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The Pulpit and the "Bully Pulpit": Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
November 11 at 6:30 pm
Center for Jewish hIstory
Peter Steinfels, PhD, New York Times columnist, Co-Director, Fordham Center on Religion & Culture,
Rev. James M. Dunn, PhD, Divinity School, Wake Forest University. Rabbi James Rudin, Senior Advisor on Inter-religious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee.
Seymour P. Lachman, PhD, Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform, Wagner College, co-author One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Science, Moderator.
Co-presented
by Wagner College.
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The Gisella Levi Cahnman Open Seminars continue in December.
December 16, 17, 18, 6pm
GADI LUZZATTO VOGHERA
University of Venice/Boston University
From "Jews" to "Israelites." Identity and tradition at the dawn of emancipation.
Gadi Luzzatto, a scholar of modern Jewish and European history, anti-semitism, and the State of Israel, will raise interpretative issues and explore real life stories of 19th century men and women against the background of the political and cultural changes that redefined Italy in the wake of unification.
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TICKETS FOR ALL EVENTS:
212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com |
The Gisella Levi Cahnman Open Seminars in Italian Jewish Studies
Of Ghetto and Nation:
A Post-Modern Conundrum?
NOVEMBER 3, 6:00PM
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY, NYC
DAVID RUDERMAN
University of Pennsylvania
Beyond the Dialectic of Ghetto versus Integration. Towards a new vision of Jewish cultural history in Italy.
David Ruderman, director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and renowned expert in the history of ideas that shaped the identity and culture of Italian Jewry reframes in thought-provoking terms the historical dynamics of one of the oldest European minorities.
Re-examining the place of Jews in Italian culture and society during and after the Renaissance, and trying to assess the nature of their integration and segregation during the Ghetto period, he looks at the work of Judah Messer Leon (15th cent.), Judah Del Bene (17th cent.) and Elijah Benamozegh (19th cent.) in search of a cultural posture common to them all, perhaps a key to understanding the unique nature of Italian Jewish cultural history.
Whether and how strongly are his views affected by the post-modern homiletics of a 21th century American Jew remains to be seen. But the ideas and methodological questions sparked by Ruderman's work continue to stand today as precious references for scholars in all fields and for the public at large. |
OCTOBER 30, 3:30PM
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
MAURO PERANI, University of Bologna
The Library and the Department of Jewish History
of the Jewish Theological Seminary in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Consulate General of Italy, will host a lecture of Mauro Perani (University of Bologna) entitled "The Girona Genizah: A Mine of Texts and Historical Documents for the History of Catalan Jews of the Fourteenth Century". Mauro Perani is professor of Jewish studies, Secretary of the Italian Association for Jewish Studies, and President of the European Association for Jewish Studies.
Thursday, October 30, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Jewish Theological Seminary - Mendelson Convocation Center - 3080 Broadway at 122 Street
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