Spring 2010
**All events sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies held at the CUNY Graduate Center are free and open to the public**
January 12-14
Kingston, Jamaica
“The Jewish Diaspora of the Caribbean”: An International Conference
Please visit the above link or contact our conference coordinator, Stan Mirvis at Smirvis@gc.cuny.edu, with any questions or for any additional information.
Jane S. Gerber, Professor of Jewish History, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Conference Co-Chair
Ainsley Cohen Henriques, Director, United Congregation of Israelites, Kingston; Past
Chairman, Jamaica National Heritage Trust, Conference Co-Chair
Stan Mirvis, Conference Doctoral Student, CUNY, Conference Coordinator
January 25
6:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall
The Scone Foundation honors:
Yehosuah Freundlich, Director, Israel State Archives
Khader Salameh, Director, Al-Aqsa Mosque’Library and the Islamic Library
with the Archivist of the Year Award and a discussion on “Archives and History”
Moderated by:
Chase F. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of History and Provost of the Graduate Center
Other participants:
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University
David N. Myers, Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, will discuss preservation and interpretation in the Middle East.
Introductions by:
Merav Mack, Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
* Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center
February 10
4:30pm, Room C197
Stuart Leibman, Professor of Media Studies, Queens College
“Reflections on Early Holocaust Cinema: The Case of the Vanishing Jew”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
February 17
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Captain László Ocskay, the Forgotten Hero (A documentary about a Hungarian officer whose daring and unique rescue activities saved some 2,500 lives during the Holocaust.)
*Rosenthal Lecture Series event
March 9
4:30pm, Room C201
Robert Shapiro, Acting Chair of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College
“Oyneg Shabes: The New Guide to the Clandestine Archive Buried in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-43.”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
March 17
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Marta Bladek, John Jay University
“The Second and Third Generations’ Return to Eastern and Central Europe in Recent Jewish-American Memoirs”
*Rosenthal Lecture Series event
April 7
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
I Remember (A documentary about four Polish Jewish survivors who were either helped or betrayed by their Christian neighbors.)
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
April 20
4:30pm, Room C197
Marsha Dubrow, Resident Scholar, Center for Jewish Studies
"From Immigrant to Insider: Composer/Conductor Lazar Weiner's Jewish American Journey"
April 23
1:30pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
“Religious Coexistence in the Early Modern World”
Participants:
Elisheva Carlebach, author of The Pursuit of Heresy and Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in early Modern Germany
Nabil Matar, author of Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery and Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727
Jeffrey Knapp, author of Shakespeare’s Tribe and Shakespeare Only.
*Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, the Office of the Provost, and the English Department
April 28
4:30pm, Room C201
Samuel Heilman,
“The Lubavitcher Rebbe and His Messiah Campaign”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
**Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in Sociology and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC)
May 4
4:30pm, Room C197
Nadia Malinovich,
“French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of identity in Early Twentieth Century France”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
May 5
6:30pm, Segal Theatre
Film Screening: Sweatshop Cinderella
*Co-sponsored by the Gotham Center for NYC History
May 12
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Jane Gerber, Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center
“Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust”
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
Past Programs:
Fall 2009
September 14
4:30pm, Room 9204
Michael Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London
“Touching and Retouching, Business and Respectability: Studio Photography, Photojournalism, and the Jewish Question “
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
**Co-sponsored by the PhD program in History
September 16
6:15pm, Room C201/202
Dr. Peter Manu, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
The Vapniarka Camp in Romanian-Occupied Trasnistria 1941-1943
* Rosenthal Speaker Series event
September 17
4:30pm, Room C197
Carolyn Dean, John Hay Professor of International Studies, Brown University
“Jewish Memory and the Rhetoric of Victimhood”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
October 7
6:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall
"Nationalism, Liberalism, and Zionism A Discussion Commemorating the Centennial Year of the Birth of Sir Isaiah Berlin"
Participants include:
Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism, Bard College
Helena Rosenblatt, Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center
Robert Cottrell, Journalist, Writer, Director and Producer of Isaiah Berlin Centenary Celebration in Riga, Latvia
Moderated by:
Joel Rosenthal, President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Policy
Opening comments by:
Chase Robinson, Provost, CUNY Graduate Center
*Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities
October 14
6:15pm, Segal Theatre (No RSVP necessary)
The Rape of Europa
A documentary about th etheft, recovery, and repatriation of Europe's cultural masterpieces stolen by the Nazis.
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
October 16
2:00pm, 4406
Vivian Liska, Professor of German Literature, University of Antwerp
"Paul Celan's 'Key to Kafka'"
*Co-sponsored by the PhD program in English and Comparative Literature
November 9
4:30pm, Room 9207
Jerome Chanes, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
“Who Killed Hebrew? American Jews, Israel, and Religious Culture Wars”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
November 18
6:15pm, Room C201/202
Dr. Peter Dan, New York City Department of Education
Reflections on the Psychology of Evil: The Holocaust
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
December 8
4:30pm, Room 9204
Jack Jacobs, Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College
“Bundist Counterculture: The Interwar Years”
*Jewish Studies Colloquy event
**Co-sponsored by the PhD. Program in Political Science
December 16
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Blessed Is the Match
An award-winning documentary about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, Resistance fighter and modern day Joan of Arc.
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
Spring 2009
February 5
4:30pm, C198
Jewish Studies Colloquy
Rebecca Kobrin, Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University
"Crisis and Collapse: Jewish Immigrant Banks, Financial Failure and the Reshaping of American Capitalism 1914-1930"
*Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society
February 11
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Professor Harry Reicher, University of Pennsylvania
The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention: Measure-for-Measure Responses to the Holocaust
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
February 24
4:30pm, 9207
Jewish Studies Colloquy
Jean Naggar
"Sipping from the Nile"
A beautifully written memoir of an idyllic childhood in Egypt, growing up in a large, well established Jewish family, and of the expulsion from Egypt that ended not only her family life there but the life of a vibrant Jewish community.
*Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society
March 4
4:30pm, C198
Jewish Studies Colloquy
Daniel Tsadik, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University
“Jewish-Shi’ite Polemics in Iran: A Case Study”
*Co-sponsored by the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC)
March 10 ***This event has been postponed***
4:30pm, Elebash
"Nationalism, Liberalism, and Zionism A Discussion Commemorating the Centennial Year of the Birth of Sir Isaiah Berlin"
Participants include:
Richard Wolin, CUNY Graduate Center
Avishai Margalit, Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University
Mark Lilla, Columbia University
Moderated by:
Joel Rosenthal, President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Policy
Opening comments by:
Chase Robinson, Provost, CUNY Graduate Center
March 25
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
I Remember
A documentary about four Polish Jewish Survivors who were either helped or betrayed by their Christian neighbors. Directed by Andrzej Wajda and produced by Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visula History Foundation
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
April 20
6:00pm, Room 9204
Jewish Studies Colloquy
Pierre Bouretz, Director of Research at the Ecole of the High Studies in Social Sciences
“Witnesses of the Future: the Revival of Messianic Judaism in the 20 Century”
*Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center
April 22
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Professor Steven Brown, University of Cincinnati
Resistance During the Holocaust
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
April 29th
6:30 pm, Skylight Room (9100)
Morris Dickstein, Ruth Franklin, Daphne Merkin, Edward Rothstein and Steven Zipperstein
“Jewish Intellectuals and the Writing Life”
*Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities
Join prominent critics and intellectuals as they discuss the relationship between literary reputation, intellectualism, and Jewish life now and over the course of the last half century. Participants include Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY; Ruth Franklin, journalist for The New Republic; literary critic, essayist and novelist Daphne Merkin, author of Dreaming of Hitler; Edward Rothstein, composer and cultural critic-at-large for The New York Times; and Steven Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University and author of Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing.
May 13
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Professor Dennis Klein, Kean University
The Holocaust: Witnesses, Narratives, and Counter-Narratives
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event
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