Institute Conferences
Since
its
founding
in
1983,
the
Institute
for
Judaic
Studies
of
the
Pacific
Northwest
has
sponsored
a
number
of
Institute
Conferences.
These
were
held
on
Portland-area
college campuses and involved leaing scholars
from all over the world discussing a specific theme.
2010 Sholem Aleichem Conference [click HERE for program]
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.
2007
The Impact of the Emigres from
the Former Soviet Union on the United States and Israel. Speakers: Professor Zvi Gitelman,
Professor William Korey
2005
Rashi: 900th Yahrzeit.
Speakers:
Professor Ephraim
Kanarfogel, Professor Martin Lokshin
2001
Yehuda Amichai: A
Celebration of
His Life, Career and Poetry. Speakers:
David Biespiel, Chana Bloch, Tess Gallagher, Chana Kronfeld, Gary
Miranda, Nikolai Popov
1999
The World of the Yeshiva.
Speakers:
Professor William Helmreich, Professor Allan Nadler, Rabbi Elijah
Schochet, Professor Shaul Stampfer
1993
The Nobility of Rescue:
The
Scandinavian Response to the Holocaust. Speakers: Reverend Douglas Huneke,
Dr. Steven Koblik, Honorable Arne Melchior, Professor Pearl Oliner,
Professor Anders MacGregor Thunnel
1992
1492: From Iberia to
America. Speakers:
Stephen
Birmingham, Professor Jane Gerber, Dr. Stanley M. Hordes, Professor
Mark Meyerson
1991
East-European Jewry: Then
and
Now 1890-1990. Speakers:
Professor Gershon Hundert, Professor Anita Norich, Dr. Samuel
Norich
1990
Between Athens and
Jerusalem:
Reason and Faith in Conflict. Speakers:
Professor David Winston, Professor Steven J.
Zipperstein, Dr. Yitzchak Kerem
1989
From Powerlessness to
Power:
Israel and Japan 1948-1988. Speakers:
Professor David Biale, Professor David Goodman, Professor Arthur
Hertzberg, Professor Robert Ozaki, Professor Kenneth Pyle
1988
Islam and Judaism: 1400
Years of
Shared Values. Speakers:
Professor William Brinner, Imam A.M. Khattab, Professor Azim A. Nanji,
Professor Norman Stillman, Professor Steven Wasserstrom
1987
Martin Buber: A Life of
Dialogue. Speakers: Professor
Michael
Fishbane,
Professor
Paul
Mendes-Flohr,
Professor
Maurice
Friedman,
Professor
Donald
Moore,
Professor
Virginia
Shabatay
1986
Vienna of Herzl and Freud:
Fin
de Siecle. Speakers:
Professor Steven Aschheim, Professor Alessandra Comini, Professor
Rudolf Ekstein, Professor Ottomar Rudolf, Professor David Schlff
1985
The Sephardim: A Cultural
Journey from Spain to the Pacific Northwest. Speakers: Rabbi Marc Angel,
Professor Robert I. Burns, Rabbi Sheldon Donnell, Professor David
Romey, Professor Benjamin Gampel, Lauren Pomerantz, Cantor Isaac Azose
1984
Prayer and Politics: Twin
Poles of Abraham Joshua Heschel. Speakers: Rabbi Samuel Dresner,
Professor Susannah Heschel, Pinchas Peli
