Formations of Orthodoxy: Religious Life Now and Then
A program of The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union
Date & Time:
Tuesday November 29, 2011 05:30 PM to 09:30 PM
Location:
Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley Opening Panel: 5:30-7:00
Naomi Seidman, GTU: "The Last Will and Testament of the Ninety-three Bais Yakov Girls of Krakow"
Nathaniel Deutsh, UCSC: "Writing Down Tradition: Minhag Literature, Ethnography, and the Orthodox Experience of Modernity"
David Myers, UCLA: "A Shtetl in America? The Curious Case of Kiryat Joel, New York"
Reception 7:00-7:30
Sponsored by the Religious Affairs Committee of the San Francisco Krakow Sister Cities Association
Keynote Address: 7:30pm
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland
In conversation with Shana Penn, GTU
Commentator: Dr. James Donahue, President of the GTU.
RSVP: cjs@gtu.edu or (510) 649-2482
