Eli Yassif, Tel Aviv University
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program

Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Multi-purpose Room A, Busch Campus Center
604 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway
Parking is available just past the Busch Campus Center on the right (lot 51) or before the Busch Campus Center on the left (lot 67). A parking permit is not required.

While the expression "the people of the book" is well-recognized and immediately conjures up the Jewish people, less well known is the manner in which the oral transmission of texts is at the heart of Jewish creativity, history, and civilization. The dichotomy between the oral and the written, and the interplay between the two, will serve as the basis for this talk, as Professor Yassif leads us on a journey from the Bible to the Talmud and into the Middle Ages.

Eli Yassif, The Zvi and Sara Berger Professor of the Study of Jewish Folk Culture, Tel Aviv University, is a visiting professor at Yale University this year. He has won many awards for his publications including the Sholom Aleichem Award in 1999 for Life Contribution to the Study of Jewish Literature and Folklore, and The National Jewish Book Award for The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Indiana University Press, 1999).

Please RSVP by March 20 to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-2033