Thursday, April 10
7:00 pm
The Native American Student and Community Center
PSU Campus
710 SW Jackson Street
Admission: Free

From his role in launching the alternative Jewish press as a student in the 1960s to his contributions today as one of the most respected voices in Jewish literary scholarship, Professor Alan Mintz has always thought and written passionately and provocatively about the challenges of Jewish survival and the richness of Jewish culture. He is the cofounder of two seminal Jewish intellectual journals, Response and Prooftexts, and has authored or edited seven books on topics ranging from modern Hebrew literature to the shaping of Holocaust memory in American popular culture.

As the recipient of grants from the National Foundation for the Humanities and the Avi Chai Foundation, he has been a leader in Holocaust educational development, and Hebrew immersion training for day school educators. He joined the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he holds the Chana Kekst Professorship in Hebrew Literature, after ten years as the Braun Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at Brandeis University. His current research centers on the history of Hebrew in America, and its lessons for the future of Jewish culture and identity.

Wednesday February 20, 2008
7:15-9:00 pm
Native American Student and Community Center
710 SW Jackson
Admission Free

Co-sponsored with The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland Community Relations Committee This program, part of Portland's "Israel at 60 Celebration," will explore six decades of Israeli-German political, cultural and economic relations which have evolved from under the shadow of the Holocaust. Current issues, such as Iran~Rs pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will also be discussed.

Consul General Akov joined the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1985 and has served as Director of Congressional Affairs in Jerusalem (2000-2004), Counselor for Congressional Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C. (1995-2000), Director of the Foreign Ministry~Rs diplomatic training program (1993-1995) and Consul at the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, GA (1989-1993).

Consul General Schuette joined the German Foreign Service in 1981 and has served as Deputy Head of Division for Middle East Affairs and Head of Division for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. He also has served in the German embassies in Moscow, Tel Aviv and Rome and in the German Mission to the United Nations in New York.

This powerful new feature documentary produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center examines the current resurgence of violent antisemitism in Europe, looking at the dangerous nexus of Islamic extremism and neo-Nazism. Written and directed by documentary Oscar-winners Richard Trank and Rabbi Marvin Hier. The film will be followed by a panel discussion including PSU faculty in Judaic Studies, Islamic Studies, and European Studies.

Wednesday, October 31
2:30-4:30 pm
co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland Community Relations Committee

Award-winning translator and MacArthur "Genius Grant" Recipient Peter Cole speaks about his new anthology

"Cole's translations constitute a tour-de-force."-Ha'aretz

"The seven great poets of Cole's Dream provoke love in any reader."

-Harold Bloom

Sunday, October 14
7:00 pm
Hoffman Hall

co-sponsored by the NW Institute for Judaic Studies and the Middle East Studies Center at PSU

Copies of The Dream of the Poem (Princeton University, 2007) will be available for purchase.

for more information, contact lmaizels@pdx.edu

Tuesday, October 16
Noon
Smith 228 (Multicultural Center)
co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Friends of History

How Tevye Learned to Fiddle: Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye in Yiddish, Hebrew, English & Russian Film
Professor Anita Norich

Wednesday, May 17, Noon
Portland State University
Browsing Lounge
238 Smith Memorial
Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway (at Montgomery)

Anita Norich teaches Yiddish, Jewish, and Holocaust literature at the University of Michigan. She wrote The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer and On the Yiddish Question. Anita Norich is the final presenter in the 2005-2006 Writers & Scholars Lecture Series of the Institute for Judaic Studies.

• Free to students / $15 for the public.
• Make check payable to Writers & Scholars.
• Mail to:
  Writers & Scholars
  2900 SW Peaceful Lane
  Portland, OR 97239

JEWISH HUMOR: WHO’S LAUGHING?
Hear rare recordings of Jewish comedians with folklorist Norm Cohen in a preview of our four short summer courses.

Thursday, May 18, 5-7:30 p.m.
Smith Memorial Student Union
Appetizers served
RSVP to pearlmana@pdx.edu

A TASTE OF HEBREW
Nosh on some hummus and sample our introductory Hebrew course. Your chance to preview our Summer Ulpan and Fall evening Hebrew classes.

Tuesday, May 23, 7:30-8:30 p.m
Science Building 2, Room 104

Looking at Jewish-Christian Relations: Visual Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

A day-long multidisciplinary conference on Jewish-Christian interactions and their representation in art, literature, and film

Presented by The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies

Free and open to the public

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31—NOON TO 8 P.M.
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236
1825 SW Broadway (at Montgomery)
RSVP for all or part of the day to: pearlmana@pdx.edu

Noon-1:30 p.m.—Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College Jewish and Christian Practices and Polemics in Medieval Art

2:30-4:00 p.m.—Judith Baskin, University of Oregon Educating Jewish and Christian Young Women in Medieval France and Germany: The Roles of Class, Religion, and Gender

4:15-5:45 p.m.—A Multidisciplinary Panel Looking at Jewish-Christian Relations in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods: From Illuminated Manuscripts to the Merchant of Venice Anat Gilboa, PSU, Amy Greenstadt, PSU, and Kate Regan, University of Portland

7:00-8:00 p.m.—Special Screening of a new documentary The Sephardic Legacy of Segovia, Spain: Pentimento of the Past Followed by questions and answers with documentary filmmaker Kate Regan