Spring 08
Film Screening and Q&A with director - Saturday, April 5
"Am Ende kommen Touristen," Along Come the
Tourists, 2007, in German and Polish with
English subtitles. will be shown at 6 pm in Dartmouth 105, followed by
a discussion with director Robert Thalheim. The film explores
the relationship between a young German who is doing his civil service
in the Polish town of Osweicim (Auschwitz) and an elderly Polish
survivor who gives witness testimony to visitors. Sponsored by the German
Department, Jewish Studies, Film and Television Studies, and the Leslie
Humanities Center.
Lecture - Thursday, April 10
Daniel Itzkovitz will speak on Unmaking the American Jew:
Secularism, Race, and Popular Culture at 4:30 pm in Rockefeller
Center II. Prof. Itzkovitz will speak about the "post-Jewish" in the context of
American racial politics (in particular, Obama's "post-racial" campaign),
recent popular culture, and theories of the secular. Sponsored by
the Jewish Studies Program.
Poetry Reading & Talk - Thursday, April 24
Wrestling with God: A Poetry Reading and Talk by Alicia
Ostriker. The poet will discuss and read from her poetry at
4 pm in the Wren Room, Sanborn House, with a reception following.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.
Film Screening and Talk - Thursday, May 8
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon
Wiesenthal, narrated by Nicole Kidman, will be shown at
7:30 pm in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Rabbi Aron Hier of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center Los Angeles will speak. Sponsored by Chabad of
Dartmouth, the Dickey Center, and the Jewish Studies Program.
Concert - Wednesday, May 28
Detroit-Berlin transplant singer-songwriter Daniel Kahn and
legendary Moscow avant-garde song bard Psoy Korolenko bring
their new project, The Unternationale, folk-klezmer cabaret in
English, Russian, and Yiddish, to Faulkner Auditorium ( HOP lower level) at 7
pm for a free concert. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the
Russian Department, and the Nadezhda T. Koroton Fund.
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