April 30 at 7:00pm YIVO presents: Patriots and Pacifists: American Jewish Women and the Peace Movement Between the Wars
Melissa Klapper, Rowan University
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP: 212-294-6127
Lecture
April 8 at 7:00pm YIVO presents: Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto: Pioneering Studies of Jewish Physicians
Myron Winick, M.D., a leading world expert in starvation and nutrition, will discuss new research findings centered on a remarkable study of human starvation that was carried out in the Warsaw ghetto by Jewish physicians in the spring of 1942, as fictionalized in his new book, Final Stamp.
Ticket Info: $10 / $5 for students and YIVO members
April 14 at 7:00pm Centro Primo Levi presents: Contesting the Land: Christians and Jews in Late Roman Palestine
Oded Irshai, Senior Lecturer of Ancient Jewish
History, Hebrew University. Through a revealing analysis of historical sources and an original look at the question of the land, Dr. Irshai explores a seminal period in the formation of the Jewish Diaspora. Full program available.
May 8 at 7:00pm YIVO presents: Poland and the Jews: Before and After the Holocaust
Jan Gross, Professor of War and Society; Professor of History, Princeton University will speak about the central question of and Polish reaction to his newest book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz: How, after World War II with over 90% of Polish Jewry killed in the Holocaust, was a pogrom and anti-semitism possible in Kielce, Poland? Gross is also the author of the 2001 National Book Award nominee, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.
Ticket Info: $15 general / $7 YIVO members and students
May 12 at 7:00pm Centro Primo Levi presents: Gods and Laws: The Roman Empire and the Rabbis in Pre-Christian Palestine
Natalie Dohrmann, PhD, University of Pennsylvania will speak about Late Antiquity, one of the most significant eras in Western history, marked by the emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, and the forces that led to the dramatic appearance of Islam in the early Middle Ages. She will give an overview of the era, with special focus on the period from 200 to 650 C.E. We will imagine the complex and perhaps unexpected world shared and shaped by Jews, Christians and Pagans.
Presented by the Primo Levi Center and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Ticket Info: $15 general / $5 students
May 20 at 7:00pm YIVO presents: Israel at 60: Can It Remain Both Jewish and Democratic?
Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Distinguished Israeli philosopher, scholar and writer Moshe Halbertal raises fundamental questions about the future of Israeli society. Halbertal will share his thoughts on the future of Israel between nationalism, democracy and religion.
Ticket Info: $15 general / $13 YIVO members / $7 students
Symposium
April 13 at 10:00am CJH presents: Objects of Affection: The Wedding in Jewish Culture
Scholars, artists, curators and others will gather to discuss the most elaborately celebrated of Jewish life cycle events. Weddings provide rich opportunities to consider the intersection of media and Jewish religious life.
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