The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies is organizing a series of lectures and conversations bearing on the October 7th Hamas attack, Israeli responses, the Gaza war, the histories embedded in the crisis, and the effects and implications for Jewish and Palestinian inhabitants of the region and for Israeli society. Upcoming events include:
Upcoming Roundtable
Susannah Heschel, Eli Lederhendler, and Tony Michels, "The American Jewish Situation Since the October 7th Hamas Attack and the Gaza War"
Wednesday, April 17, 12pm
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Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and the chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth. She is the author of Jüdischer Islam: Islam und Deutsch-Jüdische Selbstbestimmung (Mathes und Seitz, 2018), The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton, 2008), and Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago, 1998), among many other works. She has a forthcoming book, co-written with Sarah Imhoff, The Woman Question in Jewish Studies (Princeton).
Eli Lederhendler is the Stephen S. Wise Chair in American Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of American Jewry: A New History (Cambridge, 2016), Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920 (Cambridge, 2009), and New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970 (Syracuse, 2001), among many other works, and co-editor of the journal Studies in Contemporary Jewry.
Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (NYU, 2012) and A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2005), and the co-editor (with Mitchell B. Hart) of The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 8: The Modern World, 1815-2000.
Previous Talks in the Series
Thursday, February 22, 6pm
Ofer Ashkenazi, "How Civil Society Saved and Will (Possibly) Destroy Israel: October 7 and the Future of Israel’s Democracy"
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February 7, 2024
Eva Illouz, "Israeli Society Since the October 7 Attack"
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November 27, 2023
Dahlia Scheindlin, "Israel, Palestine, War and Democracy"
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November 15, 2023
Arie Dubnov, "Gaza in the Israeli Imagination"
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October 25, 2023
Menachem Klein, “The Hamas Attack and Israel’s Present War in Gaza: Motivations, Strategies, Politics, Implications”
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