Annual Lectures in Memory of Professor Jonathan Frankel

Organized by Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Leonid Nevzlin Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

May 2016

Lecturer:                       Dr. David Stromberg

Topic:                             "Exile and Freedom: The Jewishness of Isaac Bashevis Singer"

 

May 2015

Lecturer:                      Dr. Anat Helman

Topic:                            "Local Manners in 1950s Israel"

 

May 2014

Lecturer:                     Dr. Aya Elyada

Topic:                          "The Holy Tongue and the Language of the Jews: Hebrew and Yiddish in Early Modern Christian Writings"

 

May 2013

Lecturer:                    Prof. Immanuel Etkes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Topic:                          "The Gaon of Vilna and his Students as Heralds of Zionism:  Transformations of a Myth"  

 

May 2012

Lecturer:                    Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Topic:                         "Jonathan Frankel's 'Other' Scholarly Legacy: Intercession, Informal Diplomacy, Transnational Organizations and What's In-Between"

 

May 2011

Lecturer:                    Dr. Dmitry Shumsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Topic:                         "Yehuda Leib Pinsker, Auto-Emancipation and 1881"

An article by Dimitry Shumsky, “Leon Pinsker and ‘Autoemancipation!’: A Reevaluation,” published in Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society n.s. 18, no. 1 (Fall 2011): 33–62. (download in pdf)

 

May 2010

Lecturer:                    Dr. Paweł Maciejko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Topic:                         "Yakov Frank and the Black Madonna of Chenstochova: cet obscure object du desir"