'Jews and War in the 20th Century' Is Theme for UC's 2005 Lichter Lecture Series

Each year, UC’s Department of Judaic Studies holds the Lichter Lecture Series through the generous support of the Jacob and Jennie L. Lichter Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. The Department of Judaic Studies receives the annual grant to provide the Lichter Lecture series on topics in Judaic studies that have broad, popular appeal. The theme for this year’s series is “Jews and War in the Twentieth Century.”

The first lecture, “Fantasies of Wealth and the Madness of Genocide: The Story of the Hungarian Gold Train, 1944–2004,” will be presented by Ronald W. Zweig, the Marilyn and Henry Taub Professor of Israel Studies at New York University. The evening Nov. 2 begins with a reception at 6:15 pm, followed by the lecture at 7. Both the reception and the lecture are in room 400B of the Tangeman University Center (TUC).

About the Speaker

Ronald W. Zweig has a PhD in Modern History from the University of Cambridge, England. In 1977–1978, he was the junior fellow in modern history at the Oxford University Center for Hebrew Studies, after which he joined Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 1983, he joined the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, serving as Chair 2003–2004.

Zweig has been a visiting professor at several U.S. universities as well as a visiting fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge; Yad Vashem, Jerusalem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He serves on the Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Zweig has published three books, many scholarly articles and edited three collections of essays. He has served as editor of the Journal of Israeli History, as well as the online edition of the Palestine Post (1932–1950), a retrospective newspaper digitization project. 
  
Other lectures this fall in the Lichter Lecture Series:

Nov. 9, 2005, 7 pm
Reception at 6:15 pm
Yaron Peleg, Assistant Professor of Hebrew, George Washington University
“Imagining Jewish Warriors: The Soldier in Israeli Cinema”
Muntz Theater 119, Muntz Hall, Raymond Walters College
 
Nov. 17, 2005, 7 pm
Reception at 6:15pm
Thomas Idinopulos, Professor of Comparative Religion, Chair of Jewish Studies, Miami University
“Hollywood’s Failure to Respond to WWII, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism”
417 Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati

For more information, contact Pam Smith:
(513) 556-2297

Department of Judaic Studies