Spring Term 2012
Wednesday, 30th May
David Sorkin
Beyond the Secular-Religious Dichotomy: Four Characteristics of the Religious Enlightenment
Monday, 21st May
Henny Brenner and Michael Brenner
From Experience, to Memoir, to History: Henny Brenner in Nazi Dresden
April 23rd
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Crime and Punishment in the Shtetl (1790-1850)
April 8th
Amy-Jill Levine
Violence on the Jerusalem-Jericho Road:
Readings and Misreadings of the Parable of the Good Samaritan
Wednesday, 4th April
Daniel Greene
The Jewish Origins of an American Idea: The Menorah Association and Cultural Pluralism
March 22nd
Stephan Feuchtwang, LSE
Loss and Repair: a Berlin Jewish mixed heritage family
March 5th BOOK LAUNCH
ABRAHAMS-CURIEL MEMORIAL LECTURE
Elizabeth Schächter, University of Kent
The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915: Between Tradition and Transformation
February 27th
Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage UK
The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History
February 22nd BOOK LAUNCH
David Conway, UCL
Jewry in Music
February 14th LEONARD SAINER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University
“No Fanatic is Easily Capable of Making my Cool Blood Boil!”: What Made Moses Mendelssohn Angry?
February 6th SIMON WIESENTHAL MEMORIAL LECTURE
Guy Stroumsa, University of Oxford
From Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism? Comparing the Christian and Islamic cases
January 30th
Marion Aptroot University of Düsseldorf Amsterdam
Purim papers: fun and fabrication in 18th century
January 25th RAPHAEL LOEWE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Jonathan Stökl, UCL
Female Prophets in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
January 19th
David Maskell, Oriel College, Oxford
Jean Racine and the Jews: ‘Esther’ and ‘Athaliah’
January 12th BOOK LAUNCH
Daniel Langton, University of Manchester
The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination
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