CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Scholar Lectures Jewish Studies continues at the Carlsbad Dove Library with Professor Gershon Shafir of UCSD discussing the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations, at 7 p.m., Nov. 14. series. Shafir’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on November 14 at 7 p.m.
Shafir’s lecture will be repeated in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on November 16 at 10:30 am.
This lecture will survey the major stages in the relationship between the Zionist and Palestinian national movements from the end of the First World War to the present. It will focus on the range of proposed resolutions to the conflict – one state, two states– and the changing preferences among the contending parties over time.
Gershon Shafir received his B.A.s in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology from Tel Aviv University, his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley. He is currently the Director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and the Director of the UCSD Human Rights Minor. His co-authored Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenships, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002 won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East in 2002.
Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. Professor Sandy Lakoff of UCSD will speak in December on “Report from Iraq and Israel.” In January, Rabbi Scott Meltzer of SDSU will speak about “Messianic Parallels in Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament.” Other speakers include professors 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 and 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 San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, (858) 362-1327 or www.sdcjc.org.
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