Monday, June 1
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the
USSR, Israel, and even the USA."
A lecture by Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Professor Dekel-Chen, author of Farming the Red Land: Jewish
Agricultural Colonization and Local Power in Soviet Russia, 1924-41
(Yale University Press, 2005), serves as lecturer in the Hebrew
University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry and General History
Department and is currently a visiting research fellow in the Center
for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238
1825 SW Broadway
7.30 P.M.
ADMISSION FREE
Monday, June 1
"Scarcity, Conflict, and Security: The Future of Water for Israel and
Her Neighbors"
A lecture by Professor Gabriel Eckstein.
Professor Eckstein, the George W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law at
Texas Tech University and currently a visiting professor at Lewis &
Clark Law School, is a recognized expert in international water law
and policy.
Benson Hotel
309 SW Broadway
12 - 1:30 pm
Admission: $20 per person
Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland Community
Relations Committee and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic
Studies at PSU. To register, go to www.jewishportland.org or call
Becka Ross at 503-245-6219. For more information, contact Bob
Horenstein, Community Relations Director, at bob@jewishportland.org or
503-245-6496.
Tuesday, May 26
Redefining the Radical in Radical Jewish Feminism
with Gloria Greenfield
Gloria Z. Greenfield has been one of the major shapers of and activists
in radical Jewish feminism. She is currently a senior partner of the
Doc Emet Productions film company, and also Director of Community
Engagement for the Hebrew College of Boston. She has served as executive
director of the David Project, and as director of the Adult Learning
Collaborative in Boston, where she directed the Jewish Women's Studies
initiative, bringing the leading Jewish feminist scholars from North
America, Europe, and Israel to Boston.
For more information on Ms. Greenfield and the contribution of Jewish
women to American feminism, please visit http://jwa.org/feminism/.
Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294
1825 SW Broadway
1:00 P.M.
ADMISSION FREE
SPONSORED BY PSU WOMEN'S STUDIES, THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER AT PSU,
AND THE HAROLD SCHNITZER FAMILY PROGRAM IN JUDAIC STUDIES AT PSU.
Tuesday, May 12
Eurovision 2009
Join millions of viewers around the world, as we watch the 2009
Eurovision Song Contest semi-final live from Moscow, in which dozens of
countries from Albania to the United Kingdom will participate. Israel's
entry this year is a duet: the Jewish singer Noa and the Arab singer
Mira Awad, singing their Hebrew-Arabic-English pro-peace anthem, "There
Must Be Another Way."
Location: PSU Campus,
Smith Memorial Student Union
Multicultural Center
1825 SW Broadway
12:30 - 4:00 pm
ADMISSION FREE
Refreshments will be served
Wednesday, May 6
Film: The Forgotten Refugees
This vivid documentary recounts the history and twentieth-century
destruction of the indigenous Jewish communities of the Middle East.
Featuring archival footage and testimony from Jews who fled Egypt,
Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Morocco and Iran, the film explores the rich
heritage of Judeo-Arabic culture and the nearly one million Jews who
lived in North Africa and the Middle East until the middle of the 20th
century. 50 mins
Location: PSU Campus,
Smith Memorial Student Union, room 228
1825 SW Broadway
1:00 - 1:50 pm
ADMISSION FREE
Monday May 4 (10th of Iyyar)
JEWISH THEATRE COLLABORATIVE &
THE YIDDISH HOUR PRESENT
Happy Hour with Sholem Aleichem:
A Story telling and Klezmer Rocking celebration
of Sholem Aleichem's Yahrzeit
Location: PSU Campus
Smith Memorial Student Union
Food for Thought Cafe
1825 SW Broadway
5:30-7 PM
ADMISSION FREE
Sponsored by The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at
Portland State University
Sunday, April 26
Why Chassidism Didn't Spread to the West
A lecture by Professor Shaul Stampfer
Professor Stampfer is the Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and
East European
Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: PSU Campus,
Smith Memorial Student Union, room 236
1825 SW Broadway
10:00 am
ADMISSION FREE
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School
"Brunch and Learn" Program
April 21st
Ishmael Khaldi
Lecture: "From Bedouin Shepherd to Israeli Consul: One Man's Story of
Israel's Culture, Society, and Politics from the Perspective of a
Bedouin Minority Living in the Jewish State"
Lecture and discussion with Ishmael Khaldi, Deputy Consul General of
Israel for the Pacific Northwest
Date: April 21
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway
Parkway North (NW corner of the building, ground floor)
Co-sponsored by: Greater Portland Hillel, PSU Jewish Student Union,
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU, Oregon
Students in Support of Israel, and the Consulate General of Israel to
the Pacific Northwest
For more information, contact Linda Maizels, 503-725-4023, lmaizels@pdx.edu
Tuesday, March 31
The Third Annual Sara Glasgow Cogan Lecture
"American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust"
A lecture by Professor Hasia Diner
Dr. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American
Jewish History at New York University and the Director of the
Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.
Location: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom (3rd Floor)
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
7:30 pm
ADMISSION FREE
For more information contact Linda Maizels at lmaizels@pdx.edu or call
503-725-4023
Monday, March 2
The Fourth Annual Gus & Libby Solomon Lecture
"In Search of American Jewish Heritage"
A lecture by Professor Beth Wenger
Beth Wenger is Associate Professor of History at the University of
Pennsylvania where
she serves as Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Wenger’s most
recent book, The
Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America
(Doubleday, 2007) was
named a National Jewish Book Award finalist. The book is a companion
volume to
the 2008 PBS documentary, The Jewish Americans, and Wenger served on the
board
of distinguished scholars advising the series. She is also the author of
New York Jews and
the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise, published by Yale University
Press in 1996 and
awarded the Salo Baron Prize in Jewish History from the American Academy
of Jewish
Research.
Location: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom (3rd Floor)
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
7pm
ADMISSION FREE
For more information contact Linda Maizels
at lmaizels@pdx.edu or call 503-725-4023
And don't miss a second chance to hear Professor Wenger speak
Tuesday, March 3
"War Stories: The Remaking of American Jewry,"
Location: Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
12 pm (noon)
ADMISSION FREE
Thursday, February 19
"Virtual Jews: Reviving Community Memories among Moroccan Jews in
Cyberspace"
A lecture by Professor Aomar Boum
University of Arizona
Until the early 1960s, Morocco housed one of the largest and most
vibrant Jewish
communities of the Arab world. Today, less than three thousand Jews
live in few
major urban centers in separate neighborhoods and with less contact with
their
Muslim neighbors. Nevertheless, throughout the world, Moroccan Jewish
communities continue to maintain their historical relationships with their
native homeland. While some visit the sites of local shrines and attend
religious festivals throughout the country, others explore Internet
sites that
allow them to perform what they call "virtual pilgrimages" to cemeteries
where
members of their families are buried and places where Jewish communities
lived.
This lecture
looks at the ability of these communities to foster a virtual
community of memory and at how cyberspace is creating a new Moroccan Jewish
community in the Internet.
Location: Smith Memorial Student Union
Room 236 (Cascade Room)
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
7:30 pm
ADMISSION FREE
Wednesday, January 21
TWO public lectures by Paul Liptz
Professor of Middle East and African History at Tel Aviv University
1. Moving to the Middle East: Contemporary Immigrants in Israel
School of Business at Portland State University
615 SW Harrison Street
Room 190
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
ADMISSION FREE
For more information, contact Linda Maizels, 503-725-4023,
lmaizels@pdx.edu
2. Israel: Confronting the Strategic Challenges Ahead
Mittleman Jewish Community Center Ballroom
6651 SW Capitol Highway
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
ADMISSION FREE
For more information, contact Community Relations Director Bob
Horenstein, 503-245-6496, bob@jewishportland.org
Both lectures presented in collaboration with the Community Relations
Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland
Thursday, January 22, 2009
7:00 pm
"PURSUING NAZI WAR CRIMINALS"
A lecture and presentation by Eli M. Rosenbaum
Mittleman Jewish Community Center Ballroom
6651 SW Capitol Highway
Lecture is free and open to the public
Reception to Follow
Presented in collaboration with Lewis and Clark Law School and in
association with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, Solomon's
Legacy, and the Greater Portland Hillel
You Are Invited To Attend
A Brown Bag Lecture Series
Sponsored by PSU Judaic Studies, PSU History, PSU English, and Phi Alpha Theta
Wednesday, November 19
Noon
Cramer Hall 447 (Hoffmann Library)
"Defending God's House: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Monotheistic Traditions before the Crusades"
Prof. John Ott (History)
Tuesday, November 25
Noon
Neuberger Hall 407
"The Jew, The Muslim, and Permanent War" (an analysis of race and racism in connection with religion since 9/11)
Prof. Lee Medovoi (English)
Wednesday, December 3
Noon
Cramer Hall 447 (Hoffmann Library)
"Jews, Whiteness, and Antisemitism in 21st-Century America"
Linda Maizels (Judaic Studies)
Wednesday, December 10
Noon
Cramer Hall 447 (Hoffmann Library)
"Report on the first Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel program, June 2008"
Prof. Martin Zwick (Systems Science)
For more information, please contact lmaizels@pdx.edu
Wednesday October 29
An evening with Israeli author and award-winning filmmaker
Etgar Keret
Including a showing of the film Jellyfish, winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
5:30 pm: Film screening
7:30 pm: Discussion with the audience
General Admission $5
Students Free with ID
Please join us at 3 pm in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238
(The Browsing Lounge) for a conversation with the author and PSU students.
For samples of Keret's stories, please contact Professor Michael
Weingrad (weingrad@pdx.edu).
Co-sponsored by PSU Judaic Studies, Portland Hillel, Portland Chapter of Hadassah, and the Oregon Area Jewish Committee
The Broadway Building at PSU
1970 SW Broadway - Room 222
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