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Public Lectures

“My Text of Choice”

The Jewish civilization is text-based but which are the most important texts in Jewish tradition? We have posed the question to ten leading Israeli academicians from various fields in Jewish Studies. Here are their responses.

Time: Tuesdays 18:00-19:00
Place: Hollandersalen, Judiska Centret, Nybrogatan 19, Stockholm
Admission: Free
A cooperation between Paideia and the Great Synagogue in Stockholm

 

 

January 10, 2012
Israeli Declaration of Independence as a Modern Jewish Text
PhD Candidate Rani Jaeger (Bar-Ilan University)

January 31 , 2012
“Annulling It Is Allowing its Existence”: Abraham and Ethics in Gur Hasidism
PhD Candidate Assaf Tamari (Ben Gurion University) 

February 21 , 2012
The Modern Jew and his Antiquated Tradition: I.L. Peretz Recounts Hasidic Tales
Dr. Nicham Ross (Ben Gurion University)

 

September 6, 2011
Exile and Return: Psalms 137 and 126
Prof. Yair Zakovitch (Hebrew University)

September 20, 2011
Prayers for the High Holidays
Prof. Avigdor Shinan (Hebrew University)

October 4, 2011
A Revolution in Jewish Education: Naphtaly Herz Wessely
Prof. Mordechai Zalkin (Ben-Gurion University)

25 oktober, 2011
The Zohar and its Place in Jewish Culture
Prof. Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)

15 november, 2011
Law and Life in Medieval Ashkenaz
PhD Cand. Rachel Fürst (Hebrew University)

Have you missed one of the Gabriel Urwitz Jewish Studies lectures? Maybe you live too far away from Stockholm to attend them every second Tuesday? You are now able to watch the lectures online thanks to a cooperation with Akadem.org – a web-based French Jewish academic conference forum. You can find the lectures, all in English, by following the link after each lecture.

Back to the Future: Isaiah’s Vision of the Days to Come (Isaiah 2:2-5), Prof. Yair Zakovitch (Hebrew University)
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Midrash: between Presence and Absence, Dr. Dina Stein (University of Haifa)
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Lurianic Kabbalah: Man’s Personnal Responsability for God’s Fate, Assaf Tamari (Ben-Gurion University)
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Text and Textile: Material Culture in the Geniza Society, Dr. Miriam Frenkel (Hebrew University)
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To Each His Own Maimonides: Rabbi Moses ben Maimon through different cultures and religions, Pinchas Roth (Hebrew University)
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To write a book that is not The Book: Ultra Orthodox women creating a popular Literature, Dr.Yael Shenker (Hebrew University)
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Did they know the glory of nature? The childhood experience in traditional Jewish society, Prof. Mordechai Zalkin (Ben-Gurion University)
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Books and Angels: Bibliography and Spirituality in the 17th Century, Dr. Avriel Bar-Levav (Open University of Israel)
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Herzl’s Atlneuland – An Exploration of a Realistic Utopia, Rani Jaeger (Bar-Ilan University)
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