Journalist's Talk
At U-M Part Of
Israel Conference

R

oger Cohen, columnist for the
International Herald Tribune
and New York Times, will
speak at the University of Michigan at
6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6. His talk, "Israeli
Spring? The Enduring Jewish Question:'
will examine how close, 63 years after
its founding, Israel has come to con-
forming to its founding ideals.
"Israel, by giving
Jews at last a small
piece of Earth, was
supposed to create
what Ben-Gurion
called 'a self-sufficient
people, master of its
own fate: rather than
one 'hung up in mid-
Roger Cohen
air," Cohen said.
"This was to be
the resolution at last of the Jewish
Question. After the millennia of
marginalization, after the pits in the
Lithuanian forests and Auschwitz and
Dachau, it was supposed to end Jewish
precariousness, Jewish annihilation
angst. Know your history, be proud of
your history, end Jewish meekness and
humiliation, the acquiescence that took
your forebears to the ditches and the
gas: that was Israel's message?'
Lessons of strength, coupled with
that of tolerance declared in the found-
ing charter of 1948, are what Cohen
will discuss.
Cohen joined the New York Times in
1990. In 2009, he was named a columnist.
Cohen's free lecture will be held in
the Rogel Ballroom of the U-M Union.
His talk is part of a symposium on
"Israel in the Middle East: Continuity
or Change" organized by Sarai Aharoni,
U-M's Schusterman Visiting Lecturer,
and sponsored by U-M's Jean & Samuel
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and
the Center for Middle Eastern and
North African Studies.
For information, call (734) 763-9047
email JudaicStudies@umich.edu, or
visit www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic .

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