[Hum_Calendar_Events] REMINDER: Mellon Lecture - Wednesday, April 29th

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The UCLA Department of English, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, and UCLA
Hillel

 

invite you to a seminar

 

by

 

Avivah Zornberg

 

'And I am a Stranger:' Becoming Ruth

 

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

4:00 p.m.

Royce Hall, Room 306

Reception to Follow

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg is the author of Genesis: The Beginning of
Desire (for which she won the National Jewish Book Award) JPS 1995;
paperback Doubleday 1996, renamed The Beginning of Desire: Reflections
on Genesis) and The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus.
(Doubleday 2001).  Her most recent book is The Murmuring Deep:
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious, published by Schocken in March,
2009.  She holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from Cambridge
University. After teaching English literature at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, she turned to teaching Torah. For the past twenty-five
years, she has taught Torah in Jerusalem at Matan, Pardes and the
Jerusalem College for Adults. Dr. Zornberg also holds a Visiting
Lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. 

This event is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Grant for Transforming
the Humanities at UCLA and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and is
organized by Lowell Gallagher (English). 

 

Background sources for Dr. Zornberg's talk  are posted to Lowell
Gallagher's web page:
http://www.english.ucla.edu/people/facpages.asp?person_id=44

 

 

 

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