Fall 2002 - Spring 2003

I. Conferences Held

April 6-9, 2002. Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference: “Jewish Culture, Western Civilization, and Beyond”

II. Adult Education Classes Offered

May-July 15, 2002. Conversational Hebrew for Travelers.

III. Reading Groups

Levinas Reading Group (Co-coordinators: David Metzger and Grant Jenkins)

IV. Lectures and Cultural Activities

November 2002. Performance of Brian Silberman’s “Manifest” at the Old Dominion University Theatre

April 6, 2002. “Growing Up Jewish in Weimar Germany: A Personal Kaleidoscope.” Guy Stern, Wayne State University, Michigan

April 8, 2002. Screening of “Life is Beautiful” with panel discussion afterwards

April 9, 2002. “Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and The Limits of Representation” Richard Glejzer, Professor of English, Albertson College.

April 11, 2002. "Braided Histories: Jews, Africans and Philosophes in 18th-Century Suriname." Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

February 27, 2003. “Israel and the Arab World in the 21st Century.” Kenneth Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies, Emory University
March 30, 2003. ``Major Jewish Film Composers From the Golden Age of Hollywood.'' Katherine Preston, Professor of Music, The College of William and Mary.

April 15, 2003. Lauren Winner, Columbian University religious studies instructor and author of Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life, reads from her memoir recounting her life before and after her conversion to Orthodox Judaism.
April 30, 2003. Faculty Forum. "American Jewry and the Struggle for Civil Rights 1854-1965." Steven Berk, Professor of history at Union College and Henry and Sally Schaffer Professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies.

For more information on any of these events, please contact Dr. David Metzger, Coordinator of Jewish Studies, at dmetzger@odu.edu, 757-683-3875