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5/23/04 (Sun) 
 "On the Wings of the 'Great Eagle': Maimonides and Medieval Jewish Culture"
 1:00PM until 5:00PM 
 In: California Room, Faculty Center

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce 

  "ON THE WINGS OF THE 'GREAT EAGLE': MAIMONIDES AND MEDIEVAL 
  JEWISH CULTURE"

  The Maurice Amado Colloquium in Sephardic Studies 
  to be held on the occasion of the 800th Anniversary of 
  Maimonides' Death

  Speakers to include:
  Moshe Idel (Hebrew University and Visiting Maurice Amado 
  Professor, UCLA)
  "Kabbalistic Commentaries on Maimonides' 'Guide of the 
  Perplexed'"

  Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University)
  "Can Women be Happy?: Gender in Maimonides' Philosophy"

  Arthur Lesley (Baltimore Hebrew University)
  "'God Is in the Details': Rhetorical Reading of Biblical 
  Mashal"

  Cosponsored By:
  The Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies

  For more information please check our website at 
  www.cjs.ucla.edu.

  The conference is free and open to the public. No advance 
  registration required. Seating is limited, however, and 
  available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
  
 -- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer at humnet.ucla.edu)
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 For more information, contact cjs at humnet.ucla.edu
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 This event is taken from the Center for Jewish Studies Calendar.
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