October - November
YIDDISH: THE WORD AND WORLD
A symposium of four lectures
Honoring George M. Seltzer,
H. H. Paper and Anita Norich
Session
"Sholom Aleichem as Social Critic"
Sunday, Oct. 18, 8:00 p.m.
Congregation B'nai Moshe
14390 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park
Session 2
"The Historical Development of
the Yiddish Language"
Monday, Oct. 19, 4:30 p.m.
French Room, Manoogian Hall, W.S.U.
'by
H. H. Paper, Hebrew Union College
Session 3
"The Autobiographical Imagination:
The Singer Family"
Thursday, Nov. 19, 4:00 p.m.
French Room, Manoogian Hall, W.S.U.
Session 4
"The Rise of the Yiddish Novel"
Thursday, Nov. 19, 8:00 p.m.
Midrasha College of Jewish Studies
21550 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield
by
Anita Norich, University of Michigan
November 1-3
A Conference on
JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND THE MODERN AGE
featuring
Ruth Angress (California, Irvine) Isaac Barzilay (Columbia) Alexander Bloom (Wheaton)
Sander Gilman (Cornell) Todd Endelman (Michigan) Steven Katz (Cornell)
Jacob Lassner (Harvard/WSU) Fritz Rothschild (Jewish Theological Seminary)
Howard Shevin (Michigan) Guy Stern (WSU)
Session 1
"Modern Anti-Semitism
and the Modern Jew"
Sunday, November 2, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield
Session 2
"Jews and the
Modern Literary Milieu"
Monday, November 2, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
McGregor Memorial Conference Center, WSU
Session 3
"Scholarly and Religious
Responses to Modernity"
Monday, November 2, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Wayne State University
Session 4
"Summary: The Origins
of Jewish Modernity"
Tuesday, November 3, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Wayne State University
*co-sponsors will be listed separately. Admission free. Inquiries 577-3015
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