Upcoming Events:
(2008 - 2009)

FALL 2009

Jewish Life and Culture Month
From the middle of October to the middle of November, the
Jewish Studies program will be hosting many events to
celebrate Jewish life and culture. The following have been
planned:

Monday, October 19th, 2009
Women's Rosh Chodesh Dinner
6:00pm, Levine Hillel Center

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
"Israel and World Jewry in the 21st Century:
Close Family or Distant Relatives? "
Sergio Dellapergola, PhD, Hebrew University
6:30pm, Location TBA

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Heinz Kounio, author and Holocaust Survivor, will discuss
his experiences in Salonika and Auschwitz during WWII
6:30pm, Location TBA

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Steven Bowman, PhD, University of Cincinnati, author of The Holocaust in
Salonika: Eyewitness Account, will be joined in a panel discussion with
Heinz Kounio and UIC faculty members
4:00pm, Location TBA

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Suzanne Wasserman, CUNY, will discuss and screen her film,
Thunder in Guyana, about the late Janet Jagan, born and raised
in Hyde Park and former president of Guyana.
4:00pm, Location TBA

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Hasia Diner, NYU, will discuss the state of Jewish Studies
in America and in Chicago. Reception to follow.
6:30pm, Location TBA


Please mark these dates on your calendar and watch for more details to come!

Past Events:

SPRING 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 "Psalms as Poetry: Yesterday and Today" Alicia Ostriker 3:00pm, 2028 UH

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 "In Search of Lost Spiritual Peace " Brown Bag lunch: Eli Shai Shibi 12:30pm, 650 UH

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 "Palestinian Women in Terrorism: Women's Oppression or Liberation?" Edna Erez (UIC Criminal Justice) 3:45pm, UIC Honors College Library (Burnham Hall)

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Women and Family Life: A Symposium 1:00pm - 7:30pm, Levine Hillel Center Speakers: 1:00pm - Sylvia Barack Fishman 2:00pm - Elizabeth Loentz 3:00pm - Carmel Chiswick 4:00pm - Jessica Lippman and Matthew Lippman 5:00pm - Farideh Goldin

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
"Rabbinic Heroes"
Barry Wimpfheimer (Northwestern University)
Time, Location TBA

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
A Hillel event:
"An Afternoon Discussion About Current Events in Israel"
The Levine Hillel Center, Time TBA

Monday, April 20, 2009 "Radical Islam and Terrorism" Raphael Israeli (The Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 9:30am, Room 401 UH (601 S. Morgan St.)

"The Dark Side of the Web: Terror on the Internet " Gabriel Weimann (School of International Service (SIS)) 11:30pm, Room 1169 BSB (1007 W. Harrison St.)

"The Dhimmis: The Story of Jews in Arab Lands" Raphael Israeli (The Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 1:30pm, Room 650 UH (601 S. Morgan St.)

Friday, April 24 , 2009 - Friday, May 1st, 2009
A Hillel event:
"Celebrating the Peoples of Israel!"
Featuring the hit Israeli band, Strong Black Coffee, Yom
Ha'Atzmaut Party on the Quad, West Campus lunch, lectures
special Israel Shabbat 100 and more!

Call the Hillel Center at 312.829.1595 for more info!

Monday, April 27th, 2009 "“The Bombing of Dresden and The Night of the Broken Glass: Cultural Memory in Durs Gruenbein's ‘Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt’”" Anne Fuchs (Professor of Modern German Literature and Culture at UCD, Dublin) 9:30am, Room 401 UH (601 S. Morgan St.)

FALL 2008

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Welcome Luncheon for Visiting Israel Scholar:
Dr. Nadav Davidovitch
(by invitation only)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 "Health and Immigration in Israel: From Melting Pot to Multi-culturalism" Visiting Israel Scholar Dr. Nadav Davidovitch UIC School of Public Health (Room 109) 1603 W. Taylor Street 6:00pm: Conversation and light refreshments 7:00pm: Lecture All are welcome to this FREE EVENT!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
"Toward a National Environmental Health
Action Plan: The Israeli Experience"
Dr. Nadav Davidovitch
Dean's Lecture -- School of Public Health -- Location TBA

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
"Public Health, Culture, & Colonial Medicine:
Smallpox & Variolation in Palestine during the British Mandate"
Dr. Nadav Davidovitch

Location: Cook County Hospital
Old Hektoen Auditorium, 1st floor
627 S. Wood

Thursday, October 16, 2008 " ' I Will Never See It Again, But It Remains Fixed in My Memory' (Manes Sperber): Visions and Memories of the Shtetl in German-Jewish Literature" A lecture by Primus Heinz Kucher (Max Kade Scholar) 12:30pm, Levine Hillel Center

Thursday, October 23, 2008 "Multicultural Israel: From Pragmatism to Legal Battles, Toward Identity Conversation" Brown Bag lunch: Michal Alberstein (Bar Ilan University) 12:30pm, 650 University Hall

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - screening of Theresienstadt Looked Like a Spa (50 minutes) Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Discussion with filmmakers Nadja Seelich and Bernd Neuburger entitled "Diaspora, Exile, Genocide: Aspects of the European Jewish Experience in Literature and Film”

Monday, November 3, 2008 "Jews and the Evolution of Photojournalism: From 'Beneath Contempt' to Elegance" Michael Berkowitz (University College London) 12:30, Institute for the Humanities

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 "Recalling the Survivors: Between Memory and Forgetfulness of Hospitalized Holocaust Survivors" Visiting Israel Scholar Dr. Nadav Davidovitch 2:00pm, Levine Hillel Center

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Study Abroad in Israel Info Session
11:30am - 12:30pm
Levine Hillel Center (corner of Morgan and Taylor)

Monday, November 17, 2008
Faculty Meeting
TBA

SPRING 2008

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Mimis Cohen lecture

Tuesday, February 6, 2008
Brown Bag lunch: Sandy Sufian
12:30-1:30pm, 650 University Hall

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Faculty welcome luncheon for visiting
Israel Scholar Shlomo Shoham
(faculty and invitation only)
1:00pm, Metro Klub, Crowne Plaza Hotel

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Colloquium: "The Nazi Regime and the Holocaust."
Prof. Dagmar C.G. Lorenz, (Director of Jewish Studies)
Professor Shlomo Shoham (Tel Aviv University Law School)
1:45pm, 4th Floor BSB, Room #4011

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 "International Terrorism: Dynamics and Prevention" Visiting Israel Scholar Shlomo Shoham, internationally acclaimed expert in Criminology. Conference Room A, UIC Student Services Building 6:00pm: Conversation and light refreshments 7:00pm: Lecture All are welcome to this FREE EVENT!

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 "Women in the Israeli Collective, A Personal and Historical Survey of a Century of Changing Roles and Aspirations" Nancy Gebhardt, Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program 2:00pm, Hillel

Wednesday, April 1, 2008
Reading and Conversation with Adam Mansbach
on his critically acclaimed novel The End of the Jews
Jane Adams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted Street
5:30pm - Refreshments
6:00pm - Reading

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
"Global Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism"
A lecture by Amos Guiora
UIC Student Center East, Room 605

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 A lecture by Steven Beller, author of Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction 2:00pm, UIC Institute for the Humanities Join us for refreshments! All are welcome to this FREE EVENT!

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 "The Nazi Regime as Macro Criminology and the Holocaust as Macro Victimology." Visiting Israel Scholar Shlomo Shoham Prof. Dagmar C.G. Lorenz, (Director of Jewish Studies) Matthew R. Lippman, (Professor of Criminal Justice at UIC) 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Levine Hillel Center

FALL 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Film: Hester Street (1975), dir. Joan Miklin Silver
1:00pm; Lecture Center D 5

Monday, October 15, 2007
"Talking your way to Whiteness: Jews, ethnicity, and language"
Professor Neil Jacobs (Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies, Ohio State University)
1:00pm, Lecture Center D 5

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Barry Chiswick Sklare Award Lecture
4:00pm, Hillel

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Brown Bag lunch: Edna Erez
12:30, 650 University Hall

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Film: David (1979), dir. Peter Lilienthal; Jurek Becker
1:00pm; Lecture Center D 5

Monday, November 5, 2007
Lore Segal - Reading from her recent work, Shakespeare's Kitchen
7:00pm, Barbara's Bookstore

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Jewish Medical Ethics Symposium
4:30pm: Reception
5:00pm: Program Begins
College of Medicine Research Building (CMRB)--5th Floor

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Monday, November 12, 2007
Film: Beaufort (2007), dir. Joseph Cedar
Discussion afterwards with Dr. Isaac Hoffman (UIC Hebrew Lecturer)
7:00pm, Levine Hillel Center

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 (Hillel Event)
"Arab Reporter for the Jerusalem Post. An insider's view of Palestinian society"
Khalid Abu Toameh
12:00pm, Burnham Hall (Honors College)
Questions? Contact the Hillel Center for information!

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
"Germans vs. Russians? Reassessing Jewish Americanization
    projects in the Chicago Ghetto 1880-1914"
Lecturer: Tobias Brinkmann
1:00pm, Lecture Center D 5

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Film: Everything is Illuminated (2005), dir. Liev Schreiber
1:00pm; Lecture Center D 5

  Other Past Events:

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