Lectures
The Tauber Institute organizes numerous lectures throughout the academic year to keep Brandeis faculty and staff abreast of current research and trends in all fields of Jewish Studies. In addition, the Tauber Institute also organizes thematically-based lecture series designed to provide students and academics with a more in-depth look at a particular area of scholarly inquiry. Most recently, the Tauber Institute put together lecture series on the relatively new fields of Israel Studies and Sephardi Studies.
Monday, November 17th, 2008
7:00 PM
Faculty Center
“Recovered Voices”
A Lecture by James Conlon
Music Director, Los Angeles Opera
(View Lecture Video)
One of today’s preeminent conductors, James Conlon has cultivated a vast symphonic operatic and choral repertoire with the world’s most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses. Currently the music directory of the Los Angeles Opera, he served as principal conductor of the Paris National Opera and has appeared with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and opera company including Teatro alla Scala and the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. Conlon lectures on his “Recovered Voices” project celebrating the music of composers silenced by the Third Reich.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
3:00 PM
Lown Room 315
“The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Moslem and Christian Spain”
A Presentation by Peter Cole
Peter Cole is an award-winning poet and translator of Hebrew and Arabic poetry, MacArthur Fellow, and winner of the 2004 PEN-America Translation Award. His anthology, The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492, recreates for American readers the multifaceted world of medieval Spain, in which Jewish artistic and intellectual communities flourished under Islamic rule. This anthology is part of Cole’s larger poetic project that aims to reveal the interconnectedness of past and present and generate greater understanding among seemingly disparate communities. Peter Cole lives in Jerusalem and co-edits Ibis Editions, a small press devoted to the dissemination of medieval and modern literature of the Middle East. His recently edited Hebrew Writers on Writing was published this month by Trinity University Press.
Monday, November 24th, 2008
12:00 noon
Lown Room 315
“From Messianic Prophetess to Madwoman: The Displacement of Female Spirituality in the Post-Sabbatean Era”
A Lecture by Ada Rapoport-Albert
Ada Rapoport-Albert heads the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Israeli-born and educated in the UK, she has taught at Oxford University’s Oriental Institute and, as a Visiting Professor or Research Fellow, at various US, Israeli and European universities including Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, Hebrew University, Ludwig-Maximilians in Munich, and the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences socials in Paris. Rapoport-Albert specializes in the history of Jewish spirituality, especially Hasidism, and more recently Sabbateanism, with an interest in issues relating to gender and asceticism, and runs a major London-based research project on the Aramaic language of the Zohar. She has edited, among other volumes, Hasidism Reappraised (1996), and her Women in the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Tsevi, 1666-1816, originally published in Hebew, is forthcoming with the Littman Library in 2009. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s History Department and Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
12:00 PM
Lown Room 315
“Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosüa”
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University
Cosponsored by The Bernard G. and Rhoda G. Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness
Monday, March 16th, 2009
7:30 PM
Rapoporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
The 46th Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture
"Voice of the Victims: Challenges of An Integrated History of the Holocaust "
Saul Friedländer, UCLA
Saul Friedländer is a History Professor at UCLA, and Professor Emeritus, Tel-Aviv University. Since arriving at UCLA, Professor Friedländer founded the journal History and Memory. In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Grant. He has published numerous works on Nazism and Holocaust Studies, and in 2008 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his work “The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.”
Simon Rawidowicz (1896-1957) was a student of Jewish philosophy; an innovative thinker who formulated a comprehensive philosophy of the Jewish experience; an original cultural-national theoretician; a deeply committed Hebraist; a prolific essayist and editor; and the founder of two publishing houses. Rawidowicz earned his Ph.D in Philosophy in 1926 in Berlin. He came to Brandeis in 1951, and served as Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Hebrew Literature, and first chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies until his death in 1957. The range of distinguished scholars who have delivered the Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture - from Bible to Contemporary Jewish Studies - attests to the breadth of Rawidowicz's erudition and interests.
Cosponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Judaic Studies
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
7:30 PM
Usdan/International Lounge
Holocaust Remembrance Day/Yom Hashoa
Professor Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem
"Holocaust and Genocide: A Historian’s Viewpoint"
View his talkYehuda Bauer is the academic advisor to Yad Vashem, academic adviser to the International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, and senior adviser to the Swedish Government on the International Forum on Genocide Prevention. In recent years, Bauer has received recognition for his work in the field of Holocaust studies and the prevention of genocide. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Israel Prize, the highest civilian award in Israel. In 2001, he was elected a Member of the Israeli Academy of Science.
Cosponsored by the Center for German and European Studies .