2004-2005 Events Calendar

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Fall 2004-2005: October 21st at 2:00pm, Wallenberg Hall

The Dag Nachash: A Famous Rap Band from Israel

Coffee and conversation about rap and hip hop music in Israel

Listen to The Sticker Song (one of the most popular songs today in israel)

Fall 2004-2005: October, 28th 9:00am--Orli Castel Bloom, Author

Considered one of the most talented Jewish writers of her generation, Orly Castel-Bloom has published five novels and four short-story collections, and received the 1990 Tel Aviv Prize for Literature for Where I Am. Her latest novel, Human Parts, follows three characters through the worst winter Israel has ever seen from an unprecedented number of terrorist attacks, and celebrates the power of the human spirit in the face of disaster. She will speak about "Living and Writing in an Uncertain Reality" and "Ambiguous identity of the modern Jew in Israel and abroad"

For more on Castel-Bloom go to: Hebrew at Stanford Book Club

Winter 2004-2005: February 16, 2005-- Zali Gurevitch, Sociology Professor and Poet -- 12:00 pm. Building 240, room 101

Gurevitch is a professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Hebrew University. He has published four volumes of poetry, the latest of which is Hevel ("The Book of the Voice"). He has translated several modern American poets into Hebrew and lectures in Israel and abroad on many topics, including anthropology of the Israeli/Jewish place, language and culture. He will be a guest in the "Land and Literature" class.

Winter 2004-2005: February 15, 2005 -- Idan Recihel Project (Black History Month) -- 8:00 pm. Kresge Auditorium

After reading in class in Hebrew about Ethiopian Jews the students will have an opportunity to listen to Ethiopian Israeli music. An interview with Idan Reichel will be videotaped for our web site (with Hillel.)

Winter 2004-2005: March 2nd: Movie Screening: Purity and Conversation with the producer of the film, Amit Breuer

(With Professor Charlotte Fonrobert, the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender)

The movie "Purity" includes a rare and special look into the world of Jewish religious married life and sexuality, a topic which has hardly been documented: The story of a family purification ritual, a hidden path of struggle for religious women in the framework of strict, masculine religious law that shapes the life of a couple and female sexuality. The story of a subtle female rebellion within the religious world, expressed through the personal point of view of the director Anat Zuria, and the other women in the film, her friends Natalie, Katie and Shira. Their openness to the camera breaks a profound taboo of silence rooted in two thousand-year-old laws and contemporary social pressures.

Winter 2004-2005: March 10th: SAVYON LIEBRECHT - Author

Savyon Liebrecht (b. 1948, Munich, Germany) was born to Polish Holocaust survivor parents who immigrated with her to Israel soon after her birth. Although she does not possess memories of the European genocide, her father's, whose first wife and daughter perished there, dwell within her and need to bud out. It is sagacious to reflect that Liebrecht is one of the few Israeli women novelists writing on this topic and thus her corpus inevitably involves questions of gender. She writes novels, stories, television scripts and plays. She studied Philosophy and Literature at Tel Aviv University and began publishing in 1986. In 1987 she received the Alterman Award for her first short story collection "Apples from the Desert" (1986), and twice she has been awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Literature.

Savyon Liebrecht will speak with the Hebrew students about "Post-Holocaust Identity in Hebrew Literature."

Spring 2004-2005: Donny Inbar, Former Caltural Attache--"The Many Faces of Israel in Film"

Over the past two decades, Donny Inbar, has directed plays, taught, translated, delivered lectures, and worked in newspaper and radio in Israel, the UK, and the USA. Donny's translations into Hebrew include works by Ibsen, Vonnegut, Roth, and Marlowe.