Mark Leuchter is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. This lecture is the final of Mark’s Myth-making in the Hebrew Bible & Ancient Judaism lecture series at Mandelbaum House.
The Mandelbaum Trust supports scholars from around the world to visit Sydney. Guest scholars typically give public lectures at Mandelbaum House and offer teaching and tutoring at the University of Sydney through the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies and other relevant departments.
Calendar of Events
September 11, 2014
Leuchter – The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
Mark Leuchter is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. This lecture investigates scribes and texts as avatars of the divine warrior. This is part of Mark’s Myth-making in the Hebrew Bible & Ancient Judaism lecture series at Mandelbaum House
September 4, 2014
Leuchter – The Lady Vanishes
Mark Leuchter is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. This lecture considers the gradual disappearance, and reappearance, of the Sacred Female in Hebrew Bible. This is part of Mark’s Myth-making in the Hebrew Bible & Ancient Judaism lecture series at Mandelbaum House.
August 27, 2014
Leuchter – The Devil Made Me Do It
Mark Leuchter is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. This lecture considers the mythological background to personal moral struggle in ancient Judaism. This is part of Mark’s Myth-making in the Hebrew Bible & Ancient Judaism lecture series at Mandelbaum House.
August 15, 2013
Michman – “Beyond God” and “Bad”
Beyond “God and “Bad”: The Nazi Era Jewish Councils
Professor Dan Michman is Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and Professor in Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. He is an eminent scholar in Holocaust Research and is visiting Sydney as Mandelbaum Scholar in Residence.
August 8, 2013
Michman – Holocaust Era Ghettos Enigma
The Holocaust Era Ghettos Enigma: What Was Their Purpose
Professor Dan Michman is Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and Professor in Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. He is an eminent scholar in Holocaust Research and is visiting Sydney as Mandelbaum Scholar in Residence.
March 11, 2012
Rabbi Dr Aryeh Solomon
Rabbi Menachem Schneerson’s Philosophy of Education: No Limits to the Education Process
Sydney-born Rabbi Dr Aryeh Solomon is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies. He is also College Rabbi of Moriah College in Sydney, a modern Orthodox Jewish day school.
October 23, 2011
Professor Jonathan Webber
To preserve or to reconstruct the fabric of Auschwitz? – a constant dilemma
Jonathan Webber, a British social anthropologist specialising in Jewish studies, is a professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
October 16, 2011
Professor Jonathan Webber
Jewish Krakow: Real and imagined
Jonathan Webber, a British social anthropologist specialising in Jewish studies, is a professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
September 25, 2011
Professor Jonathan Webber
How is the Jewish Past being remembered locally in Poland today? How are the Challenges being met?
Jonathan Webber, a British social anthropologist specialising in Jewish studies, is a professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków.