This Event Has Been Cancelled Join us for a special evening with writer and Distinguished Lecturer Colum McCann and Director of the Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College, Leah Garrett, as they discuss McCann’s novel, Apeirogon, the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. The National Jewish Book Awards were established by Jewish Book Council […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Klezmerica: Jewish Invention and Repackaging of the Instrumental Jam Live Performance and Lecture Klezmer music, an instrumental genre rooted in an Eastern European Jewish cultural milieu deeply stylized by connections with non-Jewish co-ethnics, has been replanted and is thriving in the rich soil of America. This lecture-performance discusses […]
Please join us for a live Zoom discussion of the new book X TROOP: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett. In this riveting history, Garrett chronicles the incredible—and largely untold—story of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive WWII special-forces unit. The author will be in conversation with Hunter College history professor and author Benjamin […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Tehran Children: How a Decade Long Search in My Father's Footsteps Became "One of the Greatest Untold Stories of the Second World War" Presented by: Mikhal Dekel It is a largely unknown fact most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination - nearly a quarter-million - survived in Uzbekistan, […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: “I Am Now at War Again” Jewish World War I Veterans and Kristallnacht Presented by: Michael Geheran This talk examines the responses of German Jewish World War I veterans to the state-sponsored violence the Nazis unleashed against Jews on 9 November 1938. Like other victims of the Pogrom, […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist’s Life Presented by: Laura S. Schor This talk will focus on the life and art of the little-known Jerusalem artist Sophie Halaby. The discussion will consider how researching Sophie Halaby helped Professor Laura Schor reframe her understanding of Jerusalem. The talk will […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Kafka's Last Trial Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka's Last Trial, in conversation with Lisa Anderson, professor and chair of the German Department at Hunter College. […]
Pamela Nadell in conversation with Leah Garrett. In the days when the City College of New York was all male and Hunter College was all female, Jewish women, mostly the daughters of immigrants from Russia and Poland, knew that a Hunter education was the springboard to a teaching career. Other Hunter Jewish subway scholars took different paths. […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series From Kitchen Judaism to Combat Kashrut: Keeping Kosher in WWII Presented by Daniel Bronstein of Hunter College. The onset of World War Two inspired hundreds of rabbis from Reform, Conservative and Centrist Orthodox backgrounds to leave civilian life for the sake of serving over a half-million American Jews then serving […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Stanley Kubrick - New York Jewish Intellectual Presented by Nathan Abrams, professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, Wales. Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was born Jewish but has never really been considered a Jewish director - until now. In this illustrated talk, Abrams will explore Kubrick's ethics and ethnicity, based […]
