Feb 17, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Antony Polonsky, Albert
Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis
University
Location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue;
Washington, DC
This lecture discusses the often confusing history of Jews in
Poland and Russia.
Feb 16, 2009
Speaker: Professor Ed Kaplan, Department of
Romance Studies, Brandeis University
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
Part four dicusses Israel, the Holocaust, and spiritual radicalism
in relation to how modern faith faces despair.
The Josephine F. and H. Max Ammerman Study Retreat
Feb 16, 2009
Speaker: Professor Ed Kaplan, Department of
Romance Studies, Brandeis University
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
Part three dicusses prayer, reverence, and social responsibility in
relation to Heschel's involvement in and views on civil rights,
Soviet Jewry, the Vietnam War.
The...
Feb 15, 2009
Speaker: Professor Ed Kaplan, Department of
Romance Studies, Brandeis University
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
Part one dicusses Heschel’s life and how his belief in sacred
humanism resulted in his religious response to world events.
The Josephine F. and H. Max Ammerman Study...
Feb 15, 2009
Speaker: Professor Ed Kaplan, Department of
Romance Studies, Brandeis University
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
Part two dicusses the Bible as holiness in words and how it can be
an experience of G-d for today’s seekers.
The Josephine F. and H. Max Ammerman Study Retreat