Events for January, 2011
Modern Hebrew Literature
Date: January 5, 2011
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Place: Paideia, Nybrogatan 21 Jan 5 - 13 Yael Shenker Investigating the main questions that were raised in the process of the emergence of modern Hebrew literature, both in the Diaspora and in Palestine before and after the establishment of Israel. more ... more »
To write a book that is not The Book: Ultra Orthodox women creating a popular Literature. Dr. Yael Shenker
Date: January 11, 2011
The Gabriel Urwitz Jewish Studies Lectures “My Text of Choice” Dr.Yael Shenker Date: Tuesday January 11 at 18:00-19:00 Place: Judiska Biblioteket, Wahrendorffsgatan 3, Stockholm The Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world, where women’s access to religious canonical literature is limited and mediated, reading popular literature and certai ... ... more »
The Jewish Society in Modern Era. Prof. Mordechai Zalkin, Ben-Gurion University
Date: January 24, 2011
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011 Place: Paideia, Nybrogatan 21 Jan 24 - Feb 3 Mordechai Zalkin A concentrated look at the main religious, educational, social and economic processes with crucial impact on the Jewish collective consciousness and way of life from the mid 18th century to the Holocaust. more ... more »
Did they know the glory of nature? The childhood experience in traditional Jewish society. Prof. Mordechai Zalkin, Ben-Gurion University
Date: January 25, 2011
The lecture will focus on examining different aspects of the child\'s world of traditional Jewish society, especially the tension between the Heder as the central feature of learning culture and the surrounding human and natural world. more ... more »