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Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship

Established in 1977 by the gift of Rosalyne Spindel Bernstein, Honorary 1997, and Summer Thurman Bernstein in memory of her father, Harry Spindel, as a lasting testimony to his lifelong devotion to Jewish Learning, this fund is used to support annual lectures in Judaic studies or contemporary Jewish affairs. The fund has celebrated Jewish culture and identity through lectures, music, photography, and film.

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Jonathan Safran FoerMarch 31, 2009
An Evening with Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the international bestseller Everything Is Illuminated, which was published when he was just twenty-five, and hailed as the “debut of the decade.” It was named Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times and won numerous awards, including the National Jewish Book Award. His second novel is the national and international bestseller Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
7:30 PM Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Admission is Free. Tickets are required and available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk now with Bowdoin ID, and beginning Wednesday, March 25 for the general public, and at the door, 207-725-3375.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close        Everything Is Illuminated
2008 Robert Bernheim '86 Putting History to Work: One Holocaust Historian's Long Winter from Moscow to Maine.
February 25, 2008
(rain/snow date of Tuesday, February 26th)
Robert Bernheim '86: Putting History to Work: One Holocaust Historian's Long Winter from Moscow to Maine.
2006-2007 James Carroll James Carroll: No War is Holy: Constantine, Crusades, and the Present CrisisNo War is Holy: Constantine, Crusades, and the Present Crisis
April 16, 2007
2005-2006 Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman: MausMaus
2004-2005 Daniel Boyarin Why is Rabbi Yohanan a Woman: Platonic Love and the TalmudWhy is Rabbi Yohanan a Woman: Platonic Love and the Talmud
2003-2004 Rabbi Michael Lerner God and Global Judaism: Strategies for Spiritual Transformation and Social Healing in the Age of Bush and Ariel SharonGod and Global Judaism: Strategies for Spiritual Transformation and Social Healing in the Age of Bush and Ariel Sharon
25th Anniversary Series 2002-03
2002-2003 Sandi Simcha DuBowski Trembling Before God
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2002-2003 Almuth Herbst and Marien van Nieukerken Vocal Music on Jewish Themes
2002-2003 Arthur Giglio, Sean Fleming and Anthony Antolini Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service
2002-2003 Susannah Heschel We're Not Jews: Multiculturalism and the New Jewish Studies
2002-2003 Shimon Attie The Writing on the Wall
2002-2003 James Young After-image of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art
2002-2003 Tony Kushner Evening Conversation with Tony Kushner
2001-2002 Samuel J. Freedman Jew vs. Jew: the Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
2000-2001 David Horovitz Ariel Sharon's Israel: Heading for War or Peace?
1999-2000 Ian Lustick Israel and the Iron War: The Role of War in the Peace Process
1998-1999 Arthur Green Hasidism: The Life of Piety at Modernity's Door
1997-1998 Jehuda Reinharz 100 Years of Zionism: Statesmanship Without a State
1996-1997 Cheryl Greenberg Negotiating Many Americas: Jews, African Americans and Diverse Identities: Blacks and Jews in the Age of Identity Politics
1995-1996 Michael Walzer The Politics of Biblical Wisdom
1994-1995 Sharon Pucker Rivo Yiddish Cinema: Between Two Worlds
1993-1994 Dori Laub Testimony and Truth
1992-1993 Barney Frank The Politics of Jewish/African-American Relations
1991-1992 Roberta Apfel Bennett Simon Gas Chambers to Gas Masks: Trauma and Resiliency in Children of War
1990-1991 Susannah Heschel Jewish-Christian Feminists in Dialogue
1989-1990 Wolf Blitzer Between Washington and Jerusalem
1988-1989 Grace Paley Who's in Charge of Jewish?
1987-1988 Elizabeth Holtzman U.S. Government and Nazi War Criminals
1986-1987 Symposium: Judaism and Otherness:Symposium: Judaism and Otherness:
  Livia Bitton-Jackson The Jewish Literary Stereotype as Metaphor for Cultural Otherness
  Peter Gay In Germany at Home: German Jews In The Weimar Republic
  Vivian Gornick The Feminization of Otherness
  Geoffrey Hartman The Sweat of The Hayyot: Some Images of Otherness In Jewish Thought
1985-1986 Robert Skloot Images of Survival: The Theater of Holocaust
1984-1985 Arthur Hertzberg Spinoza: The Fount of Jewish Modernity
1983-1984 John Hollander Autobiography and the Jewish Poet
1982-1983 Elaine Brody The Jewish Connection in Nineteenth Century Music
1981-1982 Nathan Glazer American Jews, the United States, and Israel: The Delicate Triangle
1980-1981 Jacob Neusner Story as History in Ancient Judaism
1979-1980 Irving Greenberg Ethical Implications of the Holocaust
1978-1979 Irving Howe East European Jew and American Culture
1977-1978 Lucy Dawidowicz Historiography of Holocaust