Friday, March 09, 2018

Reed on forgotten Jewish History

LECTURE SERIES AT BERKELEY: Series on forgotten Jewish history coming to Magnes (The Jewish News of Northern California)
How texts can be lost, found, mistranslated, abandoned and put aside — thus changing the course of history — is a topic professor Annette Yoshiko Reed will tackle at the upcoming 2018 Taubman Lectures at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley.

The program is titled “Forgetting: The Jewish Past between Rupture and Renewal,” and the three lectures are slated to take place in a four-night period starting Monday, March 12.

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This history has been forgotten by some, but not by PaleoJudaica readers. This sounds like an excellent series and if you are in the Berkeley area, be sure to attend.

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