11 at 6 p.m.
Popper Room, Monument Building