3rd Annual Rice University Jewish Studies Program Lecture Series: Revisiting the History of the Jews of Spain (Mondays)

Presented by Jewish Communitiy Center of Houston and Rice University at Jewish Community Center of Houston (Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center)

September 12-September 26, 2011

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The Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center of Houston and Rice University present 3rd Annual Rice University Jewish Studies Program Lecture Series: Revisiting the History of the Jews of Spain. Mondays, Sept 12, 19, 26 at 8:00 p.m.

Join us for the third annual Rice University Jewish Studies Program Lecture Series at the Jewish Community Center. This series will revisit,...

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The Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center of Houston and Rice University present 3rd Annual Rice University Jewish Studies Program Lecture Series: Revisiting the History of the Jews of Spain. Mondays, Sept 12, 19, 26 at 8:00 p.m.

Join us for the third annual Rice University Jewish Studies Program Lecture Series at the Jewish Community Center. This series will revisit, through the disciplines of History and Literature, the unique experience of the Jews of Spain in the Medieval and Early Modern Period.

Schedule of 2011 Fall Lectures:

September 12
The Ladino Speakers: Language and Identity
Lecture offered by Dr. Luisa Kluger, Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Languages

September 19
Images of Judaic Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature
Lecture offered by Dr. Carl Atlee, Senior Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Languages

September 26
Convivencia between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain
Lecture offered by Dr. Maya Soifer Irish, Assistant Professor of History

This series is made possible by the Maurice Amado Foundation.

Pictured: An illustration from the Sarajevo Haggadah, written in fourteenth-century Spain.

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Jewish Community Center of Houston (Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center)

5601 S. Braeswood
Houston, TX 77096

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Tickets:

$10 JCC Member / $15 Public (per lecture)
$25 JCC Member / $36 Public (series pass)

For more information please contact Naomi Barancik at nbarancik@jcchouston.org or 713-729-3200 ext. 3288.

Times:

Mondays, September 12, 19, 26
All Lectures at 8pm at the Jewish Community Center.

Phone: 713-729-3200

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