Past Events

Trayes Hall, Douglas Student Center , 100 George Street, New Brunswick The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program As part of Rutgers 250 commemoration, three leading scholars of American Jewish history will probe the state of Jewish life in America on key dates tied to the founding of Rutgers: 1766,

The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program, funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman Lawrence Douglas , Amherst College Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. His books include The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

Jonathan Judaken , Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities, Rhodes College May 4, 2016 Cosponsored with Center for European Studies Dr. Judaken will examine the development of the four key strands that define post-Holocaust Judeophobia in Europe: Holocaust denial, extreme Left anti-Zionism, Islamist Judeophobia, and anti-Israeli anti-racism. He will address

Sato Moughalian (Independent Scholar) April 6, 2016 Lower Dodge Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum In the early twentieth century, David Ohannessian (1884-1953) revived the sixteenth-century techniques of Ottoman painted tiles, and restored and created monumental works throughout the Middle East and in Europe. In 1916, during the Armenian Genocide, Ohannessian was

Ishay Rosen Zvi , Head of the Talmud and Late Antiquity Section,The Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel-Aviv University April 4, 2016 Cosponsored with the Department of Religion Paul, the most influential follower of Jesus, played a pivotal role in the establishment of Christianity as a world religion. The rabbis,

Susannah Heschel , Chair, Jewish Studies Program, Eli Black Professorship of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College March 28, 2016 The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program From the 1830s to the 1930s, Jewish scholars played a major role in the development of the nascent field of Islamic Studies in Europe, describing

Leah Garrett , Loti Sorgon Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture, Monash University, Australia March 9, 2016 The Abram Matlofsky Memorial Program funded by the Karma Foundation Cosponsored with the Department of American Studies Nearly all of the bestselling American war novels between 1948 and 1961 were by and

Jeffrey Rosen , President and CEO of the National Constitution Center January 28, 2016

The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture Erez Tzfadia , the Israel Institute Visiting Scholar at Rutgers December 3, 2015 Cosponsored by the Rutgers’ GAIA Centers 2015-2017 Biennial Theme: Global Urbanism. Tzfadia’s talk focuses on "mixed cities" in Israel, populated by both Jews and Arabs, such as Haifa, Lod and

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks November 16, 2015 Supported by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Books on sale at the event Tickets on sale through the Bildner Center website only; no phone orders. General public: $15; Rutgers students: Free with ID (limit one per student). Rabbi Sacks will discuss his

Aomar Boum , University of California Los Angeles Andre Levy , Ben Gurion University of the Negev October 11, 2015 Cosponsored by Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Anthropology Supported by the Sagner Family Foundation After the end of World War II, thousands of Jews began

James Young , University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 30, 2015 The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program supported by the Leon and Toby Cooperman Fund In this slide lecture, Dr. Young will trace what he calls an "arc of memorial vernacular" from World War I and the Holocaust to the Vietnam Veterans