Institute for Judaic Studies of the Pacific Northwest
28th Annual Meeting
The meeting took place on Monday,
February
7, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Birnbach Hall
Congregation Neveh
Shalom, 2900 SW
Peaceful
Lane, Portland, OR
Natan Meir
Lorry I. Lokey
Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at
Portland State University
delivered
The Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture:
The
Question
of
Jewish
"Authenticity"
in
the
Modern
Age:
Lessons
from
History |
| Prof. Meir spoke about the
eclipse of traditional Jewish ways of life and the
crisis that sparked among Russian Jews searching for something
that they could call "genuinely Jewish" in the modern age. The
answers ranged from Jewish nationalism to ultra-traditionalist Orthodoxy
to cultural Yiddishism, and beyond. |
Click HERE to listen to the lecture (lecture 45
min, Q & A 20 min)
.
Click HERE
to download the
lecture file (MP3, 39 megabytes).
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