The State of American Jewish Studies:  A Conversation with Jonathan Sarna

Professor Jonathan Sarna
The Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University

Moderator
Professor Jeffrey Shandler, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University

Lunch will be provided.

Reading Biblical Narrative

Professor Robert Alter
University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, March 27 at 11:30 a.m.
Scholarly Communication Center
Alexander Library, 169 College Avenue

Lunch will be provided

Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Berkeley, Alter is the author of more than twenty books, including award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He was recently named the 2013 Haskins Prize Lecturer (honoring scholarly careers of distinctive importance) by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature