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November 2018
Memorial Service for Professor Walter Laqueur
The Laqueur Family invites all members of the Georgetown community to join together to honor and celebrate the life of Professor Walter Laqueur. The memorial service, hosted by Georgetown University's Center for Jewish Civilization, will be followed by a reception.Walter Laqueur, an emeritus university professor, died at age 97 on September 30, 2018. A Holocaust survivor and world-renowned historian, Walter was fluent in at least half a dozen languages and wrote or edited more than fifty books that were published in…
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The Hal Israel Endowed Lectureship in Jewish-Catholic Relations
The Hal Israel Endowed Lectureship in Jewish-Catholic Relations is named in memory of Hal Israel (C'92) and seeks to facilitate dialogue and strengthen ties between Jews and Catholics. It explores the many ways in which members of these two faiths continue to replace ancient prejudices with cooperation and understanding in today's world. We are excited to welcome Fr. Philipp Renczes, S.J., to deliver a talk titled, "What's New in the Jewish-Catholic Dialogue? Where Do We Stand and Where Do We…
Find out more »February 2019
Morality and the Middle East
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a lecture by Danielle Pletka. Half a million are dead in Syria. Turkey is becoming a dictatorship. Egypt is returning to dictatorship. Iran continues to destabilize the region. Saudi Arabia is becoming more erratic. Islamist extremism continues to cast a shadow. How should the United States consider its foreign policy towards the Middle East? Could morality could be a guide? Danielle Pletka is senior vice president for foreign and defense policy studies…
Find out more »Poetry at the Center: Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown
The Center for Jewish Civilization, the Doyle Engaging Difference Program, the Women's Center, and Women's and Gender Studies invites you to a conversation with Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown. Jessica Jacobs is the author of Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry, an Over the Rainbow selection by the American Library Association, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Julie Suk Awards. Her chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by Sibling Rivalry Press and…
Find out more »Jewish Nationalism: What Americans Do Not Get About Zionism
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a lecture by Dr. Jerry Z. Muller. This lecture puts Jewish nationalism in its historical and comparative context. Zionism is the pre-eminent form of modern Jewish nationalism, embodied in the State of Israel. But Americans in general (including many American Jews) have a difficult time understanding Zionism. Zionism is a form of ethnic nationalism, based on the premise that the Jewish people, like other peoples, requires its own state, and that the…
Find out more »Jewish Nationalism: What Americans Do Not Get About Zionism
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a lecture by Dr. Jerry Z. Muller. This lecture puts Jewish nationalism in its historical and comparative context. Zionism is the pre-eminent form of modern Jewish nationalism, embodied in the State of Israel. But Americans in general (including many American Jews) have a difficult time understanding Zionism. Zionism is a form of ethnic nationalism, based on the premise that the Jewish people, like other peoples, requires its own state, and that the…
Find out more »Book Discussion: Generation Stalin by Dr. Andrew Sobanet
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a conversation on Dr. Andrew Sobanet's new book Generation Stalin with Dr. Sobanet, Dr. James Collins, and Dr. Susan Rubin Suleiman. Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin’s rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin’s cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within the USSR. Based on a…
Find out more »Book Discussion: Generation Stalin by Dr. Andrew Sobanet
The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a conversation on Generation Stalin with Dr. Sobanet, Dr. James Collins, and Dr. Susan Rubin Suleiman.Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin’s rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin’s cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within the USSR. Based on a wide array of…
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