March 24, 2009

Upcoming programs brought to you by The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies

Please call 313-577-2679 or send a message to aa2690@wayne.edu for reservations to the following events:
  • Sunday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. Award-winning scholar Isaiah Gafni of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will give a lecture entitled The Uses and Misuse of Ancient History in Contemporary Israel, at the Farber Beit Midrash at the Frankel Academy for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by The Frankel Academy and The Jewish Forum
Admission: $10.00 per person, payable at the door to The Cohn-Haddow Center

Seating is limited; walk-ins cannot be accommodated until all pre-registrants are seated.

  • Thursday, April 2, 7:00 p.m. ANNUAL HOLOCAUST AND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION. Special guest speakers: Samuel Totten of the University of Arkansas, Confronting the Scourge of Genocide: From Knowledge to Action, and Roger Smith of the College of William and Mary, Why Teach about Genocide? And If So, What Do We Teach? Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan-Dearborn. Co-sponsored by The Voice-Vision Oral History Archive, the Armenian Research Center, and The Mardigian Library at UM-Dearborn; and The Armenian Studies Program (UM-Ann Arbor)
Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited. registration requested by March 27th
Call 313-593-5236 or e-mail: library-event-rsvp@umd.umich.edu
  • Tuesday, April 7, 11:00 a.m. Emerging scholar Klaus Hödl of University of Graz (Austria): The Role of Viennese Jews in Austrian Mass Culture in the Fin-de-Siècle: Toward a New Interpretation of Anti-Semitism. Romanian Room (408 Manoogian), 906 W. Warren on the Wayne State campus. Co-sponsored by Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Free and open to the public. Reservations by Thursday, April 2nd.
Sponsored by the Humanities Center:
  • Wednesday, March 25, 12:30 p.m. Wayne State Faculty members Geoff Nathan, English, and Margaret Winter, CMLL&C, The Current State of Yiddish, 2339 Faculty Administration Bldg., 656 W. Kirby on the Wayne State campus. For further information: (313) 577-5471
Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
at Wayne State University
656 W. Kirby/2311 Faculty Administration Bldg.
Detroit, MI 48202



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Sandy Loeffler
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