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Director

Hayim Lapin (Acting)

Executive Director

Paul Scham

Faculty with Research Interests in Israel Studies

Bernard D. Cooperman
Einat Gonen
Jeffrey Herf
Sheila Jelen
Nili Levi
Shibley Telhami
Eric Zakim

Affiliate Faculty in Israel Studies

Avner Cohen
Edy Kaufman

Links to Partner Programs

The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center
for Jewish Studies

The Hebrew Program (School of Languages Literatures and Cultures)

The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development

 

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Previous Years' Events

Spring 2007 Program Highlights

February

February 14
Jeffrey Halper
Coordinator, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
Where is Israel Going After Occupation, Separation, Disengagement, Realignment and Lebanese War?
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)

February 28
Chaim Gans
Tel Aviv University
Historical Rights and the Jews' Return to their Homeland
Time and place to be announced.

March

March 7
Uri Horesh
Georgetown University
Language Policies and Practices of Palestinian Arabs in Israel
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)

March 11
Performance
"La Istoria de Purim: Music and poetry of the Jews of Renaissance Italy.” by Ensemble Lucidarium
2:00 PM, Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Theater

March 12
Performance
Jewish Jazz Klezmer Fusion with an Italian Flavor.By Enrico Fink and his Friends.
7:00 PM, Gildenhorn Recital Hall

March

March 26
Film
Three Mothers: 2006. Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis. 106 Minutes.
Discussion with director Dina Zvi-Riklis will follow.
7:30 PM, Hoff Theater, University of Maryland

March 27
Avner Cohen
Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Israel and Iran:The Nuclear Issue and Prospects for Security and Regional Conflict
12.30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall (Meyerhoff Center Seminar Room)

April

April 17
Avital Feuer
PhD, York University
Clashes, Conflicts, and Collusion of Identities in the Hebrew Class
Time and place to be announced.

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Fall 2006 Program Highlights

September 13
Film
Jericho's Echo
7:00 PM, Hoff Theater, Stamp Student Union
Contact the Hoff for more information

October 12
Avinoam Patt
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Vaterland, Mame Loshn
: Jewish DP Youth, Zionist Culture, and Yiddish in Post-war Germany
3:30 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall

Coming in October and November

Israel and Diaspora in Film and Culture
Screenings and Lectures
Please check back at this site for updates!

November 8
Avi Picard
University of Maryland
Forces of Integration and Segregation in the Relationship
between Ashkenazim and Sephardim in Israel
12:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall

December 4
Nicholas de Lange
University of Cambridge
S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky) as Novelist in English:
Readings from a New Translation with Discussion
4:00 PM, 0142 Holzapfel Hall

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