The Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series

The Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series is made possible by the Pozez Families and the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.   2012-2013 speakers  2011-2012 speakers

Co-Sponsored Lectures and Events

   Co-sponsored for 2012-2013    Co-sponsored for 2011- 2012

Adult Education Outreach

Sekhel veLev "Mind & Heart"  Sekhel veLev “Mind and Heart” was created in 2000 by Israel Rubin (z”l), Yale Palchick, Barbara Rosenblum and other members of Tucson’s Jewish community as a way to encourage life-long learning. Even after Israel’s untimely death in the fall of 2000, Sehkel veLev continues to give participants the opportunity to enjoy courses taught by some of The University of Arizona’s most outstanding professors on topics that range from archaeology, ancient and modern Jewish history, Biblical Studies, the politics of the Middle East and Israel, Jewish music and literature and even ancient Hebrew.  Thanks to contributions from our supporters, we have also been able to bring scholars in from outside The University of Arizona.
  2012 Schedule

The Sally & Ralph Duchin Campus Lecture Series

The Sally & Ralph Duchin Campus Lecture Series provides the opportunity for the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies to work in partnership with other UA departments to bring scholars, authors and performers to The University of Arizona campus to give lectures and presentations in their various fields of expertise. Topics range from Modern Klezmer music, Yiddish theater to discussions on ancient, biblical texts. These presentations are usually in the late afternoons and occur during the academic semesters.
   2012-2013 Series

The Rabbi Marcus Breger Memorial Lecture

The Rabbi Marcus Breger Memorial Lecture is an  annual lecture that honors the late Rabbi Breger, who served the Jewish community on the Island of Rhodes as Rabbi and Av Bet-Din. He was also the Professor of Talmud at the Island’s renowned Rabbinical seminary, The Collegio Rabbinico, which served Jewish communities in the Balkans, Ereẓ Israel, Egypt, and Ethiopia from 1928-1938. Despite its relatively short history, this seminary became one of the premiere rabbinical seminaries serving Sephardic communities across the region.
2012 Lawrence Schiffman  2013 Carol Meyers

The Raphael Patai Memorial Lectureship Series

The Raphael Patai Memorial Lectureship Series  is a bi-annual endowed lecture  honoring the late Rabbi Raphael Patai.   Raphael Patai, a prominent cultural  anthropologist, historian, and Jewish Studies scholar, wrote over three-dozen  books in his lifetime. The Raphael Patai Lecture is made possible by the generosity of his daughters, Jennifer Schneider and Daphne Patai.
2012 Peter Machinist

The Albert T. Bilgray Memorial Lecture

The Albert T. Bilgray Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture created in 1985 to honor Albert T. Bilgray, Rabbi Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona and is cosponsored by Temple Emanu-El. In the course of more than a quarter century, Rabbi Bilgray created and helped develop three programs at the University: Hebrew Language and Literature; Religious Studies; and Judaic Studies. This Lectureship seeks to perpetuate two primary emphases of Bilgray's career through both a popular as well as an academic presentation on Jewish life and literature.

  2012 Michael L. Morgan    2013 Rabbi Arthur Green

The Yiddish Festival

The Yiddish Festival was a series of films and lectures coordinated by visiting scholar, Professor Gil Ribak.  Professor Ribak was able to organize this series in the spring of 2012 and 2013.