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Past Events:
Events from the 2003-2004 Academic Year: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 4:30 p.m.
Lawrence
Baron, Ph.D. , Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History
and Director of the Lipinsky
Institute for Judaic Studies , San Diego State University
"X-Men as J-Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie"
Clark Hall Room 309, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Baron is the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History
and Director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies
at San Diego State University. He is also the founder and
current president of the Western Jewish Studies Association.
He authored a book on the German Jewish anarchist, Erich
Muehsam, as well as more than 60 articles on modern Jewish
history. Dr. Baron's current research focuses on the depiction
of the Holocaust in recent feature films.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 4:30 p.m.
Panel discussion on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
Room 309, Clark Hall
Peter Haas, Tim Beal, and Alice
Bach-- all faculty in the Department of Religion
at Case -- will discuss the film from the perspective of
their respective Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic faiths.
Cosponsored by the Department
of Religion and the Baker-Nord
Center for the Humanities.
For more information about this event, click
here.
To visit the movie's official web site, click
here.
Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 2:30 p.m.
Purim Carnevale
Ensemble Ciaramella
A Theatrical Extravaganza based on the first Hebrew play, 'A Comedy of Betrothal'
by
Leone de Sommi (1525-1590)
Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 2:30 p.m.
Click
here for more information about this event from the Cleveland
Museum of Art.
This theatrical extravaganza is based on the first Hebrew
play, “A Comedy of Betrothal” by Leone de Sommi (1525-1590). "Purim
Carnevale" deals with issues of Jewish assimilation in what
was essentially the cinema or video of the day. Ensemble
Ciaramella, modeled on the theatrical musical ensembles of
the early 17th century, is joined by singers, actors, and
dancers in period costume to present a modern theatrical
production based on the work. The piece is directed by Anna
Levenstein, a Ph.D. student at Case, and presented with the
help of Omri Yavin, an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter,
and Case instructor of Hebrew.
Co-sponsored by The Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies,
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and The Cleveland
Museum of Art.
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 - 4:30 p.m.
Byron Sherwin, Ph.D. , Distinguished Service Professor and Director of Doctoral
Programs,
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
“Editing Life: The Golem Legend in the Biotech Century"
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 309, Case Western Reserve University
An internationally renowned Jewish theologian, ethicist
and scholar of Jewish mystical traditions, Professor Byron
L. Sherwin is the author or editor of 24 books and more than
150 articles and monographs. Dr. Sherwin currently serves
as Director of Doctoral Programs and Distinguished Service
Professor at Chicago's Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.
In 1995, he was awarded the "Officer's Order of Merit" by
President Walesa of The Republic of Poland and in 1996 received
an honorary Doctor of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological
Seminary.
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Anthony Lewis
"Civil Liberties after 9/11"
Thwing Ballroom, Case Western Reserve University
Lewis is this year's Silver Scholar-in-Residence
at the Temple-Tifereth Israel. He was a reporter for the
New York Times from 1969 to 2001 and has been the James Madison
Visiting Professor of First Amendment Issues in the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism since 1983. Lewis
lectured at Harvard Law School for 15 years and has twice
won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Isaac
Kalimi
Rosenthal Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics
"The Book of Esther in Judaism and Jewish Theology"
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206, CWRU
Dr. Kalimi is this year's Rosenthal Visiting
Professor in the Department of Classics at Case. His area
of academic specialty is the ancient history of the Jewish
people, Biblical and Rabbinic literature, and Jewish exegesis.
Professor Kalimi holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Judith Neulander
Lecturer, Department of Religion, Case Western Reserve University
"Crypto-Jews of the Southwest: Truth or Illusion"
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206, CWRU
Judith Neulander is an Instructor in the Department of Religious
Studies at Case. She has a Ph.D. from the Institute of Folklore
and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington and
Masters degrees in Jewish Studies and World Arts and Cultures
from UCLA. Her dissertation research on an alleged crypto-Jewish
survival in the American southwest was written up in "The
Atlantic Monthly," and her scholarly publication on this
topic received first prize for publication on folklore and
religion from the American Folklore Society.
Events from the 2002-2003 Academic Year:
Wednesday, April 2, 2003
Mara
W. Cohen Ioannides
"A History of Haggadot"
Presented by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western
Reserve University and the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland's Alvin, Lottie
and Rachel Gray Center for Jewish Life and Learning.
Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, who teaches Jewish Studies at Southwest Missouri State
University, will present a pictorial examination of the development of haggadot.
She will discuss the evolution of haggadot from one of the earliest, penned
between 900 and 1100, to several of the most famous, and finally, many of the
newest, as well as haggadot from around the world, including one from China.
Prof. Ioannides's scholarship focuses on haggadot, most specifically the development
of the non-liturgical portions. Among her awards is a fellowship at the Jacob
Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. She has been published
in SHOFAR and CCAR Journal, among other publications. Additionally, she has
been studying the Jews of the Ozards, winning a Folk Arts Program grant and
editing the only history of the Ozarks Jewish community.
Events from the 2001-2002 Academic
Year:
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
7:30 p.m.
Stonehill Auditorium, Mandel Jewish Community Center
26001 South Woodland Road, Beachwood
LEE SHAI WEISSBACH
Professor of History & Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences,
University of Louisville (Kentucky)
The History of synagogue architecture in Northeast Ohio
November 1-3, 2001
Meeting at CWRU of international group of scholars
working on collaborative book entitled
"Forgiveness-Reconciliation-Justice:
Possibilities After Auschwitz".
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
4:30 p.m.
Room 206 Clark Hall
YOM
TOV ASSIS
Rosenthal Visiting Fellow
Head, Institute of Jewish Studies,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"THE JEWISH MESSIAH WHO BECAME A MUSLIM:
Shabbetai Zvi and His Disciples from
the 17th Century Through Today"
When Shabbetai Zvi, the mystic Jew from Izmir, Turkey, proclaimed
himself the messiah in the second half of the 17th century,
almost the entire Jewish population of the world accepted
him as such and began preparations for the return to their
homeland.
The shock and embarrassment were great, therefore, when
under Turkish pressure, Shabbetai converted to Islam as Mehmet
Efendi. He was followed by his most loyal supporters who
also converted and became known as the Donmeh - a crypto-Jewish
sect which survives in Turkey today.
Free and open to the public
For more information: 216-368-2414
Events from the 2000-2001 Academic Year:
March 21, 2001
Stephen
Cohen
President, Institute for Middle East Peace and Development,
"Up-to-the-Minute Middle East Briefing".
February 22, 2001
Pan Guang, Professor of Political Science
and History and Dean of the Center of Jewish Studies, Shanghai.
February 12, 2001
Rachel Elior
Rosenthal Visiting Fellow and Professor and Head, Dept. of Jewish Studies,
Hebrew University.
"Halakhah and Aggadah-Law and Myth
in Jewish History"
November 21, 2000
Michael
Berkowitz
Reader in Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
Univeristy College, London.
"Jewish Stereotyping"
October 27, 2000
Conference:
"Treading Sacred Ground:Parallels in Jewish and Chrisitian Art and Architecture."
September 11, 2000
Isaiah
Gafni
Rosenthal Visiting Fellow and Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew University.
"Teaching Ancient Jewish History in
Contemporary Israel."
Events from the 1999-2000 Academic Year:
February 14, 2000
Shalom Sabar
Rosenthal Visiting Fellow and Chair, Jewish and Comparative Folklore, Hebrew
Univeristy.
"Bride and Courtesan-Images of Upper Class
Jewish Women in Renaissance Italy"
January 18, 2000
Peter
Haas
Abba Hillel Silver Chair of Jewish Studies and Director, Samuel Rosenthal Center
for Judaic Studies.
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