Join Us for Upcoming Public Programs
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September 18, 1:00 p.m. (Virtual)
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum
Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers
University, speaks about his new book on a pioneering effort in 1940s
New York to build a museum to memorialize the Jewish cultures of
Eastern Europe destroyed during the Holocaust.
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September 24, 7:30 p.m.
Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the
Enemy
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Princeton University, discusses his new book on why
the Palestine Liberation Organization invested in research about
Judaism and Zionism and how the knowledge it acquired informed its
relationship to Israel.
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December 3, 10, & 17; 7:00 p.m.
Online Mini-Course
The
End of the World
Jenny R. Labendz, Bildner Visiting Scholar, will compare and contrast
Jewish and Christian ideas about the end of the world, challenging
widespread assumptions.
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