Recent Events
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies hosts ongoing events, some of them in conjunction with other schools and departments at the University.
Meir Shalev
Israeli Novelist, Essayist and Columnist
THE STATE OF ISRAELI LITERATURE
Monday, November 16 at 8 p.m. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102 Columbia Law School at 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
David Myers
Jewish History, UCLA
BETWEEN JEW AND ARAB: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz
Monday, November 9 at 8 p.m. 517 Hamilton Hall
Columbia University's Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies and
American Studies Program together with
The Library of America
Ilan Stavans, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gary Shteyngart
Becoming Americans: Writing The Immigrant Experience
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Teatro of Casa Italiana Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
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Erik Butler
Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University.
Der Nister's Compliant Defiance: One Yiddish Writer and the Holocaust
Wednesday, September 30 8:00 p.m.
702 Hamilton Hall
James Loeffler
Assistant Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia & Research Associate at the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University.
DO ZIONISTS READ MUSIC FROM RIGHT TO LEFT?: Abraham Idelsohn and the Origins of Israeli Music
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 8:00 p.m.
Frieda and Milton Rosenthal Auditorium
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501
Rachel Rojanski
Professor of
Modern Jewish History at the
University of Haifa
“Yiddish as a Sub-Culture: The Israeli Case”
Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:30 p.m. 513 Fayerweather , Columbia University
Menachem Mautner
Daniel Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
"Law and Culture in Israel At the Beginning of the 21st Century"
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. The Frieda & Milton Rosenthal Auditorium Schermerhorn Hall (Room 501) Columbia University
SHOLEM ALEICHEM A 150th Anniversary Conference
Professor Ruth R. Wisse, Harvard University
"Keynote Address The Yoke of a Jew; or: Becoming Sholem Aleichem"
Sunday, March 29 at 6:00 p.m.
The Frieda & Milton Rosenthal Auditorium
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501, Columbia University
SHOLEM ALEICHEM A 150th Anniversary Conference
Filmmaker Joseph Dorman will show and discuss excerpts from his work in progress With Greetings from Bel Kaufman
"Sholem Aleichem: A Documentary"
Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 p.m.
The Frieda & Milton Rosenthal Auditorium
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501, Columbia University
Danny Fingeroth
American comic book writer and editor, better known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics.
"The Spirit Of Comics:The Life And Art Of Will Eisner"
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Room 501, Schermerhorn Hall, The Frieda & Milton Rosenthal Auditorium, Columbia Universit
Michael Brenner
Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich
"Through the Lens of Auschwitz: Re-Writing the German-Jewish Past in Postwar Germany "
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12 p.m. Room 513, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Derek Penslar
Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
"The Book of Psalms: Hasidic or Mitnaggedic?"
February 25, 2009 at 8 p.m. Room 501, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Benjamin Sommer
Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History,
University of Toronto, Canada
Visiting Professor, Columbia University
"The Jewish Origins of The Israeli Army"
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Room 501, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Ada Rapoport-Albert
Prophetess to Madwoman: Jewish Women's
Spirituality at the Beginning of the Modern Era
Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Room 310, Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University View Flyer
Joyce Antler
You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother, Brandeis University Talk, book signing & reception rsvp required 212 854 3060 akj2104@columbia.edu
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 7:30; 614 Schermerhorn Hall View Lecture Program(PDF)
Yair Zakovitch
"Stand still, O sun" (Joshua 10:10-15):
Literary Archaeology and the Unearthing of Prebiblical aditions
Thursday, October 28, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
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Daphne Barak-Erez
Landmarks in the Israeli Supreme Court: Public Life in the Legal Arena:
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
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Amos OZ
Sylvia & Joseph Radov Lecture Series
Three Israeli Perspectives:
August 12, 2008
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Jews and American Capitalism
A Joint Conference between
The Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, NYU
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
March 2- March 3, 2008
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A Dangerous "Alliance": Media, Academia, & Religious Radicalism in Israel: The Case of Pulsa DeNura
Zion Zohar
January 31, 2008
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The Zionist Utopia: Past and Present
Anita Shapira
February 25, 2007
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Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Reception
February 22, 2006
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Law and Counter-Terrorism: An Israeli Perspective with American Comments on U.S. Issues
September 27, 2005
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Accommodation or Resolution
Itamar Rabinovich
September 22, 2005
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