Past Lectures
Aviezer Pavitzky, former lecturer
"Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyady as an Educator"
Immanuel Etkes, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard University
April 9, 2008
“Human Rights and the Battle Against Terror: The Israeli Case”
Justice Aharon Barak, Eighth President of the Supreme Court of Israel
March 25, 2007
“‘Whatever is, is in God’: Spinoza’ Alleged Pantheism”
Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 7, 2007
“Are the Haredim in Israel Becoming More Israeli?”
Kimmy Caplan, Bar Ilan University
November 9, 2006
Panel Discussion: “Antisemitism: The Challenges Today”
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
November 1, 2006
“We Shall Remember Them All: Commemoration of the Fallen Soldiers in Israel”
Maoz Azaryahu, University of Haifa
October 25, 2006
“Between History and Biography: Memoirs from Postwar Lodz”
Shimon Redlich, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
September 18, 2006
“The Future of French Jewry”
Shmuel Trigano, Paris University
September 14, 2006
How many Concepts of Liberty?”
Quentin Skinner, Cambridge University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Brandeis English Department, The Wellesley English Department, The History of Ideas, and The Tauber Institute
March 29, 2005
“From Text to Culture and Back Again: The Talmud and the Humanities”
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University
March 21, 2005
“The New Antisemitism: First Religion, Then Race, Then What?”
Bernard Lewis, Princeton University
March 24, 2004
“Polish Society And The Holocaust: Reflections After Jedwabne”
Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
Co-sponsor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
April 9, 2003
“On Interpretation in Jewish Mysticism”
The Thirty-Eighth Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture
Moshe Idel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-Sponsor: The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University March 10, 2002
“Revelation and Concealment in the Transmission of Intellectual Traditions”
Moshe Halbertal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-sponsors: History of Ideas, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies,International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, and the Department of English, Brandeis University. With the support of: The Martin Weiner Fund, The Abba Eban Fund and The Safier-Jolles Fund
March 12, 2002
“Historical Consciousness in Times of Crisis: German-Jewish Historical Discourse Between Wars”
Dr. Guy Miron, Rutgers University
February 6, 2002
“Italian Racism and the Shoah in Northern Italy”
Dr. Renata Segre, Italian and Papal Archives Investigation Team, Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv-Venice.
Co-sponsor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
April 1, 2003
“The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Religious Life in the Soviet Union”
Mordechai Altshuler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Respondent: Gregory Freeze, Brandeis University
November 29, 2001
“Synagogues without Jews: A lecture and slide presentation”
Rivka and Dr. Ben-Zion Dorfman
March 6, 2001
“Bohemian and Moravian Jews: A Case Study in Assimilation”
Helen Epstein, Author
October 10, 2000
“Majesty of Holiness: 19th Century Liturgical Music from Berlin and Prague”
Joshua Jacobson
Conductor, Zamir Choral
November 2, 2000
“Art and Jewish History: Maurycy Gottlieb's Jewish Pantheon”
Ezra Mendelsohn
November 30, 2000
“Truth on Trial: Perspectives from a British Courtroom”
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Emory University
December 3, 2000