Institute Conferences
Since its founding in 1983, the
Institute for Judaic Studies of the Pacific
Northwest has sponsored a number of Institute
Conferences. These were held on Portland-area
college campuses and involved leaing scholars
from all over the world discussing a specific
theme.
2010
Sholem
Aleichem Conference [click HERE
for program]
presented by IJS, Congregation Neveh
Shalom, and Reed College.
Speakers:
Aliza Shevrin, Joseph Butwin, Natan
Meir, Marat Grinberg, Frederike Heuer,
and
George Lederer
Sholem
Aleichem (1859-1916) is regarded as the
most popular and beloved of Yiddish
writers. He composed stories, novels and
plays that captured life in the shtetl,
the traditional Jewish village in Eastern
Europe. The writer, born Solomon
Rabinovitz, (Sholem Aleichem was a
penname) grew up in the Ukrainian town of
Pereyaslavl. Although he studied Hebrew,
the sacred and literary language of Jews,
in school, he spoke Yiddish at home. At
the outbreak of World War I, Sholem
Aleichem escaped with his family to
Copenhagen and then to the United States.
He died in 1916. His funeral procession
brought 150,000 mourners onto the streets
of New York City. It took another three
years for the first successful production
of his work, a performance of Tevye der
Milhiker (Tevye the Milkman), the
story later made into Fiddler on
the Roof.
2007
The
Impact of the Emigres from the Former Soviet
Union on the United States and Israel.
Speakers:
Professor Zvi Gitelman, Professor William
Korey
2005 Rashi: 900th Yahrzeit. Speakers:
Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel, Professor Martin
Lokshin
2001 Yehuda Amichai: A Celebration of His
Life, Career and Poetry. Speakers:
David Biespiel, Chana Bloch, Tess Gallagher,
Chana Kronfeld, Gary Miranda, Nikolai Popov
1999 The World of the Yeshiva. Speakers:
Professor William Helmreich, Professor Allan
Nadler, Rabbi Elijah Schochet, Professor Shaul
Stampfer
1993 The Nobility of Rescue: The
Scandinavian Response to the Holocaust.
Speakers:
Reverend Douglas Huneke, Dr. Steven Koblik,
Honorable Arne Melchior, Professor Pearl
Oliner, Professor Anders MacGregor Thunnel
1992 1492: From Iberia to America.
Speakers:
Stephen Birmingham, Professor Jane Gerber, Dr.
Stanley M. Hordes, Professor Mark Meyerson
1991 East-European Jewry: Then and Now
1890-1990. Speakers: Professor Gershon
Hundert, Professor Anita Norich, Dr. Samuel
Norich
1990 Between Athens and Jerusalem: Reason
and Faith in Conflict. Speakers: Professor
David Winston, Professor Steven J.
Zipperstein, Dr. Yitzchak Kerem
1989 From Powerlessness to Power: Israel
and Japan 1948-1988. Speakers:
Professor David Biale, Professor David
Goodman, Professor Arthur Hertzberg, Professor
Robert Ozaki, Professor Kenneth Pyle
1988 Islam and Judaism: 1400 Years of
Shared Values. Speakers:
Professor William Brinner, Imam A.M. Khattab,
Professor Azim A. Nanji, Professor Norman
Stillman, Professor Steven Wasserstrom
1987 Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue.
Speakers: Professor
Michael Fishbane, Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr,
Professor Maurice Friedman, Professor Donald
Moore, Professor Virginia Shabatay
1986 Vienna of Herzl and Freud: Fin de
Siecle. Speakers: Professor Steven
Aschheim, Professor Alessandra Comini,
Professor Rudolf Ekstein, Professor Ottomar
Rudolf, Professor David Schlff
1985 The Sephardim: A Cultural Journey
from Spain to the Pacific Northwest.
Speakers:
Rabbi Marc Angel, Professor Robert I. Burns,
Rabbi Sheldon Donnell, Professor David Romey,
Professor Benjamin Gampel, Lauren Pomerantz,
Cantor Isaac Azose
1984 Prayer and Politics: Twin Poles of
Abraham Joshua Heschel. Speakers:
Rabbi Samuel Dresner, Professor Susannah
Heschel, Pinchas Peli
