Spring 2019 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Rachel Rubinstein
Mar 13, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies, Hampshire College
Presentation
“The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature”
Fall 2018 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Josh Lambert
Nov 27, 2018, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Visiting Lecturer in American Studies; Academic Director, Yiddish Book Center
Presentation
“Rebooting Jewish Television: ‘Transparent,’ Streaming Media, and Foundation-Backed Culture”
Spring 2018 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Lila Corwin Berman
Apr 18, 2018, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationProfessor of History; Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, Temple UniversityPresentation“‘The Right and the Left Yell at Us, So We Must Be Doing Something Well’: The Depoliticization of American Jewish Politics and Philanthropy”
- AffiliationProfessor of History
Spring 2017 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Apr 19, 2017, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita of Performance Studies, New York UniversityPresentation“Theater of History: Performing the Past in American Jewish Museums”
- AffiliationDean of the College; Annan Professor in English; Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts
A Conversation with Deborah Kass
Nov 14, 2016, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationMultimedia Artist
- Esther SchorAffiliationProfessor of English, Behrman Professor in the Council of the Humanities
An X-citing Evening with Legendary X-Men Writer Chris Claremont
Nov 7, 2016, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- Paul Levitz
Frames: Jewish Culture and the Comic Book
Apr 9, 2015
Speakers
- Assaf GamzouAffiliationIsraeli Cartoon Museum
- JT WaldmanPresentation“Wanderings: Journeys in Israeli Graphic Narratives Exhibit”
- Miriam KatinAffiliationArtist
- Rutu ModanAffiliationArtist
- Miriam LibickiAffiliationArtist
- Liana FinckAffiliationArtist
Spring 2015 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Pnina Lahav
Mar 23, 2015, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Professor of Law, Boston University
Presentation
“Golda Meir: American Roots, Zionist Life”
‘Fiddler’ at 50
Nov 14, 2013
Speakers
- Sheldon HarnickAffiliationLyricist
- John DoyleAffiliationClass of 1932 Visiting Lecturer with the Rank of Professor, Program in Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts
- Joanna MerlinAffiliationActor, Teacher, Former Casting Director; Co-founder, Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
- Alisa SolomonAffiliationProfessor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia UniversityPresentation“Fiddler’s Fortunes”
- Jeremy DauberAffiliationAtran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Columbia UniversityPresentation“Scenes from an Afterlife: Sholem Aleichem’s Early Legacy”
- Jenna Weissman JoselitAffiliationCharles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History, The George Washington UniversityPresentation“The Fiddler Rests”
American Jewish Culture: ‘Fresh Vitality in Every Direction’
Apr 7, 2013, 10:00 am
Speakers
- Francine ProseAffiliationAuthorPresentation“American Jewish storytelling: King David, Grace Paley, Philip Roth and Me”
- Jonathan FreedmanAffiliationProfessor of English and American Culture; Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies, University of MichiganPresentation“Rewriting Dystopia: Jewish Alternative Histories, High and Low”
- Eric GoldsteinAffiliationJudith London Evans Director, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies; Assoc. Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Emory UniversityPresentation“‘Sociability and Bright Talk’: East Side Cafés and the Jewish Immigrant Public Sphere”
- Jonathan KarpAffiliationExecutive Director, American Jewish Historical SocietyPresentation“The Unity Principle: An American Jewish Theory of Capitalism”
- Josh LambertAffiliationAcademic Director, The Yiddish Book Center
- Tony MichelsAffiliationGeorge L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History, University of Wisconsin–MadisonPresentation“The Crisis in American Marxism and the Jewish Turn in the 1940s and 1950s”
- Alana NewhouseAffiliationEditor-in-Chief, Tablet Magazine
- Rachel RubensteinAffiliationAssociate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies; Dean of Academic Support and Advising, Hampshire CollegePresentation“Cosmopolitan Shtetl: Montreal as the Center of the New Jewish World”
- Jeffrey ShandlerAffiliationJewish Studies, Rutgers University
Workshop with Julian Levinson
Feb 23, 2013, 12:00 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies, Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan
Presentation
“In Defiance of Amnesia: Reading Postwar American Jewish Poetry”
Spring 2012 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Jenna Weissman Joselit
Mar 29, 2012, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History, The George Washington University
Presentation
“Mr. Wyrick’s Tablets: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments”
Spring 2011 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Julian Levinson
Feb 23, 2011, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
University of Michigan
Presentation
“Filming the Judeo-Christian Synthesis: Biblical Epics and Cold War Culture”
Good for the Jews? A Symposium of Scholars and Artists on Jewish Identity in American Theater and Performance
Dec 11, 2010
Speakers
- Emily MannAffiliationArtistic Director, McCarter Theater
- Donald MarguliesAffiliationPlaywright
Spring 2010 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: William Forbath
May 4, 2010, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin
Presentation
“‘Hebrew’ Immigrants and Their ‘Jewish’ Advocates: Jews, Law, and Identity Politics in the Progressive Era”
Reflections on Liberty and the American Revolution, from the Collection of Sid Lapidus
Jan 7, 2010, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- Alec Dun
- Parween Ebrahim
- Jesse George-Nichol
- Dael Norwood
- Barbara Oberg
- Caitlin Tully
- Sean Wilentz
Fall 2008 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Josh Kun
Dec 1, 2008, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Presentation
“And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: Music, Memory, and the Politics of Jewish-American History”
Spring 2008 Lapidus Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Jonathan Sarna
Feb 20, 2008, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
Presentation
“The Democratization of American Judaism”
Inaugural Lecture of the Lapidus Family Fund for American Jewish Studies
Mar 14, 2007, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Leon Wieseltier
Affiliation
Writer, Critic, Editor
Presentation
“Of What Use Is Jewish History to American Jewish History?”