Spring 2012 Events
Henry Sapoznik, “Lady Cantors, Klezmorim, and Crooners: Eavesdropping on a Forgotten Yiddish World.”
Monday, January 30, 5:30 pm
Union South, 1308 W. Dayton Street
This lecture is presented by the Yiddish Culture Club and sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center with support from the Jack & Ruthie Cowl Center for Jewish Culture and the Righteous Persons Foundation.
CREECA Lecture: Rachel Brenner, “The Ethics of Witnessing the Holocaust: Polish Writers’ Diaries from Occupied Warsaw 1939-1945″
Thursday, February 16, 4:00 pm
206 Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Ave.)
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, with additional support from the Center for Jewish Studies.
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Ambassador John. L. Hirsch, “Memory and History: Reflections on Nuremberg and Other Places”
Thursday, March 8, 4:00 pm
Pyle Center, room 325 (702 Langdon Street)
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, with additional support from the University Lectures Committee, the George L. Mosse Program in History, the African Studies Program, Global Studies, Center for German and European Studies (CGES), and the Center for European Studies (CES).
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Ettinger Lecture: Pnina Lahav, “Golda Meir: Woman and Leader”
Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 pm
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium (702 Langdon Street)
The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Hebrew & Semtic Studies with the generous support of the Ettinger Family Foundation.
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Public Lecture: Hannah Kosstrin on the Anna Sokolow Centennial Photo Exhibition
March 15, 2012
UW Hillel, 611 Langdon Street
Professor Douglas Rosenberg rosend@education.wisc.edu
This lecture is sponsored by the Conney Project on Jewish Arts.
Workshop: “Tracing your Jewish Roots from German-Speaking Europe”
Sunday, March 18, 1:00–4:00 pm
Memorial Library, room 231 (728 State Street)
Registration is required. More information about the program and registration available here
This event is organized by the Max Kade Institute, with additional support from the Center for Jewish Studies and the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Poetry Reading: Hamutal Bar-Yosef
Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 pm
Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Avenue
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Public Lecture: Tony Michels, “New York City: Capital of Yiddish Culture”
March 21, 2012 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
UW Hillel Foundation, 611 Langdon Street
DeeDee Hirschtritt DHirschtritt@wisc.edu
This lecture is sponsored by the Yiddish Culture Club.
Public Lecture: Barry Wimpfheimer, “Talmudic Charity: Rights, Obligations, and Ambivalence”
Thursday, March 22, 3:00 pm
336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Please contact either Don Davis (drdavis@wisc.edu) or Professor Jordan Rosenblum (jrosenblum@wisc.edu) with questions.
Part of the A.W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cosponsored by the Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.
Public Lecture: Hamutal Bar-Yosef, “How did Mysticism Penetrate into Jewish Studies? The Russian Context”
Tuesday, March 27, 4:00 pm
Red Gym (716 Langdon Street)
Prof. Bar-Yosef’s residency is sponsored by the Halls Visiting Scholar fund, with additional support from the Center for Jewish Studies, Departments of Slavic Languages and Literature and Hebrew and Semitic Studies, Creative Writing, CREECA, and African Languages and Literature.
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Symposium: “The Question of Zionism: A Symposium on the Left and Its Relationship to Israel”
Thursday, April 19, 9:30–5:00 pm
Union South, Varsity Hall (1308 W. Dayton Street)
This symposium is sponsored by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.
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“Ask me more about Brecht: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge”
Monday, April 23, 7:30 pm
Mosse Humanities Building, Morphy Hall
This event is sponsored by the Department of German and the Center for Jewish Studies.
More information coming soon!
Hebrew & Semitic Studies 56th Annual Lecture: Bernard M. Levinson, “‘You Must Not Add Anything to What I Command You’: Paradoxes of Canon and Authorship in Ancient Israel”
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 7:30 pm
Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge (702 Langdon Street)
This lecture is sponsored by University Lectures Committee and the Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies with the generous support of the Ettinger Family Foundation; co-sponsored by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions.
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