SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, a new lecture series in Carlsbad.
Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kickoff the monthly series. Baron’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Oct. 18 at 7:00 pm. His lecture is titled, “The Reluctant Rescuer: from Schindler’s List to Hotel Rwanda.” Video clips from the relevant movies will be used to demonstrate the shift in the depiction of rescuers from courageous heroes to morally ambiguous characters.
Lawrence Baron has held the Nasatir Chair of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University since 1988. He has authored and edited four books, the most recent being Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema. In 2006 he delivered the keynote address at Yad Vashem’s first conference on the Holocaust in feature films.
Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. Professor Oren Meyers of Univ. of Haifa will speak in November on “Israel’s Memory Wars.” In December, Professor Sandy Lakoff, UCSD will discuss Faith and Fanaticism: Religion as an Obstacle to Peace in the Middle East.” Other speakers include professors William Propp, Ghada Osman, Glenn Levine and Rebecca Moore.
The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies is a program of the Agency for Jewish Education made possible by the Leichtag Family Foundation and is free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future talks in the series, contact the Agency for Jewish Education, (858) 268-9200 ext.102 or www.ajesd.org.
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