Chaiken Center for Jewish Studies Spring Lecture Series
The Frank and Yetta Chaiken Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware has announced its spring lecture series.
JWST 201-010 coordinated by Jennifer Jensen offers a spring lecture series with guest speakers with a variety of topics. The lectures will be on Wednesdays, in 324B Purnell Hall from 12:20 – 1:10 p.m.
Please come and join us. They are open to the public. Here is the line-up:
Feb 19 - Prof. Mark Miller, U of D, Political Science Department, “Jews in Global Migration History”.
Feb 26 - Prof. Ann Boylan, U of D, History Department, “Audacious Activists: Jewish Labor Feminists in New York City, 1890-1930”.
Mar 5 - Rabbi Michael Beals, Beth Shalom – “3800 Years of Jewish History in 40 Minutes”.
Mar 12 - Prof. Marvin Zuckerman, U of D, Psychology Department, “Freud: A Jewish-Identified Atheist”.
Mar 19 – Prof. Alan Fox, U of D, Philosophy Department, “Hindu Jewish Parallels”.
Mar 26 – Dr. Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, “Making Race with Minischewitz: African American Consumers and Jewish Identity in Postwar America”.
Apr 2 – Spring Break
Apr 9 – Prof. Stephen Barr, U of D, Physics Department, “ Einstein’s Scientific Legacy”.
Apr 16 – Dr. Martha Lucy, Drexel University – “Pissarro, Modernity and the Crowd”.
Apr 23 – Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein, Temple Beth El – “Jewish Contributions to Music”.
Apr 30 – Prof. Dilia Lóepez-Gydosh, U of D, Fashion & Apparel Studies – “Costume and Fashion: Exploring the Career of American Designer Yeda Kiviette”.
May 7 – Prof. Leslie Reidel, U of D, Theater Department, “Jews in the Theater”.
May 14 - Prof. Jay Halio, U of D, Jewish Studies – “Bellow and Roth and Other Jewish Writers”.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 12:20pm to 1:10pm
Purnell Hall, Room 234 B
Purnell Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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