Vermont Public Television Documentary
A new Vermont Public Television documentary, "Little Jerusalem," about the immigration of Jews from Lithuania to Burlington, Vermont, in the late 19th century, will be screened Tuesday, February 19 at 7pm in Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center. Following the film there will be a panel discussion and reception. This event is sponsored by the Religion Department and the Jewish Studies Program.
Lecture by Michael Klare, PAWSS Professor, Hampshire College.
Wednesday, August 1 at 4:30 pm
Location: Haldeman 041
Michael Klare, Five College professor of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. He has written widely on U.S. military policy, international peace and security affairs, the global arms trade, and global resource politics.
This lecture is presented by the Jewish Studies Program and sponsored by the Brownstone Family Visiting Professorship Fund in Judaic Studies.
"In Defense of Academic Freedom and the Dignity of the Scholar: Ernst Kantorowicz from Frankfort to Berkeley," a lecture by Eugene Sheppard, Brandeis University, with a response by Udi Greenberg, will take place on Tuesday, August 16, at noon in Rockefeller Center 1930s Room. Lunch will be available. This event is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth. All are welcome.
will take place on Tuesday, May 24 at 4 p.m. in Kemeny 008, followed by a reception. Harvey Goldberg, cultural anthropologist from Hebrew University in Israel, will speak on "The Jews of Libya: Memory and Identity."
This lecture is presented by the Jewish Studies Program and sponsored by the Brownstone Family Visiting Professorship Fund in Judaic Studies.
A lecture by John Collins of the Yale Divinity School
Tuesday, May 3 at 5:00 p.m.
Location: Rockefeller Center 3
This lecture is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth
Samuel Kassow, Trinity College, will speak on "The Uniqueness of Jewish Vilna" on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Center II. This lecture is made possible with a gift from Leon Black '73.
Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany
Job, God, and the Problem of Evil
Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Location: Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
This year's Hardigg Fellow is Professor Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. A moral philosopher with interests in philosophy of religion, she is the author of several award-winning books, including Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2002) and Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (2008).
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Religion Department, the Jewish Studies Program, the Philosophy Department, and the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: 1930s Room, Rockefeller Center
A lecture by Gideon Libson, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: 1930s Room, Rockefeller Center
This lecture is sponsored by the Mary & William II 1934 Family Fund and is presented by the Jewish Studies Program.
Lecture with Visiting Brownstone Professor Leo Spitzer.
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Haldeman 041
Reception to follow.
This lecture will focus on sites on the World Wide Web like www.czernowitz.ehpes.com that have enabled large, new, archival resources about places from which Jews were expelled or displaced — and, especially, how these cyber sites have generated desires both among surviving Jews and subsequent generations for so called "roots" or "return" journeys to these originary places.
Presented by the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth.
Sponsored by the Brownstone Family visiting Professorship Fund in Judaic Studies.
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Haldeman 041
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On the basis of family and recently opened public archives as well as letters, memoirs, photographs, essays, poetry, and material remnants, this interdisciplinary symposium explores a virtually unknown chapter of Twentieth Century European history: the Holocaust in Romania.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Faulkner Auditorium in the HOP
Psoy Korolenko is a songwriter, singer, poet, comedian, one-man Klezmer band, and "wandering scholar" who performs in several languages. His appeal spans generations, from teens to college students to those who remember Yiddish spoken in their homes.
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Russian Department, Nadezhda T. Koroton Fund, and the Jewish Studies Program.
Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock 
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Kreindler Auditorium, Haldeman 041
Approaching the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, conceptual artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock speak about their critical interventions addressing urban space, memory, and new media. In collaboration with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Department of German Studies, the Department of Art History, the Hood Museum of Art and the Jewish Studies Program. In support of the Dartmouth Centers Forum theme Conflict & Reconciliation.
To mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Portnoy's Complaint, the Jewish Studies Program will hold an informal symposium on the work of Philip Roth and its impact on Jewish identity. Speakers include Janis Bellow, Bernard Avishai (Hebrew University), Richard Gottlieb (NY Psychoanalytic Society), Jonathan Wilson (Tufts University), Sidra Ezrahi (Hebrew University), and Klaus Milich and Ivy Schweitzer from Dartmouth College.
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Haldeman 124
The Philip Roth Symposium is made possible by the generous endowment of the Mary & William Barnet II 1934 Family Fund.
For further information, please e-mail Susannah Heschel or Karen DeRosa.
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Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Haldeman 041
Reception to follow.
Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program, Department of Philosophy, Department of Religion, William Jewett Tucker Foundation, Professor Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, all of Dartmouth College, and by the Eugen Rosenstock Huessy Fund.
Lecture by Steven Zipperstein.
Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Steve writes modern Jewish history and has published widely in professional and popular publications including the New York Times,the Washington Post, New Republic, Partisan Review and Dissent.
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Carpenter Hall 201C
Podcast — US Holocaust Memorial Museum Voices on Antisemitism podcast series
