The Fall 2008 Louis and Mildred Resnick Lecture
Series
Director, Gerald Sorin
The State of Israel at Sixty
September 11: Rabbi Rena Blumenthal of Vassar College
On Varieties of Liberal Judaism in Modern Israel
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September 18: Professor Lewis Brownstein, former Chair of the
Department of International Relations and Political Science,
SUNY, New Paltz.
On Israel, and the Nature, Quality, and Consequences of
Ongoing Existential Threat
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September 25: Israeli born and raised Professor Yoav Kaddar,
Department of Theatre Arts, SUNY, New Paltz, and Resident
Choreographer
On Israel and the Arts: A “Siege Mentality”? and the Cultural
Imagination (with a focus on dance)
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October 2: Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary,
Professor of Jewish Studies and Simon H. Fabian Chair in Hebrew
Literature
On Tel Aviv, 1909-2009: The Creation of Jewish Urban Space
October 16: Dr. Len Lyons, author of many books, including
THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS OF ISRAEL Personal Stories of Life in the
Promised Land and member of the Ethiopian Jewry Committee of
the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston
On The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Culture Shock and the
Struggle to Become Ethiopian Israelis
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October 23: Israeli-born and raised Tova Weitzman, Professor of
Hebrew Language and Literature, Vassar College Will introduce,
and help moderate discussion, following our screening of the
award-winning Israeli documentary film
No. Seventeen Was Anonymous
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All presentations will be on Thursdays [note new day, please] in
Lecture Center 100 at 5 pm [note new time, please!]. LC 100 is a
large room (capacity c. 500), so please bring interested friends
and colleagues, and please, too, as a courtesy to our speakers,
let’s occupy those first rows down front and center. I look
forward to seeing many of you in September.
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