Please contact Prof. Ronit Engel, Coordinator of the Modern Hebrew Language Program, with questions at ronit@sas.upenn.edu.

Interested in tutoring at a Jewish Day School this semester? Come to this organizational meeting to learn more.

Penn's Jewish Studies Program has an exciting program with Akiba Hebrew High School that would allow qualified undergraduates to help teach Akiba students within the classroom context. Akiba Hebrew Academy would like to recruit a group of undergraduate to assist Jewish Studies teachers in the classroom on a once-a-week basis. Tutors would interact directly with the students, helping out with reading texts during chavruta time, processing paper topics, or finding appropriate resources in the library. Teaching times at Akiba can be negotiated around class schedules and the Jewish Studies Program will provide for all transportation.

Depending on the class, a small amount of student teaching might also be possible. Tutors would work primarily with the 10th grade and would be supervised by individual teachers and the Head of Jewish Studies. Transportation would be provided. Each tutor will received a $250 stipend per semester (10-11 weeks).

Founded in 1946, Akiba Hebrew Academy is a 6th-12th grade non-denominational Jewish day school in Merion, PA, with an enrollment of 330 students.

NB: No background in teaching is required but this program is specifically addressed to students with a strong background in either Jewish Studies or the study of Bible. Knowledge of Hebrew is required.

Hillel's Scholar In Residence Weekend welcoms Professor Lawrence Schiffman, Chairman of the Judaic Studies Department at NYU, and world renowned scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Don't miss these lively and fascinating lectures!

Friday January 19, 8:00 PM - "Who Was a Jew? Controversies over Jewish Identity from Ancient to Modern Times"
Saturday January 20, 3:15 PM - "Who Wrote the Bible, Orthodoxy and Biblical Criticism"

Sponsored by Hillel's Orthodox Community at Penn, in cooperation with the Jewish Studies Program.

Tenth Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture on: "Defining the Karaites: Between Self-Perception and Scholarly Evaluation"

A Textual Seminar with Prof. Haggai Ben-Shammai (Department of Arabic, Hebrew University)

Many scholars identify the Karaites as the "oldest Jewish sect still existing." However, this description does not necessarily reflect the Karaites' own understanding of their position within the wider Jewish community. In this program, Prof. Ben-Shammai will read and analyze a Karaite document from 12th century Byzantium to show how Karaite self-perception compares with widely accepted notions in modern scholarship about their relationship with Judaism at large.

Please join us for this unique opportunity to engage in the study of a fascinating text with one of the world's most prominent scholars of Karaite literature and culture. If you plan to attend the program, please read the study text beforehand. It is available through the CAJS website at http://www.cajs.upenn.edu/meyerhofflecturepaper.pdf No rsvp required.

Prof. Ben-Shammai is one of the world's leading scholars of Karaism and Judeo-Arabic culture. He has published critical editions, commentaries, and articles on works by the most important Judeo-Arabic and Karaite thinkers including Saadia Gaon, Judah ha-Levi, Yefet ben Eli and Maimonides and has trained a generation of scholars working in the field of Judeao-Arabic studies. Prof. Ben Shammai serves as director of the Center for Judaeo-Arabic Studies and the Karaite Project at the Ben Zvi Institute. He is also co-director of the Center for Biblical and Judaic Studies at the State University in St. Petersburg (Russia). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Yeshiva University and Clare Hall, Cambridge University where he is a life member. Prof. Ben-Shammai is currently the Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

This lecture series was established by the Joseph Meyerhoff Memorial Trusts to honor the generosity and service of Herbert D. and Eleanor Meyerhoff Katz to Penn's History Program and Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the History Department, the Middle East Center and the Jewish Studies Program.

Jonathan Sarna, (title TBA)

Sponsored by Penn Hillel, in cooperation with The Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series.

Sara Feinstein will lecture on her book, Sunshine, Blossoms and Blood: H.N. Bialik In His Time, A Literary Biography (University Press of America).

Hayyim Nahman Bialik (January 9, 1873 - July 4, 1934), is considered one of the first, and certainly the most influential, of modern Hebrew poets, and is widely recognized as Israel's National Poet.

Feinstein holds a Doctor of Education from Columbia University, specializing in the teaching of Languages and Literatures. She lectures regularly on Hebrew, Yiddish, and French Literature, in the United States, Canada, and Eastern Europe. She is a graduate of the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute of New York and of the International Teachers of French Program at the University of Bordeaux. She did her extensive research on H.N. Bialik at the Oxford Center for Advanced Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at Bar-Ilan University. She was born in Eastern Europe, grew up in Israel, and was educated in the United States.

Sponsored by The Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series. A light reception will follow the lecture. Click here to print the flyer.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on "Old Histories, New Itineraries: Museum of the History of Polish Jews"

Among the deepest motives for travel is the need to grieve and to commemorate loss. Not surprisingly therefore, Jewish visitors to Poland have focused on sites of the Holocaust. Eminent scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies, New York University, asks how this situation may change once the thousand-year story of the Jews in Poland becomes widely available in the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a cultural achievement fraught with controversy in post-Communist Poland.

Event free and open to the public. Click here to register (required) or call 215.573.8280

Sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, in cooperation with the National Museum of American Jewish History.

Cornelia Wilhelm on "Community in Modernity - The Independent Order B'nai B'rith, 1843-1914."

Cornelia Wilhelm is currently teaching as Aresty Visiting Professor at the Bildner Center for Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. Her home university is the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany, She has been visiting professor at the Univeristy of Innsbruck, Austria (2006) and visiting fellow at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, OH, (1997-2002).

Dr. Wilhelm published a book on Nazi Propaganda in the United States, 1933-1945 (Bewegung oder Verein? Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspolitik in den USA, 1933-1945). Her second book Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Burgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und judische Identitat in den Orden B'nai B'rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843-1914 is currently in press and will be published by the German Historical Institute in Washington DC.

This lecture is sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, and is part of a Spring 2007 Mini Lecture Series in Modern Jewish History. It is free and open to the public. Reservations appreciated but not required. Please call 215-898-6654 or jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. A light reception will follow the lecture. Click here to print the flyer.

Richard Cohen on "The Wandering Jew: Cultural and Historical Pathways Through Time and Space"

Event free and open to the public. Click here to register (requested) or call 215.573.8280

"The Wandering Jew, "Ahasver, is a homeless soul who knows no rest. Emerging in Christian legend in the Middle Ages, he (very occasionally, she) has meandered through vast areas of western art as a vehicle of widely differing cultural significance. Even though he appeared in many unusual places and at particular times, he could often be seen with some characteristic traits -- carrying a sack on his back, holding a staff, and wearing a small purse.

Follow international expert Richard Cohen as he explores the history and symbolism surrounding this archetypal traveler. Cohen is the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies at Hebrew University.

Suggested Reading:
The Wandering Jew by Euge`ne Sue, Project Gutenberg
Wandering Jew, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wandering Jew by Stephan Heym. Northwestern University Press, 1999.
A Guest for the Night by S. Y. Agnon, translated from the Hebrew by Misha Louvish. Wisconsin Press, 2004.

The University of Pennsylvania Library's Judaica Collections, in conjunction with Penn's Jewish Studies Program, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, will hold a special event to mark the hundredth anniversary of the chartering of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, today called the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Dropsie College was the first institution in the world accredited to confer Ph.D.s in Jewish studies. A reception will follow in the Rosenwald Gallery.

Free and open to the public (please bring photo ID). Reservations appreciated but not required. Please call 215-898-6654 or jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Yiddish Sing-along

Everyone is welcome!
Free kosher pizza!

Sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania's Jewish Studies Program, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Hillel.

Orly Rahimiyan on "The Image of the Jews and Judaism in the Latter Part of 20th Century Iran"

The lecture examines the transformations in the Jews' image in the latter part of 20th century Iran. It first defines and characterizes the Jews' image during Pahlavid times. Later, it checks whether this image continued or was changed with the emergence of the Islamic Republic and for what reasons. Possible changes in the Jews' image/s are understood as deriving from the specific historical context and the Jews' status prevalent at that time. The research presented is based on the literature of the period as well as newspapers and visual media.

Orly R. Rahimiyan is a PhD student in the Middle Eastern Department at Ben-Gurion University, Israel and a Fulbright scholar. She is a Teaching Assistant at Ben-Gurion University and a Research Fellow at The Ben Zvi Institute, researching the Jewish communities of the Middle East. Her research interests are the history of the Iranian Jewry in the 19th and 20th century as well as Iranian history. Her doctoral dissertation is titled The Images of the Jews in 20th-century Iran. She received her BA and MA Summa Cum Laude from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her MA dissertation (the Hebrew University, 2003) is titled The Jewish Leadership in Tehran in the 19th and 20th Centuries and was written under the supervision of Prof. Amnon Netzer. She published her article 'The Organization of the Jewish Community in Iran in the 19th and 20th Centuries,' in H Saadoun ed. The Community Book, Iran (2005, Hebrew).

This lecture is sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, and is part of a Spring 2007 Mini Lecture Series in Modern Jewish History. It is free and open to the public. Reservations appreciated but not required. Please call 215-898-6654 or jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. A light reception will follow the lecture.

In Spring 2007, Penn's Jewish Studies Program will be co-sponsoring a major exhibition of rare Jewish books from Philadelphia public collections at the famous Rosenbach Library and Museum in Center City. Entitled "CHOSEN!: Philadelphia's Great Hebraica," the exhibit is being curated by David Stern, Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature, who has spent the last five years searching through various collections in the Philadelphia area for important and all but unknown Jewish books.

The exhibit will include some fifty items - among them, handwritten manuscripts going back to the early Middle Ages, early printed books, and illustrated Esther scrolls - drawn from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania libraries (including the Dropsie College collection), the Free Library, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Knesseth Israel Temple, Congregation Mikveh Israel, and the Rosenbach Library and Museum. "Stars" of the show include the earliest surviving near-complete Passover haggadah, a 13th century Spanish Bible, Jewish books censored by the Inquisition, the first printed prayerbook, and a 6" by 4" leaf of parchment containing the entire scroll of Esther with six illustrated medallions.

By bringing these dispersed treasures together, the exhibit hopes to show the rich stories that these books tell about the Jewish historical and cultural experience as well as the tales of the collectors who brought these books to Philadelphia to their present homes. The exhibit is scheduled to open on March 28, 2007 through July 29, 2007, and will include regular tours and public programming.

Rosenbach Library and Museum. The main entrance is at the Maurice Sendak Building at 2008 DeLancey. The Rosenbach is accessible to persons with disabilities. Please call 215.732.1600 for more information. http://www.rosenbach.org/home/home.html

Joanna Michlic on "The Past and the Future of the Memory of the Holocaust in Poland."

Between 2000 and 2002, the publication of Jan T. Gross's Neighbors triggered Poland's most profound public debate on the Holocaust. The debate showed the memory of the Holocaust was highly divisive in public discourse, history writings and collective memory. Yet the debate was also evidence of post-Communist Poland's genuine and serious engagement with the repressed and forgotten Jewish past and the memory of the Holocaust. This lecture, based on research from Michlic's book Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880s up to the Present, will discuss coming to terms with the Holocaust in contemporary Poland. It will focus on the extent to which Polish public intellectuals have deconstructed past anti-Jewish tropes in Polish culture and to what extent these anti-Jewish ideas still play a role in historical writings and in the treatment of Christian Polish rescuers of Jews.

Joanna B. Michlic is an Assistant Professor in the Holocaust and Genocide Program at the Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey. She received her PhD at University of London in 2000. Between 2000 and 2003, she was a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem. Between 2003 and 2005, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. She is a member of the International History Initiative, and The Historical Commissions Project on Eastern Europe sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (New York) and Prof. Elazar Barkan of Columbia University.

This lecture is sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, and is part of a Spring 2007 Mini Lecture Series in Modern Jewish History. It is free and open to the public. Reservations appreciated but not required. Please call 215-898-6654 or jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. A light reception will follow the lecture.

Hoshanna! Hebrew Music of the High Baroque, and a Talk by Israel Adler

On March 31 and April 1, 2007, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare will assemble fifty artists in Philadelphia and Haverford to perform Hoshanna! Hebrew Music of the High Baroque, featuring long-lost, eighteenth-century works for soloists, chorus and orchestra, composed in Hebrew in the styles of Handel and Haydn for Jewish communities in Italy and The Netherlands. This program symbolizes an extraordinary intersection of Jewish ceremony and Western art music during The Enlightenment, an era of peace and curiosity among cultures.

The music of Hoshanna! is not just rare and wonderful; it?fs practically unique. The program's centerpiece, Elyon, Melits u-Mastin (God, Defender & Accuser), is an anonymous Handel-style oratorio for three soloists, chorus and orchestra composed for the Italian Ashkenazik synagogue of Casale Monferrato in 1733for celebrations that close the Jewish new year. Another featured work is G.C. Lidarti's Kol Haneshama for solo soprano and orchestra, a virtuosic setting of Psalm 150 reminiscent of Mozart's famous Exsultate Jubilate, and commissioned for the Sephardic community of Amsterdam ca. 1770. Both works will receive their U.S. premieres in Hoshanna!.

Flutist Gwyn Roberts, lutenist Richard Stone and violinist Emlyn Ngai will lead Tempesta di Mare's celebrated 20-piece baroque orchestra of brass, woodwinds, strings, lute and harpsichord. Vocal soloists are international Yiddish operetta star Nell Snaidas, soprano, Metropolitan Opera National Council winner and local cantor Sheryl Heather Cohen, soprano, and acclaimed Bach specialist David Newman, bass. The 30-voice Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Thomas Lloyd, Director, will provide the choral forces.

Dr. Israel Adler, discoverer of Elyon, Melits u-Mastin, is scheduled to speak about the social and religious contexts that gave rise to these extraordinary works one hour prior to each performance. Adler, founder of the Jewish Music Research Center at Jerusalem?fs Hebrew University, is the world's preeminent authority on the modern rediscovery of early Jewish musical culture. Tempesta di Mare has worked closely with Adler and the JMRC in preparing this program.

Hoshanna! is supported in part by The Philadelphia Music Project, an Artistic Initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by The University of the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, and The University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies and the Jewish Studies Program. Tempesta di Mare is an Ensemble in Residence at Haverford College, thanks to the John B. Hurford Humanities Center.

Israel Adler's talk begins at 7:30 pm, and the performance begins at 8:30 pm. For information and tickets visit us at: www.tempestadimare.org or call (215) 577-8776

Sibylle Quack on "History, Politics, and Public Debate: The Making of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin"

In May 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and its Information Center opened in Berlin. The process of building the Memorial was met with conflict and public debate. Sibylle Quack, who was the managing director of the memorial foundation, will explore the difficulties of remembering the Holocaust in the context of Germany's collective memory and public policy.

Sibylle Quack, the 2006-07 Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies, studied history, political science, and German literature at the Universities of Giessen, Hannover and Berlin. She holds a doctorate from the University of Hannover, Germany, where she also taught as a Professor of political science. Prior to coming to NYU, she was the executive director of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and in charge of setting up the central memorial with a new exhibition on the Holocaust. She is the author and editor of several books, among them Geistig frei und Niemandes Knecht. Paul Levi und Rosa Luxemburg (1986); Between Sorrow and Strength. Women Refugees of the Nazi Period (1995); Auf dem Weg zur Realisierung: das Denkmal fur die ermordeten Juden Europas und der Ort der Information -- Architektur und historisches Konzept (2002), and Dimensionen der Verfolgung: Opfer und Opfergruppen im Nationalsozialismus (2003); Cora Berliner, Gertrud Kolmar, Hannah Arendt. Strassen am Denkmal ehren ihr Andenken (2005) Professor Quack's research interests include refugee and migration studies; gender history; Jewish studies; and Holocaust remembrance, identity and integration in the New Europe.

This lecture is sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, in cooperation with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, and is part of a Spring 2007 Mini Lecture Series in Modern Jewish History. It is free and open to the public. Reservations appreciated but not required. Please call 215-898-6654 or jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. A light reception will follow the lecture.

Daniel Boyarin on "From Redaction Criticism to Intertextuality: Daniel 7 and the Son of Man"

In preparation for the talk, Professor Boyarin (University of California at Berkeley) recommends the following material: Daniel 7. 1 Enoch 14. 1 Enoch 37-71. Gospels of Mark and Matthew.

Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins is in its 44th year an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies, with support from the Penn Humanities Forum. The topic for the 44th year of PSCO is "Re-thinking History, Theory, and Texts: New Theoretical and Methodological Endeavors." We take our theme from Elizabeth Clark's recent book, History, Theory Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, in which she attempts to persuade historians of ancient texts, especially those of early Christianity, "that the texts they study are highly amenable to the types of literary/philosophical/theoretical critique that have excited other humanities disciplines under the rubric of post-structuralism" (p.ix). We plan to invite scholars to share current work that utilizes newtheoretical approaches in interpreting ancient Jewish and Christian texts.

Join us at 6pm for an informal dinner in the nearby Food Court, and then meet back in the Logan Hall Lounge for Professor Boyarin?fs presentation.)

Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Concert presents: "Mediterranean Dialogues," featuring the extraordinary Miriam Meghnagi, accompanied by Giovanni Seneca.

An internationally known scholar and performer of the Mediterranean Jewish ethno-musical heritage, Meghnagi has created and sings original adaptations of traditional Mediterranean music in multiple languages and dialects, including Arabic, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), Bagitto (Judeo-Livornese), Judeo-Italian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Italian, Spanish, and even Yiddish.

Price: $10 with a Penn id., $20 for the general public. Ticketing will be handled by the Annenberg Center. http://www.pennpresents.org/events/

Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Library, The Middle East Center, the Jewish Studies Program's Silvers Visiting Scholar, The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, The Music Department and the Center for Italian Studies.

For additional information, contact: Kristin K. Winch, Assistant Director of Library Development, 215-573-3610 or kwinch@pobox.upenn.edu.

Paula E. Hyman on "The Dreyfus Affair and Contemporary Anti-Semitism"

Paula E. Hymna, the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University, is the author of numerous books, including Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History and The Jews of Modern France.

Yael Perl Ruiz, great-granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus, will present the Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair a set of first issue stamps and postcards from France commemorating the centennial of the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus.

This event is organized by the Lorraine Beitler Collection Adviosry Committee. Free and open to the public (please bring photo ID). For more information, 215-898-7088 or rbml@pobox.upenn.edu

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, are pleased to announce the seventh annual Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop to be held on May 6-7 (Sunday-Monday), 2007, at CAJS.

The subject of this year's Workshop will be Genizah Texts and the Expansion of Jewish Literacy. The workshop will be led by Professor Stefan Reif of the University of Cambridge, one of the world's leading authorities on the topic of the Cairo Genizah and its importance for cultural history. The two-day program will provide an overview of its subject, and of its significance in various areas, including: biblical versions and commentaries; talmudic, halakhic and midrashic texts; liturgical evolution and variety; personal letters of mundane and intellectual significance; miscellaneous cultural expression through writing. The various topics covered in the workshop will be illustrated by reading of Genizah texts, with special attention to the problems of layout, decipherment, analysis and historical evaluation.

For more information: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst/lehmann07.htm

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the School of Arts and Sciences.

Please contact Prof. Ronit Engel, Coordinator of the Modern Hebrew Language Program, with questions at ronit@sas.upenn.edu.

Symposium in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman's Eightieth Birthday.

Please follow this link for more information: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/fishman80/

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, in cooperation with Multilingual Matters, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Penn Language Center, Department of Linguistics, and the Judaic Studies Program of Drexel University.

The Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies invite faculty, staff, and students to a reception to welcome the 2006-2007 CAJS Fellows.

('06 - '07 theme: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Life Under Caliphs and Sultans)

Lecture on "A History of the Latvian Jewry: An Insider's Account"

Prof. Krupnikov (University der Bundeswehr, Munchen), a distinguished historian with personal knowledge of the Latvian Jewish experience reaching back to the eve of WWII, will speak on the long and rich history of Jews in the region. The lecture will be an accessible combination of experience and scholarship with appeal for undergraduates, the larger community, as well as members of the faculty.

Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series.

It's ok, you don't have to come. I'll sit by myself. I'll be fine.

Shmooze with Ruth Ellenson, editor of The Modern Jewish Girls's Guide to Guilt.

Sponsored by Penn Hillel, in co-operation with the Kutchin Seminar Series in the Jewish Studies Program.

21st Annual Joseph Alexander Colloquium on "Why Arendt Matters"

In this lecture Elisabeth Young-Bruehl will present key concepts from three of Hannah Arendt's seminal works: The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), and The Life of the Mind (posthumously published in 1978). She will consider how these concepts can be useful and illuminating to us now, in 2006, which is the centenary of Arendt's birth.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl published her prize-winning biography Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World in 1982. Her Anna Freud: A Biography appeared in 1988, and since then she has published Creative Characters, Freud on Women, The Anatomy of Prejudices, Cherishment, and three essay collections. She is a psychoanalyst in Manhattan and on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Elizabeth Young-Bruehl will do a book signing at 1:00 pm in the Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street.

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies in cooperation with the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Department of History; and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Click here for Young-Bruehl flyer.

Olga Borovaya, (Stanford University, Ladino Literature), Ph.D. in cultural studies, published a number of articles in English and Russian on Ladino belles lettres. She also authored the first Russian monograph on Sephardi culture: Modernization of a Culture: Belles Lettres and Theater of Ottoman Jews at the Turn of the 20th Century (Moscow, 2005) and Literature and Theater (Moscow, 2005) Currently, she is working on the English book on Ladino literature, and press at the turn of the 20th century.

A kosher deli lunch will be served.

Sponsored by The Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, in cooperation with the Departments of Spanish and French.

Speakers include: Vicki Caron, Cornell University; Lawrence Kritzman, Dartmouth College; Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College; Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania; Patrick Weil, Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXe siecle / Universite Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne; Nicolas Weill, Le Monde.

The conference is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Maurice Samuels (maurice.samuels@yale.edu) or Kristen Stromberg Childers (stromber@sas.upenn.edu).

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, in cooperation with the Library, the departments of History and Romance Languages, and the Dean's Office.

Lecture on "Pius XII, the Second World War, and the Jews" (In commemoration of Kristallnacht, aka Night of the Broken Glass)

A great deal of controversy has centered around the role of Pius XII before and during World War II: what he did or did not do, why he did not speak out as forcefully against the horrors of the Nazi and Fascist regimes as some may have wished. In order to help us understand this complex issue we must first take a look at the personality of this man, his education, his work as a diplomat and Vatican Secretary of State as well as during his reign as pope. The speech will then present some of the issues facing him and the options offered him in making his decisions.

Stewart A. Stehlin is Professor Emeritus of History at New York University. He was American editor on the Quadripartite Commission for the publication of Akten zur deutschen auswartigen Politik, 1918-1945 in Bonn Germany in the 1960s. He has published widely on both German and Vatican history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including books on Bismarck and the Guelph Problem, 1866-1890 and Weimar and the Vatican, 1919-1933, and many articles on Vatican diplomacy, including a recent chapter on "L'Allemagne et la diplomatie de Eugenio Pacelli de 1919 a 1945" in Nations et Saint-Siege au XXe siecle.

Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Kutchin Seminar Series in the Jewish Studies Program, in cooperation with the Departments of History and German. Click here for Stewart Stehlin flyer.

Yiddish Sing-along

Everyone is welcome!
Free kosher pizza

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, in cooperation with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Hillel.