December 9, 2009
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Israel Mission Alumni Scholars Program-UpdateHappy Holidays!The Weinberg Foundation wishes everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. Look in your mail for a Special Gift from the Foundation. Need Your Updated Contact InformationThe Weinberg Foundation has been working to update your contact information. If you have not heard from us to confirm your mailing address, e-mail, etc., please contact Eve at 410-654-8500, ext. 249 or e-mail ejemison@hjweinberg.org. Thank you! HOLD THE DATEYou and a guest are invited to our next Israel Mission Alumni Scholars Program with guest speaker, David N. Myers, professor and author (bio below). Tuesday, April 20, 2010 We will also announce details regarding the 2011 Israel Mission Alumni Scholars Program – REUNION MISSION TO ISRAEL! This is the first time we will formally announce the date and details of this trip. We hope you will join us for this event.
David N. MyersDavid N. Myers received his A.B. from Yale College in 1982, and undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before completing his doctorate at Columbia in 1991. Myers has served as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies from 1996-2000 and 2004-2009. At UCLA, Myers teaches lectures and seminars in Jewish history. This year, Myers is on sabbatical, working as a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Myers has written extensively in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history. He has authored Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (Oxford: 1995), Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (Princeton, 2003), and Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Brandeis University Press, 2008). Myers will be working on a book (with Nomi Stolzenberg) on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Yoel, New York. He is also at work on a short history of the Jews and a book on the past and future of the Jewish nation. |
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