2011
February 2011
Thursday 17 February 2011
Thu 17 Feb, 7 pm. Felix Mendelssohn’s Paths to Assimilation”, a talk by Jeff Sposato Thursday, February 17, 7:00 pm at Hillel. Jeffrey S. Sposato is associate professor of musicology at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. His most recent book, The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2006), was named a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award finalist. He is currently working on a new book entitled Leipzig After Bach: Musical Life in a German City, 1750–1850. 105 Walker Hall PO Box 118020, Gainesville, 32611-8020. Professor Gwynn Kessler, 352-378-0363. Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida - [email][events]
Thursday 3 February 2011
Thu 3 Feb, 7 pm. No Generation of Silence: American Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1945–1962" a talk by Hasia Diner, Thursday, February 3, 7:00 pm at Hillel. Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. Professor Diner is the author of numerous books in the field of American Jewish history, American immigration history and the history of American women. Her most recent book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for the academic year 2010–2011. 105 Walker Hall PO Box 118020, Gainesville, 32611-8020. Professor Gwynn Kessler, 352-378-0363. Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida - [email][events]