| 2011 |
December
29, 2011: Lecture
Can you put
Felafel on a Bagel? The history of two iconic
foods
Prof.
Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
DETAILS |
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November 7, 2011:
Lecture
Sacred Trash: The
Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Peter Cole and Adina Hoffman
DETAILS |
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November 3, 2011: Literary Salon
Review
of The Hare with Amber Eyes
by
Edmund de Waal
DETAILS |
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October 23, 2011:
Lecture
Shylock's Venice:
Reflections on the History, Art, and Culture
of the World's First Ghetto
Lisa
Calevi, Art History, Univ. of Oregon
DETAILS |
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July 31, 2011:
Event marking the retirement of Rabbi Joshua
Stampfer
after 28 years as Executive Director of the
Institute for Judaic Studies
(ARTICLE
IN
JEWISH REVIEW) |
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June 14, 2011:
Lecture
How Jewish
Were the Khazars?
Prof. Shaul
Stampfer, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (DETAILS)
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April 3-17, 2011: 19th Portland
Jewish Film Festival (DETAILS)
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March 11-13, 2011: Weekend in Quest
(DETAILS)
Jews and Popular
Culture in the
Ancient World
Prof.
Loren Spielman, Portland State University |
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Feb. 7, 2011: Roscoe
C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture: (DETAILS)
The Question of
Jewish "Authenticity" in the Modern Age:
Lessons from History
Speaker: Prof. Natan Meir, Portland State
University
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| 2010-2011 |
Writers and Scholars Lecture Series:
Speakers: Shawn Levy, Annie Dawid
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| 2010 |
Weekend in Quest:
Insiders
and
Outsiders: Who Is the Other?
Biblical and
Rabbinic Views of Gentiles, Converts, Women
and Servants
Scholar in Residence: Prof.
Judith Baskin, University of Oregon
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Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Robert Klonoff, Dean, Lewis and Clark Law School |
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18th Annual
Portland Jewish Film Festival |
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Institute Conference: (PROGRAM)
Sholem Aleichem
Conference
presented by IJS, Congregation Neveh Shalom, and
Reed College.
Speakers: Aliza Shevrin, Joseph Butwin, Natan
Meir, Marat Grinberg, Frederike Heuer, and George
Lederer
Sholem Aleichem
(1859-1916) is regarded as the most popular and
beloved of Yiddish writers. He composed stories,
novels and plays that captured life in the
shtetl, the traditional Jewish village in
Eastern Europe. The writer, born Solomon
Rabinovitz, (Sholem Aleichem was a penname) grew
up in the Ukrainian town of Pereyaslavl.
Although he studied Hebrew, the sacred and
literary language of Jews, in school, he spoke
Yiddish at home. At the outbreak of World War I,
Sholem Aleichem escaped with his family to
Copenhagen and then to the United States. He
died in 1916. His funeral procession brought
150,000 mourners onto the streets of New York
City. It took another three years for the first
successful production of his work, a performance
of Tevye der
Milhiker (Tevye the Milkman), the story
later made into Fiddler on the Roof.
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| 2009 |
Weekend in Quest:
The
Lives of Our Mothers and Fathers in Eastern
Europe
Scholar in Residence: Prof. Natan Meir,
Portland State University |
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Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State
University |
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17th Annual
Portland Jewish Film Festival
|
| 2008 |
Weekend in Quest:
Gilgul:
Spiritual
Transformation and the Jewish Musical Voice
Scholar in Residence: Rabbi
Alan Berg
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Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Grave Matters:
Sephardic Funerary Art & Identity in
Colonial America
Speaker: Prof. Laura Leibman, Reed College |
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16th Annual
Portland Jewish Film Festival
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| 2007-2008 |
Writers and Scholars Lecture Series:
Speakers: Peter Cole, John Efron, Charlotte
Fonrobert
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| 2007 |
Weekend in Quest:
Islam
from a Jewish Perspective
Scholar in Residence: Prof. Steven Wasserstrom, Reed College |
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Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Rabbi Michael Cahana, Congregation Beth
Israel |
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15th Annual
Portland Jewish Film Festival |
|
Jonathan Newman Memorial Law Conference:
Codes &
Commands: Emerging Law & Religious
Traditions
in the Treatment of Animals |
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Institute Conference:
The Impact of
the Emigres from the Former Soviet Union
on the United States and Israel.
Speakers: Prof. Zvi Gitelman, Prof. William Korey
|
| 2006-2007 |
Writers and Scholars Lecture Series:
Speakers: Jerold Frakes, Janis Plotkin, Esther
Chazon, Marc Dollinger, Edward Shapiro
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| 2006 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Prof. Michael Weingrad, Portland State
University |
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14th
Portland Jewish Film Festival
|
| 2005-2006 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: Ilan Stavans, Eitan Fishbane, Yair
Hoffman, Anita Norich
|
| 2005 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Matthew Warshawsky, University of
Portland |
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13th Annual
Portland Jewish Film Festival |
|
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
Ethical Issues in Reparations to Aggrieved
Groups:
What Lessons Can We Learn from the Holocaust? |
|
Institute
Conference:
Rashi: 900th Yahrzeit.
Speakers: Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel, Prof. Martin
Lokshin
|
| 2004-2005 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: Steven Aschheim, Erich Gruen, Jonathan
Sarna, Susan Glenn
|
| 2004 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Ben Zion Kogen |
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12th Annual
Portland Jewish Film Festival
|
| 2003-2004 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: Michael Meyer, Sylvia Rouss, Shalom
Paul, Trudi Alexy
|
| 2003 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Colin Diver, President, Reed College |
|
11th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival
|
| 2002-2003 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: Yossi Klein Halevi, Sylvia Barack
Fishman, Susannah Heschel, Gall Twersky Reimer
|
| 2002 |
10th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival
|
| 2001-2002 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: Sir Martin Gilbert, Rebecca Goldstein,
Arnold Eisen, David Ariel
|
| 2001 |
9th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival |
|
Institute
Conference:
Yehuda Amichai: A Celebration of His Life,
Career and Poetry.
Speakers: David Biespiel, Chana Bloch, Tess
Gallagher, Chana Kronfeld, Gary Miranda, Nikolai
Popov |
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Guest Lecture:
What is Jewish Philosophy? Five Paths to be
Taken
Speaker: Zev Harvey |
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Guest Lecture:
Ethics and the Media
Speaker: Tom Goldman
|
| 2000-2001 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: Rabbi David Wolpe, Anne Roiphe, James
Young, Samuel Freedman
|
| 2000 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Daniel Faulk, University of Oregon |
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8th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival |
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Music and Dance:
The Prince of West End Avenue
Kerry Shales, the renowned British actor, playing
all fourteen roles
|
| 1999-2000 |
Writers and Scholars
Lecture Series:
Speakers: James Kugel, Batya Gur, A.B. Yehoshua,
Rabbi Harold Kushner
|
| 1999 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Richard Stein, University of Oregon |
|
7th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival |
|
Institute
Conference:
The World of the Yeshiva
Speakers: Prof. William Helmreich, Prof. Allan
Nadler, Rabbi Elijah Schochet, Prof. Shaul
Stampfer |
|
Guest Lecture:
Speak Softly But Carry A Big Stick
Speaker: Bryna Levy
|
| 1998 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: David Leslie, Executive Director,
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon |
|
6th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival
|
| 1997 |
5th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival
|
| 1996 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Faith Gabelnick, President, Pacific
University |
|
4th Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival |
|
Jewish Film Festival
at the Beach |
|
Guest Lecture:
On Display: Jews at World Fairs, 1876 -1940
Speaker: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
|
| 1995 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Murray Sidlin, Associate Director, Oregon
Symphony Orchestra |
|
3rd Annual Portland
Jewish Film Festival |
|
Jewish Film Festival
at the Beach |
|
Guest Lecture:
The Gulf Crisis: What is the Way Out?
Speaker: Milton Viorst
|
| 1994 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Daniel Lasker, Ben Gurion University |
|
Music and Dance:
Song Trilogy
lecture by Stacy Klein, Artistic Director of
Double Edge Theater in Boston, Massachusetts |
|
Jewish Film Festival
at the Beach
|
| 1993 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Robert Liebman, Portland State University |
|
Jewish Film Festival
at the Beach |
|
Institute
Conference:
The Nobility of Rescue: The Scandinavian
Response to the Holocaust.
Speakers: Reverend Douglas Huneke, Dr. Steven
Koblik, Honorable Arne Melchior, Prof. Pearl
Oliner, Prof. Anders MacGregor Thunnel |
|
Guest Lecture:
The Story of Chinese Jews
Speaker: Prof. Donald Leslie |
|
Guest Lecture:
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Conquering Army
of God
Speaker: Prof. Ziony Zevit |
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Guest Lecture:
Moses & Monotheism Symposium
Speakers: David Spain, Howard Rosenbaum
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| 1992 |
Theater Event:
The Immigrant: A Hamilton County Album
Mark Harelik |
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Theater Event:
The Convertible Girl
reading by Danny Simon |
|
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Malachi Hacohen, Reed College |
|
Music and Dance:
Wondrous Evening in Spain
Nadia Mahdi, Arte Flamenco Dance Company |
|
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
The Jewish Stake in the Bill of Rights |
|
Jewish Film Festival
at the Beach |
|
Institute
Conference:
1492: From Iberia to America.
Speakers: Stephen Birmingham, Prof. Jane Gerber,
Dr. Stanley M. Hordes, Prof. Mark Meyerson |
|
Guest Lecture:
Yiddishkayt: A Legacy of Language in
Translations and Poems
Speaker: Kathryn Hellerstein
|
| 1991 |
Theater Event:
The Merchant of Venice
Libby Appel |
|
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: William Brillner, University of
California, Berkeley |
|
Jewish Film Festival
at the Beach |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
Archeology and the Bible |
|
Institute
Conference:
East-European Jewry: Then and Now 1890-1990.
Speakers: Prof. Gershon Hundert, Prof. Anita
Norich, Dr. Samuel Norich |
|
Guest Lecture:
The Motherhood of God in the Bible
Speaker: Prof. Mayer Gruber |
|
Guest Lecture:
Jewish Mysticism
Speaker: Moshe Idel
|
| 1990 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Martin Jaffe, University of Washington |
|
Retreat:
Beyond Evil: Empowering Hope in the Writings of
Elie Wiesel |
|
Music and Dance:
A Sunday Afternoon in St. Petersburg:
A Concert of Jewish Music from the St.
Petersburg School |
|
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
Law and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
The Book of Job |
|
Institute
Conference:
Between Athens and Jerusalem: Reason and Faith
in Conflict.
Speakers: Prof. David Winston, Prof. Steven J.
Zipperstein,
Dr. Yitzchak Kerem |
|
Guest Lecture:
November 9, 1938/November 9, 1989:
Days of Destiny for Germany and the World
Speaker: Whitney Harris,
special prosecutor and U.S. trial counsel at the
Nuremberg Trials
|
| 1989 |
Music and Dance:
An Elijah Festival: Prophecy, Music, Art and
Literature |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
Exile and Dreams of Return |
|
Institute
Conference:
From Powerlessness to Power: Israel and Japan
1948-1988.
Speakers: Prof. David Biale, Prof. David Goodman,
Prof. Arthur Hertzberg, Prof. Robert Ozaki, Prof.
Kenneth Pyle
|
| 1988 |
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
Jewish Supreme Court Justices |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
Apocalypse, Then and Now |
|
Institute
Conference:
Islam and Judaism: 1400 Years of Shared
Values.
Speakers: Prof. William Brinner, Imam A.M.
Khattab, Prof. Azim A. Nanji, Prof. Norman
Stillman, Prof. Steven Wasserstrom |
|
Guest Lecture:
An Underwater Archeologist in the Holy Land
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Flinder
|
| 1987 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Speaker: Prof. Steven Wasserstrom, Reed College |
|
Music and Dance:
A Bloch Festival
co-sponsored with Portland Symphonic Choir |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
The Abraham-Sarah Narrative |
|
Institute
Conference:
Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue.
Speakers: Prof. Michael Fishbane, Prof. Paul
Mendes-Flohr, Prof. Maurice Friedman, Prof. Donald
Moore, Prof. Virginia Shabatay |
|
Guest Lecture:
Treasures of the Holy Land
Speaker Dr. Yael Israeli |
|
Guest Lecture:
Jewish Politics in Europe and America Up To
W.W.II
Speaker: Prof. Ezra Mendelsohn |
|
Guest Lecture:
God and the 20th Century American Writer
Alfred Kazin
|
| 1986 |
Theater Event:
The Merchant of Venice: Problems of
Interpretation for the Modern Audience
Prof. Roger Porter and Michael Griggs
|
|
Theater
Event:
La Ronde
Arthur Schnitzler's play staged in conjunction
with The Vienna of Freud and Herzl conference
|
|
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Jews
Speaker: Richard Fox, Reed College
|
|
Retreat:
Entering the World of Abraham Joshua Heschel |
|
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
Reverence for Life |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
The Book of Psalms |
|
Institute
Conference:
Vienna of Herzl and Freud: Fin de Siecle.
Speakers: Prof. Steven Aschheim, Prof. Alessandra
Comini, Prof. Rudolf Ekstein, Prof. Ottomar
Rudolf, Prof. David Schlff |
|
Guest Lecture:
Ancient Jerusalem in the Light of Recent
Archeological Discoveries
Speaker: Dr. Yigal Shiloh |
|
Film Event:
The Portland premiere of War and Love
based on Jack Eisner's memoir, The Survivor |
|
Film Event:
The Jewish Experience in American Films
a photographic exhibit and lecture by Dr. Patricia
Erens
|
| 1985 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
The Worlds of Jewish Folklore
Speaker: Eric A. Kimmel, Portland State University
|
|
Music and Dance:
The Tzabarim, An Israeli Dance Troupe |
|
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
Death and Loss in Contemporary America:
Psychological and Judaic Viewpoints |
|
Interfaith
Conference:
Birth of the Bible |
|
Institute
Conference:
The Sephardim: A Cultural Journey from Spain
to the Pacific Northwest.
Speakers: Rabbi Marc Angel, Prof. Robert I. Burns,
Rabbi Sheldon Donnell, Prof. David Romey, Prof.
Benjamin Gampel, Lauren Pomerantz, Cantor Isaac
Azose |
|
Guest Lecture:
Arab-Israeli Conflict As Seen in the Dreams of
Israeli Children,
Speaker: Prof. Yoram Bilu |
|
Guest Lecture:
A Certain People,
Speaker: Charles Silberman
|
| 1984 |
Roscoe C. Nelson Jr.
Memorial Lecture:
Teaching the Holocaust to University Students
Marshall Lee, Pacific University
|
|
Jonathan Newman
Memorial Law Conference:
The Roots of Common Law in the Bible and
Talmud |
|
Institute
Conference:
Prayer and Politics: Twin Poles of Abraham
Joshua Heschel.
Speakers: Rabbi Samuel Dresner, Prof. Susannah
Heschel, Pinchas Peli |
|
Guest Lecture:
Survival of a Culture: History and
Relationships of 'Island Cultures:' The Basques,
Hispanics, Laotians, Hmong, Mien and Russians of
Oregon and the Jews of Kaifeng, China
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