Schedule of Lectures for Spring 2013
February 6
Don Isaac Abravanel
February 13
Rabbi Moshe Cordovero
February 20
Nathan of Hanover
February 27
Moses Mendelsohn
March 6
Shimon Dubnow
March 13
Solomon Mikhoels
No Lectures March 20, 27, April 3
April 10
Emmanuel Ringelblum
April 17
Yevgenia Ginzburg
April 24
Golda Meir
May 1
Menachem Begin
May 8
Stephen Samuel Wise
No Lecture May 15
May 22
Albert Einstein
May 29
Betty Friedan
June 5
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Schedule of Lectures for Fall 2012 (archive)
September 5:
Hillel: Foundations of Rabbinic Culture
September 12:
Rachel, wife of Akiva: Women in Ancient Israel
(no classes September 19, 26, October 3, 10)
October 17:
Queen Salome: Romans and Jews in the First Century
October 24:
Abaye’s Wise Mother: The Birth of the Talmud
October 31:
Anan ben David: The Karaite Challenge
November 7:
Benjamin of Tudela: The Wandering Jew
November 14:
Rashi: Teacher of All Israel
November 21:
Yehudah he-Hasid: The Hasidim of Ashkenaz
November 28:
Yehudah ha-Levi The Golden Age of Sepharad
December 5:
Wuhsha the Broker: Women in the Medieval Economy
(no class December 12)
December 19:
Meir of Rothenburg: The Perils of Jewish Leadership
December 26:
Johannes Pfefferkorn: Varieties of Medieval Antisemitism
January 2:
Benvenida Abravanel: The Expulsion from Sepharad
January 9:
Baruch Spinoza: The Intellectual Challenges of Modernity
