Public Lectures 2012-2013
September 27, 2012
Five Hundred Years of "Daughter Trouble": Jewish Families and Their Daughters in the Ottoman Era Time
Minna Rozen, University of Haifa
November 27, 2012
Mendelssohn, Maimon, and Spinoza on Ex-Communication and Toleration: Dispelling Three Enlightenment Fairytales
Yitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University
December 4, 2012
Lessons on Nation and Nationalism from Wartime Hungarian Film
David Frey, United States Military Academy at West Point
February 5, 2013
Mingled Identities: Jews, Christians, and the Changing Notions of the Other in Early Modern Europe
David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
February 19, 2013
The "Estranged I" in Mendelssohn's (Jewish?) Music
Judit Frigyesi, Bar Ilan University
March 5, 2013
Arab Spring, Israeli Elections: A New Middle East?
Shlomo Avineri, The Hebrew University
March 12, 2013
Wrestling with the Devil: Jews in the Ghettos Confront the Holocaust
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan
May 7, 2013
Forgotten Refugees
Gina Waldman, JIMENA, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa