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May 2013 events at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies

The 2013 Charles Michael Lectures
Monday, May 6, 2013, 12:00pm
Bldg. 360 - CCSRE Conference Room
Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of History and Chair, The Catholic University of America
Capitalism and the Jews
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 7:00pm
Co-sponsored and presented by the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of History and Chair, The Catholic University of America
Capitalism and the Jews
(Free! Advanced reservations required: Call 415.292.1233 or Email Arts@jccsf.org)
Jews have been a conspicuous presence in the history of capitalism, both as symbol and in reality. Jerry Muller, an expert in the history of capitalism, explains the disproportionate success of Jews in capitalist economies and why anti-capitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:00pm
Margaret Jacks Hall - Terrace Room (426)
Louis Newman, Carleton College and Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jewish Perspectives on Forgiveness: The Interplay of Justice and Mercy

Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:15pm
Levinthal Hall - SHC
Jean Naggar, author of Sipping from the Nile, my Exodus from Egypt.
In her memoirs, Naggar recalls the lost world of her childhood as daughter of two prominent Sephardic Jewish families, a world that came to a dramatic end in 1956 with the Suez Crisis that scattered the Jewish population of Egypt far and wide. Sipping from the Nile was a finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards in both the memoir and narrative nonfiction categories.
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:00pm
Bldg. 360 - CCSRE Conference Room
Aryeh Cohen, Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature, American Jewish University
Justice, Wealth, Taxes: A View from the Perspective of Rabbinic Judaism
Co-sponsored with the Department of Religious Studies

Co-sponsored Events:

The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies presents:
Friday, May 3, 2013 12:00pm
Encina Hall Central -CISAC Conf. Room (2nd floor)
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965
John Connelly, Professor of History, UC Berkeley
RSVP required by 5/1, here.

The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies presents:
Friday, May 24, 2013 12:00pm
Bldg. 360 - CCSRE Conference Room
Kishinev¹s Pogrom in Mythology, and History: The Transmutation of the 1903 Riot in Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Politics, and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (pre-circulated paper here)
Steve Zipperstein, The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
RSVP required by 5/22, here.