Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2015
- What exactly was the goal of the Nazi anti-Jewish enterprise? (Simon Wiesenthal Memorial Lecture)- Dan Michman, Bar-Ilan University
- From Elephantine to Jerusalem and Back - Bezalel Porten, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Between Honour and Authenticity: Zionism as Theodor Herzl's Life Project - Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
- Mission and Missionaries among the Jews in 19th Century Europe - All-day symposium with the Jewish Historical Society of England in honour of David Ruderman, scholar-in-residence, JHSE
- Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory: Law, Religion, Economics and Morality - Yuval Sinai, Yale University
- Do Jews Believe in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and his Posthumous Travels - Lucia Raspe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
- Book Launch: The Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale - Lily Kahn, UCL
- Ephemeral Metropolis? The History of Jewish Warsaw
- Jewish Women and Books in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Evelyn M. Cohen
- How Jesus celebrated Passover: Early Modern Views of the Last Supper - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University