CARLSBAD — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture has announced the line-up of its Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies in Carlsbad and in Coronado. Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kick off the monthly series at both venues Baron’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m.. His lecture is titled, “The Wandering View: The Jewish Immigrant in World Cinema.” He will reprise that lecture at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 19 in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library.
This lecture looks at the cinematic depictions of Jewish immigrants portrayed in feature films over the last century from the Eastern European Jews who entered the US at Ellis Island, to the Zionist pioneers to Palestine, Jewish immigrants to Mexico, Holocaust refugees, and the Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews’ aliyot to Israel.
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 Gershon Shafir of UCSD will speak in November on “The History of Israeli-Palestinian Relations.” In December, Professor Sandy Lakoff, UCSD will share a “Report from Iraq and Israel.” Other speakers include professors Rabbi Scott Meltzer, Dr. Joellyn Zollman, Professor Risa Levitt Kohn and Professor Alyssa Sepinwall.
The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, Co-Sponsored by Jewish Federation of San Diego County, the Leichtag Family Foundation, and Friends of the Coronado Lecture Series. The series at both venues are free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future talks in the series, contact the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, (858) 362-1327 or www.sdcjc.org.
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