Past Events
Featured Event
Law and Counter- Terrorism
September 27, 2005Participants included Justice Elyakim Rubinstein of Israel's Supreme Court and Columbia Law School professors George Fletcher, Debra Livingston, and Harold Edgar. Michael F. Stanislawski moderated the panel, and Columbia Law School's Dean David Schizer and Israel's Ambassador Arye Mekel gave opening remarks.
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The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies has a long tradition of holding special events, including lecture series, conferences, exhibitions of archival materials, University Seminars, and gatherings tied to visits of key Israeli figures to our campus. This archive offers access to the available documentation on past activities of the institute.
The Israel and Jewish Studies University Seminar was founded in 1968. This seminar meets six times during the academic year and brings together approximately forty scholars from Columbia and the greater New York academic community as well as graduate students. The seminar deals with the whole range of topics relating to Jewish studies and Israel—history, literature, sociology, religion, and political studies—and frequently presents distinguished lecturers from Israeli and European universities.
Conferences
Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391–1648
November 8–11, 1992
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New Perspectives in American Jewish History
On the appointment of Arthur Aryeh Goren as Russell Knapp Professor of American Jewish History
March 4, 1990
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Perspectives on S. Y. Agnon: Commemorating the Centenary of his Birth
On the occasion of the appointment of Dan Miron as Leonard B. Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
November 14, 1988
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The Senses of Scripture: Modes and Methods of Interpretation in Jewish Tradition
On the occasion of the appointment of David Weiss Halivni as Professor of Religion
April 7, 1987
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Sylvia and Joseph Radov Lectures
Mapping a Way Out of the Israli-Palestinian Crisis
Martin Indyk
October 24, 29, and 30, 2002
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Three Aspects of Literature and the Holocaust
Aharon Appelfeld
March 4, 11, and 13, 1991
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Dilemmas in the Historical Representation of the Shoah
Saul Friedlander
March 23, 27, and 29, 1989
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Yiddish Studies Events
The German-Yiddish Encounter
May 10, 2004
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Between History and Memory: Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto
Samuel Kassow
April 28, 2003
Yiddish Studies in Europe: Past and Future
Shlomo Berger
March 24, 2003
Abi Gezunt: Moyshe Marcuze and the Maskilic Politics of Jewish Health
John Efron
March 10, 2003
The Rise of Soviet Yiddish Literary Criticism
Mikhail Krutikov
October 30, 2002
Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage: The Moscow State Yiddish Theater
Jeffrey Veidlinger
April 15, 2002
The Yiddish Theater and the Beilis Affair
Joel Berkowitz
February 28, 2002
Other Events
Perspectives on Jewish Messianism
An Exhibition of Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Judaica Collections of the Columbia University Libraries
April 13–24, 1981
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