Events
Evening Lectures |
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LECTURE TITLE |
DATE / TIME / LOCATION |
Sarah Griswold
Exhibition Projects Manager
Museum of Jewish Heritage
New York City |
“Woman of Letters: Irene Nemirovsky & Suite Française, an Exhibition” |
October 6, 2008
7:30 pm
Dale Hall, Room 112
433 W. Lindsey
Norman Campus |
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Meir Shalev
Celebrated Israeli Author |
Meir Shalev will lecture on his latest novel, A Pigeon and a Boy and will be followed by a book signing |
November 11, 2008
7:30 p.m
Scholars Room
OU Memorial Student Union
900 Asp Avenue
Norman Campus
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JuSt Lunch Brown-bag Lecture Series
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Fall 2008 |
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| DATE |
LECTURE TITLE |
LECTURER |
| September 3 |
“Christian Author, Jewish Book?
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda”
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Alan T. Levenson
Schusterman Professor of Jewish Religious and Intellectual History
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| October 1 |
Rosh Hashanah (No Lecture) |
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| November 5 |
“Gad Elmaleh, the Comedy of the Other” |
Dinah Assouline Stillman
Instructor of French
OU Dept. of Modern Languages |
| December 3 |
“Got Guilt? Joseph & Jesus in the
Jewish-Christian Dialogue of the Middle Ages” |
Shmuel Shepkaru
Professor of Medieval Judaic History
OU Department of History
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Time: Noon - 1:00 pm
Location: Room 109, Gittinger Hall, 760 Van Vleet (South) Oval, Norman Campus |
An Israeli Film Festival
in Meacham Auditorium |
Fall 2008 |
Sundays at 5pm |
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| DATE |
FILM |
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| October 5 |
Noodle
90 minutes |
An abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been deported from Israel becomes the responsibility of twice-widowed Miri, an El Al flight attendant.
Hebrew/English/Mandarin w/English subtitles |
| October 12 |
The Band’s Visit
87 minutes
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When an Egyptian police orchestra gets lost on their way to a performance in Israel, the band & their stoic leader wind up far from home in an obscure Israeli village.
Hebrew/Arabic/English w/English subtitles |
| October 26 |
Beaufort
132 minutes |
Based on the novel by Rom Leshem, Beaufort depicts the events that took place shortly before Israeli troops withdrew from the famed military base in 2000.
Hebrew w/English subtitles |
November 2
Nielsen Hall, Room 170
(enter via doors on building's west end ) |
Jellyfish
78 minutes |
A FILM BY Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen . . . With the sea as the main protagonist, Jellyfish tells the story of 3 very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life.
Hebrew w/English subtitles |
Start Times: 5:00pm
Location: Meacham Auditorium, OU Memorial Student Union (unless otherwise noted ) |
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Schusterman Program in Judaic and Israel Studies |
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Tel: (405) 325-6508
Fax: (405) 325-6521 |
University of Oklahoma
455 W. Lindsey, DAHT 403A, Norman, OK 73019 |
