Lecture Series

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair presents The 2015 Taubman Lectures with Professor Elchanan Reiner From Joshua to Jesus:  Three Chapters of the Galilean Jewish Foundational Myth   7pm  Tues, April 21        The Founder: On the Myth of Joshua in the Galilee 5pm  Thurs., April 23:    Sun in Givon, Samson in Galil: Rabbinic Literature Meets Local […]

Michael Steinberg, Brown University: Inner Voices of the Mendelssohn Family An exploration of the connections and continuities from Moses to Felix Mendelssohn, and from philosophy to music, in the realms of inner and private life, community, and the wider public sphere. Followed by a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words, and a presentation on […]

Thanks to its prominence, its wealth and its place at the center of intellectual and cultural life, the Mendelssohn family provides a privileged window into the formation of domestic culture in nineteenth-century Germany. But the story of the Mendelssohns not only reflects changes in domestic culture and the understanding of privacy, the family helped inaugurate […]

The 2016 Taubman Lectures Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948” A three-part lecture series on modern Israeli poetry ·      Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm ·      Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm ·      Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, with a reception at 6:30  The Magnes Collection of Jewish […]

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies presents The 2016 Taubman Lectures   Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”   The three-part lecture series will be held on    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm   Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, […]

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies presents The 2016 Taubman Lectures   Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”   The three-part lecture series will be held on    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm   Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, […]

In 1879, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s son Sebastian published “Die Familie Mendelssohn 1729-1847” as the “chronicle of a good German Bürger Family.” It carried an epigram from Goethe’s Iphigenie as its frontispiece, on the joy of recounting the deeds of one’s fathers. This lecture will work backwards in time from this 1879 family chronicle, using letters […]

Erard Grand Piano, London, 1854 Nicholas McGegan is Music Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Pasadena Symphony and, beginning in 2014, Artist in Association with Australia’s Adelaide Symphony. Through 29 years as its music director, McGegan has established the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorale as one of the world’s […]

Patrizia Guarnieri, Professor of Cultural and Social History in the S.A.G.A.S. Department at the University of Florence, Italy, will give a talk on her book Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Palgrave Macmillan US 2016). The book focuses on how the field of psychology was affected by […]