UPCOMING LECTURES

JAN 30 | lecture
Albert & Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence
Narratives and History: telling Israel's story without polarization
Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, Emory University
7 p.m. | Arizona Jewish Historical Society, Phoenix | 122 East Culver Street, Phoenix
reserve your spot online at jewishstudies.asu.edu/eckstein or by calling 480-727-5151

Because there is so much emotion involved in telling, understanding, and connecting with Israel’s history, it is difficult at times to tell what is history and what is narrative, what is accurate and what is invented. How can Israel’s story be told without polarization and how can it be taught with equal attempts at objectivity? Looking back into 150 years of Zionist and Israeli history and using the investigative tools of the historian informs these answers.

The Albert & Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence program is made possible through an endowment established by the late Dr. Albert and Mrs. Liese Eckstein, with additional contributions from the Eckstein family and Friends of Jewish Studies. The program features annual lectures by experts—professors, authors, and others—in the field of Jewish Studies.

FEB 7 | multi-week course
Humanities and Human Origins: The Creation of Beginnings
The Evolution of Nature: Creation, Nature and Human Origins*
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Director of Jewish Studies
1-3 p.m. | Northern Trust | 2398 East Camelback Road, Phoenix
Because origins inquiries combine ideas about causation, boundaries and chronology, and link the factual with the ethical and the empirical with the theoretical, the study of origins requires an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the humanities as well as the natural sciences. First session of a five-part course, featuring different speakers: 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays: February 7, 14, 21, 28 and March 6. Full-course registration required. $175 per person. Additional information and registration.

sponsored by the Phoenix President’s Community Enrichment Program

IN THE NEWS
IsraPulp collection offers unique look into Israeli culture

By Danielle Grobmeier for The State Press | January 5, 2012 at 8:50 pm

Over the past eight years, an ASU librarian has compiled the largest collection of Israeli pulp fiction outside of Israel. The IsraPulp collection, comprised of more than 350 magazine-style publications printed on brittle paper, is housed in the special collections area of Hayden Library.

Not only does the IsraPulp collection house a variety of popular pulp fiction genres, but it offers a rare, concentrated look at Israeli pulp fiction in a series of subcultures, said Rachel Leket-Mor, an ASU librarian who specializes in religious studies, philosophy and Jewish studies. full article