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2006-07 Endowed Lectures
All Endowed Lectures are free and open to the public
January 22, 2007
Kresge Auditorium
The Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture
Amos Oz, Author
Israel: Between Love and Darkness (video)
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February 27, 2006, 8pm
Building 370, Room 370, Main Quad
The Aaron-Roland Lecture in Jewish Studies
Nathan Wachtel, Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, Collège de France
Faith and Memory: Crypto-Judaism, Iberian Inquisitions, and the Emergence of Totalitarianism
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May 6, 2007 8pm
Building 200, room 002
May 7, 2007 9am - 4:30pm
Tresidder - Oak West
The Shoshana and Martin Gerstel Conference
Fund Symposium
Barbara Mann, Tony Michels, Deborah Dash Moore, Aron Rodrigue, Joachim Schloer,
Sarah Stein and Steven Zipperstein
Jewish Culture and Modern Cities (online Video)_
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May 17 2007, 8pm
Tresidder - Oak West
May 18 2007, 12 Noon
Building 60, Room 61H
The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series
Michael C. Steinlauf, Associate Professor of History, Gratz College
Hope and Fear: Y. L. Peretz in 1905 (in English- online video)
Building the Warsaw Museum of the History of Polish Jews (in Yiddish- online video)
Recent Endowment Fund lecturers have included Leon Wieseltier, Raul Hilberg, Robert Alter, Jonathan Frankel, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Meir Shalev, A.B Yehoshua, Elisheva Carlebach, Ruth R. Wise, David Berger, Isaiah Gafni, Anita Shapira, Kathryn Hellerstein and Derek Penslar.