“The FBI, Jews and Muslims: A History of Suspicion” a talk by Steven Weitzmann on January 27th, 2020 at 5:30pm in the Judaica Suite at Smathers Library
Professor Steven Weitzman, the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies. Prof. Steven Weitzman specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the origins of Jewish culture. Recent publications include The Origins of The Jews (Princeton, 2017); Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2005); Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Indiana University Press, 2005); The Jews: A History (Prentice Hall, 2009); and a biography of King Solomon, part of the new “Jewish Lives” series, published by Yale University Press in 2011.
- Made possible through the “Bud” Shorstein Professorship, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, and the Center for Global Islamic Studies.
- See the postcard for this event