Tuesday, January 20
Judith Nysenholc
University of Michigan
"Yiddish Illustrated Books from Russia, 1917-1960"
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze
Tuesday, February 10
Zvi Arie Steinfeld
University of Michigan and Bar Ilan University
"On a Lost Biblical Custom: Blowing The Shofar on Rosh Hodesh (New Moon)"
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze
Tuesday, February 10
FILM
Shop On Main Street (With Ida Kaminska)
Academy Award Winning Best Foreign Language Film with English subtitles
7:00 p.m.,1300 Chemistry
Wednesday, February 11
Kemal Bakarsic
Assistant Professor of Library Sciences, University of Sarajevo
"The Sarajevo Hagadah: Keepers, Seekers, and Retrievers"
Sponsored by CREES and the Working Group on Southeast European Studies
12:00 noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall
Sunday and Monday, February 15-16
International Conference on A Century of Modern Jewish Politics:
The Bund and Zionism in Poland and Eastern Europe
9:30a.m.-5:00p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall
Tuesday, February 24
Aharon Demsky
Bar Ilan University
"Jewish Names: A Cultural Code"
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze
Tuesday, February 24
Aharon Demsky
Bar Ilan University
"How Literate were the Ancient Israelites?"
Sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Center for Middle East North African Studies, and Near Eastern Studies
4:00 p.m., Rackham East Lecture Room
Thursday, March 12
FILM
The Sanitarium Under the Hourglass
A Polish film with English subtitles
based on the writings of Bruno Schulz
7:00p.m., 140 Lorch Hall
Monday, March 16
Wednesday, March 18
David Moss
Artist
" The Creation of the Moss Haggadah -- A Slide Lecture by the Artist Brings the Work to Life "
8:00 p.m., Rackham East Conference Room
Monday, March 23
Jeremy Shine
Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Michigan
"Researching Jewish Identity in Ukraine"
12:00 noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze
Wednesday, March 25
Brian Horowitz
Assistant Professor of Russian and Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska
"The Creation of Russian-Jewish Identity: Culture and Society Under the Czars"
12:00 p.m., 3040 Frieze
Thursday, March 26
Agata Tuszynska
Author and Member, Polish Writers Union
"Lost Landscapes: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland"
4:00 p.m., Rackham East Conference Room
Sunday, March 29
Tuesday, March 31
Thursday, April 2
Eli Yasif
Tel Aviv University
"Folklore in Modern Israeli Culture: Confrontation, Identity, Interpretation"
12:00 noon, 3050 Frieze
Sunday, April 5
FILM
Border Street (Aleksander Ford)
A Polish Film With English Subtitles
3:00 p.m., Michigan Theater
Thursday, April 9
Dr. Gay Wilentz
East Carolina University
"Healing the 'Sick Jewish Soul': Psychoanalytic Discourse and Jewish
Identity in Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid)'s Wasteland."
Co-Sponsored by the English Dept., Women's Studies, American Culture, and U-M Humanities
Institute.
3:00 p.m., 3222 AH.
January 22, February 19, March 26, April 23, May 14
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