Purdue Jewish Studies Program announces spring lecture series

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s Jewish Studies Program has announced the lineup for the 2018 Jewish Studies Program Lecture Series.

The series includes the Klatch Jewish Arts Series presentation. This presentation will be at 8 p.m. on April 23 in Pao Hall, Room 1197. Anna Shternshis, professor of Yiddish and Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto, and Psoy Korolenko, singer songwriter, will present “Yiddish Glory: Recovering and Performing Soviet Yiddish Holocaust Music.”

The noon lecture and discussion series includes three presentations:

* Feb. 14, 12:30 p.m., Stewart Center, Room 313. Lynn Parrish, PhD student in Philosophy and Literature, will speak on “Tempio Maggiore di Roma (The Great Synagogue of Rome): A Guided Tour.”

* March 21, 12:30 p.m., Stewart Center, Room 313. Daniel Morris, professor in the Department of English, will present “Jewish Memory, Jewish Museum, Jewish Modernist: On Jewish American Poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘Annotations for The Arcades: Walter Benjamin and Contemporary Art.’”

* April 18, 12:30 p.m., Stewart Center, Room 313. Lawrence Mykytiuk, associate professor of library science, will discuss “Is the Bible a Work of Fiction? The Historical Reality of Characters in the Bible.”

The lecture series is free and open to the public. The Jewish Studies Program is housed in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Liberal Arts. 

Writer: Kelsey Schnieders Lefever, kschnied@purdue.edu

Source: Alice Wenger, Program Coordinator, wengera@purdue.edu