The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies will host the Midwest Jewish Studies Colloquium at McGregor Memorial Conference Center on the campus of Wayne State University. On Sunday, May 22nd, from 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Midwest scholars in the field of Judaic Studies will share their research and discuss a book on modern Hebrew women's writing.

Dr. Kristine Peleg, of Century College, will begin the conference with a Works-in-Progress panel and a presentation titled Miriam Falk Biderman: A North American Proponent of Aliyah in the Pre-State Period. Dr. Oliver Leaman, of the University of Kentucky, will then discuss Maimonides in the Contemporary World: A Survey of Recent Scholarly Work, followed by Dr. David Brenner, of Kent State University, who will analyze Fiddler in the Cattle Car: The Tragedy in Holocaust Comedy.

Dr. Kenneth Waltzer, of Michigan State University, in a session titled \"Sixty Years after the Liberation of the Camps,\" will present The Rescue of the Children in Buchenwald. The final, academics-only, session will be a discussion of And Rachel Stole the Idols: the Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing (Wayne State University Press, 2004), led by the author, Dr. Wendy I. Zierler, of Hebrew Union College-New York.

The colloquium will conclude at 7:30 p.m. with a panel discussion titled Ten Years After: The Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin at:
Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Hills.

Featured panelists include: Dr. Frederic S. Pearson, director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State; Dr. Alan Dowty, of the University of Notre Dame and University of Calgary; and Dr. Ilai Alon, of the University of Tel Aviv, University of Chicago, and Northwestern University.

This program is free and open to the public. For further information or reservations by May 19th, contact the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies (313) 577-2679 or aa2690@wayne.edu.

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