Fall 2010 Literary reading from Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
by author Maxim D. Shrayer.
Thursday, October 14
7:00 p.m
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College
Maxim Shrayer from Boston College is a prolific scholar of Russian literature and a Nabokov specialist. He is also the author of a memoir Waiting for America, in which he chronicles his own family's departure from the Soviet Union as Jewish refuseniks when he was 20 years old. Most recently he has published a book of short stories, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam.
In Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, Maxim D. Shrayer traces various obsessions and aspirations of Soviet immigrants in America. As Shrayer worked on these stories, he kept asking himself: Why is it that in America Soviet Jews and their children have been so successful professionally (think, for instance, of the inventor of Google), and yet have not been fully integrated or acculturated as either Jews or Americans? There is humor a nd tenderness in these tales, and also heartbreak and nostalgia. There are boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture that Shrayer's characters desperately try, yet often fail, to cross. Yom Kippur in Amsterdam offers a collective portrait of Jews in America who are struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their Soviet pasts.
Please join us at this reading, co-sponsored by the Department of German & Russian and Jewish Studies.
Professor Daniel J. Lasker (Ben Gurion University)
"Judaism and Islam: An Age-Old Conflict in Historical Perspective"
Monday, November 15, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center
Colby College
And looking ahead to Spring 2011:
The Annual Berger Family Holocaust Lecture
Dr. Hasia Diner
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Colby College
All are welcome to Colby Jewish Studies Events!
Spring 2010
"Responses to modernity among European Jewish women"
Prof. Harriet Freidenreich, Temple University
Thursday, March 4,
4:00pm
Lovejoy 318
The 2010 Lipman Lecture"A Faith in Peace: Current U.S. policy issues in the Middle East"
David Bame, U.S. State Department
Thursday, March 11
7:00pm
Pugh Center
(Mr. Bame currently works in Washington, DC on Iran and other
Middle East Issues. A career Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of
State since 1988, Mr. Bame most recently served as Executive Assistant to
Ambassador Dennis Ross.)
Poet Martin Steingesser
"The Thinking Heart"
A performance of poems in two voices, with
cello, based on the life of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who died in the
Holocaust. Sunday, April 11 7:00 pm
Pugh Center
"Jewish experiences in Kennebec County"
A presentation by Colby students
Monday, April 26
7:00pm
Diamond 122
All are Welcome to Jewish Studies Events!
Fall 2009 Annual Berger Family Holocaust Lecture
Professor Joanna Michlic
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Commons Room
Pugh Center
Colby College
In partnership with the Department of French and Italian, Jewish Studies presents:
Jacqueline Birn, Holocaust Survivor
Public Presentation and Talk
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Colby College
(time and location to be announced)
Professor Eitan Fishbane
Public lecture
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Colby College
(time and location to be announced)
Spring 2009 The Annual Lipman Lecture
"Just Say Nu": Yiddish from the Jewish Shtetl to the American Heartland
Prof. Michael Wex
Thursday, March 12, 7:30 pm
Cotter Union, Page Commons Room
Getting Here from There: A Maine Jewish Journey
Prof. Abraham J. Peck and Jean M. Peck
Tuesday, March 31, 7:00 pm
Roberts Hall, Robins Room
The Annual Berger Family Holocaust Lecture
The Holocaust: Myths and Misunderstandings
Prof. Peter Hayes
Sunday, April 19, 7:00 pm
Diamond Building, Ostrove Auditorium
Food and Rabbinic Literature: An Academic Roundtable
Profs. Cynthia Baker, David Freidenreich, and Jordan Rosenblum
Thursday, April 30, 4:00 pm
Diamond Building, Room 122
Fall 2008 Monday, September 22, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Diamond 122
Professor Baruch Schwartz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"How the Five Books of Moses Were Composed: The Documentary Hypothesis and Who Needs it" Wednesday, November 10, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center
"The Women in the Synagogue: A 'Revolution' Realized?"
A group presentation and round table discussion featuring:
Rabbi Carolyn Braun (Portland), Rabbi Susan Bulba Carvutto (Augusta), and Cantor Deborah Marlowe (Waterville)
Monday, November 17, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center
Professor Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University
"Jews at the Crossroads of Islamic and Christian Spain" Look for The Berger Family Holocaust Lecture and the Lipman Lecture for Spring 2009!
Earlier Events Wednesday, October 17, 2007
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center
Professor Kenneth Stow, Emeritus at the University of Haifa
"Jewish Dogs, or The Bread, the Children, and the Dogs: A Short History of Jews as 'Contaminating Danger' in Christendom"
Thursday, March 6, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center
The Lipman Lecture
Professor Jonathan Sarna
"The Future of the American Jew: American Judaim in the 21st Century" Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:30 p.m. Museum of Art Aaron Rosen "Adolph Gottlieb and the Question of Jewish Art" Sunday, April 13, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center
The Berger Family Holocaust Lecture
Professor Doris Bergen
"The Challenges of Studying the Holocaust"
Monday, April 14, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Miller Library, Robinson Room
Memoir Reading by Hubert C. Kueter
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Lovejoy 215
Professor Maurice Samuels
"The Invention of French Jewish Literature" The Annual Berger Family Holocaust Lecture
Professor Christopher Browning, renowned Holocaust Scholar, will speak on "Remembering Survival: The Factory Slave Labor Camps of Starachowice, Poland."
April 19 2007, 7:00 pm
Ostrove Auditorium
Diamond Building
The 2007 Lipman Lecture:
Professor Debroah Lipstadt will speak on " In Every Generation They Wish to Destroy Us: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism as factors in Jewish Identity."
March 7, 2007, 7:00 pm
Pugh Center
Convivencia:
Professor Mark Cohen will speak on Jewish-Christian-Muslim retations in Spain. Presented by the Goldfarb Center and sponsored by The Jewish Studies Program and The Department Of History.
Feb 27, 2007, 7:00 pm
The Maine Jewish Film Festival
Opening Night, Saturday March 17
The Festival runs from March 17 through March 25 offering over twenty films, forums, and other events. For more information visit www.mjff.org or call 207-831-7495.
The Jewish Studies Program presents the first Annual Jewish Film Series
Featuring "Munich," "Protocols of Zion," "Fateless," "The Believer," "Paradise Now," and other films. Dates, time, and place to be announced.
Colby Family Weekend Hillel Bagel Breakfast
October 8 2006, 11:00 am: Smith, Hurd, Robbins Room. Elisa Narin van Court will speak, "Invisible in Oxford: History, Memory, and Medieval Anglo-Jewry in Modern England."
The Late Night Players
September 28 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Pugh Center.
Looking for your inner "Cool Jew"? Come for the comedy, stay for the dance-off. Professor Phillip Silver
February 8 2006, 11:00 a.m.: will perform live on MPBN's "Live at 11". The Annual Lipman Lecture
March 8 2006, 7:00 p.m.: , Pugh Center. Jerry Fowler, Staff Director Committee on Conscience Holocaust Museum, Washington DC., will give a talk on "Creating a Constituency of Conscience: the Role of Holocaust Remembrance in Combating Contemporary Genocide". The Maine Jewish Film Festival in Portland
March 18-26: . Included in this year's fine and provocative line-up are "Ushpizin" and "Protocols of Zion" ("a chilling look at the post-9/11 resurgence of anti-Semitism"). For more information see www.mjff.org or filmfest@mjff.org The Annual Berger Family Holocaust Lecture
April 23 2006, 7:00 p.m.: , Pugh Center. Professor Phillip Silver of U Maine, Orono, will speak about "Hitler's 'Model Camp': Jews, Music, and Resistance in Terezin 1941-1944". |
