Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

Lectures

FIU Judaic Studies Program
Lecture Schedule 2007-08
Theme: Jews at Home and Abroad

Spring 2008

Monday, January 14 – Sunday, January 20, 2008
6th Annual Holocaust Education Week
Special Events and Lectures

Sunday, January 20, 2008, 7:30 pm
Kovens Conference Center, Biscayne Bay Campus
2008 Holocaust Studies Scholar-in-Residence,
Daniel H. Magilow, The University of Tennessee
"Anne Frank and Kitty Weichherz: Two Girls, Two Diaries"
Part of the 6th Annual Holocaust Education Week special events and lecture series

Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 pm
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach Rabbi David Young, Temple Sinai of North Dade "Judaism and the Comics"
Free to FIU students with ID and JMOF members ($6 for non-members)
Co sponsored with the Jewish Museum of Florida in conjunction with the exhibit ZAP! POW! BAM! The Super Hero: Jewish Creators of Comic Books 1938-1950

Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Kovens Conference Center, FIU Biscayne Bay Campus
"Ukraine: The Holocaust by Bullets: An Interview with Father Patrick Desbois"
Presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and co-sponsored by FIU Judaic Studies, The Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach and the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. For more event information, click here

New! Friday, February 29, 2008, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
FIU University Park Campus | HLS570
Victoria J. Barnett, "The Churches and the Holocaust"
Co-organized by FIU's Judaic Studies Program and by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. The
organizers thank Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jaffee and Deanie and Jay Stein and the
Morris Family Foundation for their support of this program.

Friday, February 29, 2008, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Yuki Miyamota, DePaul University
“Hiroshima and the Holocaust”
Presented and co-sponsored by the Institute for Asian Studies

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:30 pm
GC 243 University Park Campus
Rabbi Sam Intrator,
“An Evening of Kabbalah: Stories and Songs”
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Spirituality

Monday, March 31, 2008 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
PC 211 University Park Campus
Educator, Writer, Activist, Rabbi Or Rose
"Never Again, Again…Darfur and the American Jewish Community"

Other Community Events:

Monday, February 4, 2008 7:00 pm (registration 6:30 pm)
Wolfe University Center Theatre, Biscayne Bay Campus
"Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: Challenges and Implications for the World"
Keynote: David A. Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
RSVP by Jan 31, rsvpmiami@ajc.org or (305) 670-1121

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:00 pm
The Shul of Bal Harbour, 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, FL
Rabbi Shalom D. Lipskar
"Thoughts on the Holocaust from the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Personal Diary"
For more information please call the Holocaust Memorial, 305-538-1663, www.holocaustmmb.org

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 7:30 pm
FIU University Park, Graham Center 150
Carol Rose, “Walking the Mother Path”
Presented by FIU Center for Study of Spirituality and co-sponsored by Women’s Studies and Judaic Studies at FIU

Monday, March 31, 2008 7:30 pm
Temple Emanu-El, 1701 Washington Avenue (17th and Washington), Miami Beach
Educator, Writer, Activist, Rabbi Or Rose
“Tikkun Olam: The History of an Idea”

Fall 2007

Monday, September 10, 2007, 2:00-2:50 pm
GC 278A, University Park Campus
Keiko Matsui Gibson, Kanda University of International Studies
“Creative Japanese Literature by a Non-Japanese.”
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Asian Studies.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 2 pm
Wolfe University Center Theater, Biscayne Bay Campus
Rabbi Mario Rojzman and Bishop Justo Laguna,
“All Roads Lead to Rome...and Also Jerusalem”
Co-sponsored with H2G: Hillel Second Generation Foundation

Thursday, October 18-Tuesday, November 13, 2007
27th Annual Jewish Book Festival at the
Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center,
11155 SW 112th Avenue Miami, FL 33176
Events include:

Thursday, October 18, 8 pm
Michael Oren, “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present”
Thursday, October 25, 8 pm
Ambassador Dennis Ross, “Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World” (FIU Judaic Studies Featured Event)
Tuesday, November 13, 8 pm
Benjamin Orbach, “Live from Jordan: Letters Home from My Journey Through the Middle East”
Students: Contact the Alper JCC, 305-271-9000, ext. 268, for more information and to reserve tickets for free student admission.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 11:00am-1:00pm
GL220, University Park Campus
Dr. Raanan Rein, Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University, Director, The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, and Professor of Spanish and Latin American History
“Searching for Home in Argentina and Israel: On History and Identity Among Jewish-Argentines and Argentine-Israelis”
Part of the Latin American Jewry Series
Co-sponsored with LACC

Monday, November 26, 2007, 11:00-11:50 am
PC 439, University Park Campus
Benyamim Tsedaka, “The Samaritan Community in Israel: Past and Present”

POSTPONED
Wolfe University Center Ballroom, Biscayne Bay Campus
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, 20th District, FL (D)
“Promoting Middle East Peace and Security: The Role of Congress”
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Society and Hadassah

Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Beit David Highland Lakes Synagogue
2601 NE 205th St., North Miami Beach; 305-935-4140
Nationally syndicated columnist, Joel Mowbray
“The Peace Process: A Post-Annapolis View”
Co-Sponsored by Higer, Lichter and Givner, Attorneys at Law

SPRING 2006

Sunday, January 8

Florida Jewish History Month Kickoff

Chirs Monaco, filmmaker and author of

Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer (LSU Press)

10:30 am, Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach

Thursday, January 19

Dr. Tudor Parfitt, SOAS London, The Quest for the Lost Tribes of Israel

7:30 pm, Wertheim Conservatory, University Park Campus,

Co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Spirituality

Tuesday, February 7

Dr. Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa,

People of the Comic Book: It's a Man! It's a Jew! It's Supermensch!

7:30 pm, Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach

Thursday, February 9

Dr. Murray Baumgarten, University of California Santa Cruz,

My Panama: Refugee Snapshots

12:30 pm, GL 220, University Park Campus

Part of the IJNES-LACC Series on Latin American Jewry

Tuesday, February 21

Dr. Richard Freund, University of Hartford,

New Excavations at Nazareth and Mary's Well in Israel

12:30 pm, GC 243, University Park Campus

March, TBA

Rabbi Saj Freiberg, FIU/Collegiate Learning Experience,

Rambam's 13 Principles: A Reconsideration

Time and Location TBA

Monday, April 3 - RESCHEDULED

Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, San Diego State University,

Zionism, the Qur'an, and Islamic Tradition

12:30-1:45 pm, DM 190, University Park Campus

Thursday-Friday, March 30-31

Thursday, March 30 - Dr. David Newman, Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev, Israel, Changing Geopolitics and Security in the Middle East

7:00 pm, Mary Ann Wolfe Theater, Biscayne Bay Campus

Part of the Conference on Geographic Information Technologies and the New

Middle East

Friday, March 31 - Dr. David Newman, Israel after the Elections

7:30 pm, H2G, 20488 West Dixie Hwy, Aventura

Co-sponsored with H2G and the Jewish Students Union

Friday, April 7 - CANCELLED

Dr. Marjorie Agosin, Wellesley College, A Cross and a Star

12:00-2:00 pm, GC 243, University Park Campus

Part of the IJNES-LACC Series on Latin American Jewry

Sunday, April 2

Donna Gehrke-White, Miami Herald, author of

The Face Behind the Veil: The Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America

2:00 pm, GL 220, University Park Campus

Fundraiser for Green Library, Islamic Studies collection

Co-sponsored by Muslim Students' Association, Religious Studies Department

Fall 2005

October 27, 2005-November 7, 2005

25th Annual Jewish Book Festival

Robert Russell Theater at the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center
Book Festival Calendar and Location

November 7, 2005 (Monday)

R. Dr. Arthur Seltzer, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

�Jonah, the Whale, and the Journey of the Soul�

9:30 am, University Park, PC 244

November 9, 2005 (Wednesday)

Tom Reiss, author of The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life (Random House, 2005)

11:00 am, University Park, CP 117

November 21, 2005 (Monday)

Dr. Nathan Katz, FIU

�Jewish Identity in India�

9:30 am, University Park, PC 244

November 28, 2005 (Monday)

Dr. Sharon Portnoff, Boston University

�To Honor the Dead: Memory, Faith, and the Thought of Emil Fackenheim�

11:00 am, University Park, CP 117

Part of Holocaust Education Week; co-sponsored with the Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach

Spring 2005

January 18, 2005 (Tuesday)
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
"Kabbalah and Spirituality" and honorary degree ceremony
7:30 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, Kovens Conference Center Ballroom

February 6, 2005 (Sunday)
"Weaving the Tapestry of Jewish Life in America"
Day-long symposium, Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center 244B

March 15, 2005 (Tuesday)
Laura Levitt, Temple University
David Shneer, University of Denver
"Loose Threads: Jewish America in the 21st Century-Homeland or Diaspora"
7:30 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center Ballroom (Side B)

Fall 2004

October 27, 2004 (Wednesday)
Jennifer A Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Uncomfortable Monuments: Holocaust Memorials in Contemporary Berlin"
6:00 pm, University Park Campus, GC 278B

November 1, 2004 (Monday)
Ronald Florence, Novelist and Historian
"Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840"
Part of the Jewish Book Festival
7:30 pm, Beit Breira-9400 S.W. 87th Avenue

November 9, 2004 (Tuesday)
Oren Stier, Florida International University
"Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust"
2:00 pm, Kendall Library-9101 SW 97 Ave
Co-sponsored by the Miami Public Libraries

November 15, 2004 (Monday)
Linda Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College
"Anselm Kiefer, Jewish Art, and the Holocaust"
5:00 pm, Room TBA
Co-sponsored by the FIU Art and Art History Department

November 30, 2004 (Tuesday)

Lawrence Schiffman, New York University

The Rabbinic Response to Christianity

12:30 pm, University Park Campus, MM4 140

December 2, 2004 (Thursday)
Ruth Knafo Setton, Lehigh University

Jewish Identity & the Holocaust: A Reading and Discussion

7:30 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, Kovens Conference Center, Room 126

Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach

Spring 2004

January 22, 2004 (Thursday)
Xu Xin, Nanjing University (China)
�The Jews of China�
7:30 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, ACI 327

February 2, 2004 (Monday)
Zvi Zohar, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel and the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem
�From Intellectual Expert to Charismatic Oracle -- the Transformation of Orthodox Rabbinic Authority in Modern Times"
11:00 am, Biscayne Bay Campus, AC 1- 228

"Bringing the Messiah Through Law -- Two Major Attempts in 16th Century Judaism"
2:00 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, AC 1-327

"The Rabbi and the Sheikh -- A Tale of an Inter-Faith Quest and a Human Relationship in 18th Century Damascus"
7:30 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, Kovens Conference Center Ballroom

February 19, 2004 (Thursday)
Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University
�The 350^th Anniversary of Jews in America�
7:30pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, Kovens Conference Center Ballroom
Cosponsored by Temple Sinai of North Dade and the Academy for Lifelong Learning

March 15, 2004 (Monday)
Isaac Kalimi, Distinguished Rosenthal Professor in the Department of Classics Case Western Reserve University
�The Book of Esther in and Oriental Jewish Tradition, Thought, and Exegesis�
6:00pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, WUC 245

Fall 2003

October 2, 2003 (Thursday)
Marion Jacobson, New York University
"The Yiddish Folk Chorus Legacy, From the Old Country to the New"
7:30 P.M., Biscayne Bay Campus, WUC 244 A
Co-sponsored with the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture

October 15, 2003 (Wednesday)
Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Secret Jews and Contemporary Culture"
6:00 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, ACI 327

October 26, 2003 (Sunday)
Joshua Greene
"Justice at Dachau"
7:30 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, WUC 244 A

October 27, 2003 (Monday)
Joshua Greene
12:30 pm, University Park Campus, DM 110

October 29, 2003 (Wednesday)
Michael Berenbaum
"Spiritual Resistance to the Holocaust"
12:30 pm, University Park Campus, DM 110
and
7:30 pm, Temple Emanu-El

November 2, 2003 (Sunday)
Public Seminar on Indo-Israeli Diplomacy
3:00-6:00 pm, University Park Campus, Graham Center Ballroom

November 13, 2003 (Thursday)
Gloria Mound, Casa Shalom: Institute for Marrano-Anusim Studies, Israel and Research Fellow, Department of Hispanics, University of Glasgow
"The Marrano Jewish Community in South Florida"
11:00 am, Biscayne Bay Campus, ACII 243

November 20, 2003 (Thursday)
Rose Rothschild
"A Rose Blooms Again"
7:30 P.M., Biscayne Bay Campus, WUC 155
Co-sponsored with the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture

November 26, 2003 (Wednesday)
Ned Glass, Holocaust Survivor
12:30 pm, University Park Campus, DM 110

December 3, 2003 (Wednesday)
Dana Kaplan
"Castro's Jews"
6:00 pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, WUC 245

Spring 2003

January 23, 2003 (Thursday)
Troim Handler
�The Jewish World of Marc Chagall�
7:30 P.M., Biscayne Bay Campus
Co-sponsored with the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture

February 9, 2003
Oren Baruch Stier, FIU
"Remembering the Holocaust: Six Questions"
Part of the FIU-Young Israel of Miami Beach (YIMB) Lecture Series
Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, 8:00 P.M.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies

February 11, 2003 (Tuesday)
Adolfo Roitman, Curator of the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum (Jerusalem)
6:00 P.M., Kovens Conference Center (Biscayne Bay Campus)
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Art Museum, and the Department of Religious Studies

February 23, 2003 (Sunday)
Deborah Dash Moore, Vassar College/FIU
Paula Hyman, Yale University
Symposium on Jewish Women in America
Kovens Center, 3:00-6:00 P.M.
Co-sponsored by the Edna Gene and Jordan Davidson Endowment, the Department of Religious Studies, and Women's Studies Center

February 25, 2003 (Tuesday)
Joseph Skibell, Emory University
Author of A Blessing on the Moon
MM4 140, 2:00-3:15 P.M.

March 1, 2003 (Saturday)
Morris Faierstein, University of Maryland
"The Exile of Kabbalah After the Expulsion from Spain of 1492"
8:00 P.M., AC1 194

March 9, 2003 (Sunday)
Bonnie Gurewitsch, Museum of Jewish Heritage
"Camp Sisters: A Ray of Hope in the Concentration Camp"
Sara Horowitz, York University
"The Gender of Good and Evil: Women and Holocaust Memory"
Symposium on Women and the Holocaust
Kovens Conference Center, 3:00-6:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Women's Studies Center

March 23, 2003 (Sunday)
Nathan Katz, FIU
"India and Israel Through the Ages"
Part of the FIU-Young Israel of Miami Beach (YIMB) Lecture Series

March 29, 2003 (Saturday)
Jonathen Schorsch, Emory University
"Jews and Blacks: How Two Early Modern Minorities Saw One Another"
8:00 P.M., AC1 194

April 3, 2003 (Thursday)
"Teach-In: War in Iraq"
GC East Ballroom
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Participants:
JOSEPH JUPILLE, Associate Director of the Miami European Union Center, Assistant Professor of Political Science
"The War in Iraq: The French Perspective"

PAUL KOWERT, Associate Professor of International Studies
"Deciding to Go to War"

CHARLES MACDONALD, Professor of International Relations
"The Question of Legitimacy"

RICHARD OLSON, Professor of Political Science
"Rebuilding Iraq?"

ELIZABETH PRUGL, Associate Professor of International Relations
"Disarming Saddam: A European Perspective"

NICOL RAE, Chairperson and Professor of Political Science
"The Domestic Perspective"

Moderator: JOHN F. STACK, JR., Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies, Professor of Political Science and Law
Sponsored by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies, Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies, and Miami European Union Center

April 3, 2003 (Thursday)
Joel Saxe
�Jewish Progressive Activism, Yiddish and Miami"
7:30 P.M., Wolfe Theater (BBC)
Co-sponsored by the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture

Fall 2002

September 14, 2002 (Saturday)
Annette Fromm, Jewish Museum of South Florida
"Hispanic Culture in Exile: Jewish Life in the Ottoman Balkans"
8:00 P.M., BBC AC1-194

October 24,2002 (Thursday)
Albert Barry
�Eastern European Synagogues�
11:00 A.M., MM6 160

October 24, 2002 (Thursday)
Albert Barry
�The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe�
7:30 P.M., Biscayne Bay Cam.pus WUC 244 A

October 29, 2002 (Tuesday)
Moshe Idel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Kabbalah and Philosophy: Jewish Thought in Medieval Spain-An Integrative Approach"
7:30 P.M., Kovens Center

November 7, 2002 (Thursday)
Dr. Jonathan Goldstein, State University of West Georgia
�The Jews of India, China, Japan: Comparative Perspectives"
11:00 A.M., MM6 160

November 7, 2002 (Thursday)
Jerry Silverman
�The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust�
7:30 P.M., location TBA
Co-sponsored with the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, UM�s Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, and the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial

November 16, 2002 (Saturday)
Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati
"From West to East: The Diversity of Liturgical Music"
8:00 P.M., AC1 194

December 7, 2002 (Saturday)
Mark Cohen, Princeton University
"The Origins of Judaism in the Medieval Arab World"
8:00 P.M., AC1 194

Spring 2002 Lecture and Workshop Series

January 19, 2002 (Saturday) Dana Kaplan, University of Missouri-Kansas City "Jews of Cuba"8:00 P.M.

February 9, 2002(Saturday) Norman Stillman, University of Oklahoma "Judeo-Arabic Tradition"8:00 P.M., BBC Wolfe Auditorium

February 14, 2002(Thursday) Adolfo Roitman"The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity" 7:00 P.M., Wolfe University Center 245

February 21, 2002(Thursday) Richard Freund, University of Hartford "Bar Kokhba Caves", 7:00 P.M., Wolfe University Center 245

March 7, 2002(Thursday) Yudit Greenberg, Rollins College "Love and Eros in the Song of Songs

February 27, 2002 (Wednesday) Margalit Bejarano, Institute of Contemporary Jewry "The Jews of Cuba in Miami: Issues of History and Identity" 9:30 P.M., BBC room TR1

March 9, 2002(Saturday) Nathan Katz, Florida International University "The Jews of China"8:00 P.M., BBC Academic One Building room 194

March 14, 2002 Leah Hochman, University of Florida "The Good and the Ugly: Perceptions of Jews and Judaism in Germany

April 27, 2002(Saturday) Aviva Ben-Ur, University of Massachusetts "The Afro-Judaic Community of Suriname"8:00 P.M., BBC Academic One Building room 194

Fall 2001 Lecture and Workshop Series

October 2001 Lawrence Schiffman, New York University "Dead Sea Scrolls"

October 4, 2001 Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University

October 23, 2001 Linda Zisquit, American-Israeli Poet Poetry Reading Biscayne Bay Campus ACI 232, 12:30-3:15 P.M.

November 4, 2001 Teitelboim Foundation "Sunday Holocaust Seminar"

November 8, 2001 Dr. Gideon Greif, Senior Researcher, Yad Vashem
"Jewish Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau"
ECS 135, 9:30-10:45, University Park Campus

November 11, 2001 Professor Yaakov S. Ariel, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill "Fundamentalist Movements in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" ACI-Rm 194, 2:00 P.M., Biscayne Bay Campus

November 2001 Professor Leah Hochman, University of Florida

Spring 2001 Lecture and Workshop Series

Curt Leviant, Rutgers University, January 11, 7:30 P.M. at Wolfe University Center #157, Biscayne Bay Campus.

"Fables in Jewish Literature"