ICA Home  |   Stanford Home   |   Contact Us
taube center for jewish studies

Events Calendar  |  Endowed Lectures  |  Conferences  |  Text and Culture Series  |  Archive

Events > Endowed Lectures

2008-09 Endowed Lectures

All Endowed Lectures are free and open to the public

The Jewish Community Endowment Lecture Fund
David Grossman
, Hebrew author
In conversation with Michael Gluzman,
Professor of Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University
Sunday, November 2, 2008 7:30pm
Kresge Auditorium


THE CLARA SUMPF YIDDISH LECTURE SERIES
Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, Trinity College


Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:00 noon
Kehilla Hall, Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center
Hillel at Stanford, 565 Mayfield Avenue
The Image of Vilna in Modern Jewish History (Yiddish)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:00 pm
Kehilla Hall, Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center
Hillel at Stanford, 565 Mayfield Avenue
Culture, History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto
(English)

Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:00 pm
Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater, Wallenberg Hall (Building 160)
THE SHOSHANA AND MARTIN GERSTEL CONFERENCE FUND SYMPOSIUM
"The First Hebrew City"
Early Tel Aviv Through the Eyes of the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

Co-sponsored with the Shenson Fund

***CANCELLED***
Thursday, May 21, 8:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center – Levinthal Hall
THE AARON-ROLAND LECTURE IN JEWISH STUDIES
Peter Schäfer
, Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religion,
Princeton University
Why Did Baby Messiah Disappear? The Birth of Christianity from the Spirit of Judaism
Co-sponsored with the Stanford Humanities Center
***CANCELLED*** 

 

2009-10 Endowed Lectures

2008-09 Endowed Lectures

2007-08 Endowed Lectures

2006-07 Endowed Lectures

2005-06 Endowed Lectures

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.