Public Lectures 2017-2018
September 26, 2017
Forgotten Agents of History: The Jewish Territorialist Movement (1905-1960)
Laura Almagor, Central European University
October 10, 2017
The Gantse Megillah: Collecting and Displaying Judaica in 18th-Century Central Europe - The Forgotten History of a Non-Jewish Curiosity
Michael Korey, Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden
November 7, 2017
Narratives of Redemption: The Zionist Imaginary and Afforestation in the Negev
Yoav Galai, Central European University
January 23, 2018
Strictly Orthodox Jewish Future
Daniel Staetsky, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London
February 6, 2018
Hell on Earth: Avigdor Hameiri in Russian Captivity
Peter C. Appelbaum, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
February 20, 2018
Léon Blum: Between the State, Socialism, and Judaism
Pierre Birnbaum, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
March 20, 2018
Film Screening: 1945
Followed by a discussion with the director, Ferenc Török, and the writer, Gábor Szántó