11 Years - 50 Visiting Scholars

An 11th Anniversary Retrospective

Since its revitalization in 1998 the Jewish Studies Program at Kean University has organized public events each month during the academic year. Among these events were lectures and performances featuring nationally and internationally recognized scholars, critics at large, and interpreters of the arts. We are proud of this longstanding service to the University and the central New Jersey community.

For information about the wide range of lecture topics addressed over the past 11 years – such as Islamic radicalism; Middle East geopolitics; the contemporary climate of free speech and political forgiveness; Jewish-American politics, music and sports; bystanders and the politics of disengagement; and the golden age of Yiddish cinema – get in touch with Dr. Dennis B. Klein, the Jewish Studies Program director.

Jewish Studies Visiting Scholars / Kean University, 1998-2009
 57 speakers visited Kean University under the auspices of its Jewish Studies Program in 1998-2009. Following are their names in the order of appearance, with their affiliations at the time of their visits.

 

   

David Levering Lewis (2001)   Leonard Lopate (left) with Tony Kushner (2004) Hasia R. Diner (2001)

 

1998-1999
Irving Greenberg (Jewish Life Network)
Robert A. Everett (Muhlenberg College)
Michael Berenbaum (Survivors of the Shoah Visual             HistoryFoundation
Mary C. Boys (Union Theological Seminary)

Herbert Ascherman, Jr. (Photographer)
Allan Nadler (Drew University)
Sander L. Gilman (University of Chicago)
Lester Friedman (Syracuse University)
Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh)
Abraham J. Peck (American Jewish Historical Society)
1999-2000
Francine Prose (New York Library Center for Scholars
and Writers)
Peter Levine (Michigan State University)		 Aviva Kempner (Filmmaker)
Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University)
Annegret Ehmann (Wannsee Holocaust Memorial Center,
Berlin)
2000-2001
James Shapiro (Columbia University)
Judith Apter Klinghoffer (Rutgers University)		 David Levering Lewis (Rutgers University)
Hasia R. Diner (New York University)
2001-2002
Helen Blank (Children’s Defense Fund)
David Twersky (New Jersey Jewish News)		 Ronald C. Kiener (Trinity College)
Sam Roberts (The New York Times)
Lisa Gossels (Filmmaker)
2002-2003
Paul S. Boyer (University of Wisconsin)		 Maria Rosa Menocal (Yale University)
Neil Baldwin (National Book Foundation)
2003-2004
David Denby (The New Yorker)
James Shapiro (Columbia University)
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels (Commonweal Magazine)
 		 J.J. Goldberg (The Forward)
Andrew Silow-Carroll (New Jersey Jewish News)
Jonathan Tobin (Philadelphia Jewish Exponent)
Tony Kushner (Playwright)
Leonard Lopate (WNYC New York Public Radio)

2004-2005
Zvi-Jonathan Kaplan (Touro College and Yeshiva University)

 Dennis Ross (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Steve Olson (National Academy of Science)
2005-2006
Oren Jacoby (filmmaker)
Blu Greenberg (author and lecturer)
John Pawlikowski (Chicago Theological Union of the
University of Chicago)		 Mary C. Boys (Union Theological Seminary, New York)
Anthony Lewis (The New York Times)
Terry Golway (The New York Times)
2006-2007
Héctor Timerman (Argentine human rights activist and
Consul-General in New York)		 Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects, New York)
Ellis Cose (Newsweek and author)
2007-2008
Ryan Spencer Reed (photojournalist)
“Sudan: The Cost of Silence” (exhibition)		 Gov. Thomas H. Kean (Chair, National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.)
2008-2009
 Zvi Bielski ( Holocaust Survivor)
 Suzanne Vromen (author)
Mark M. Anderson (Columbia University)		 Joshua Ramo Cooper (author)
Noah Feldman (Harvard University)
Carol Gluck (Columbia Univeristy)
Shulamit Ran (musician)

 

                                      
                                                                          

  Margaret O’Brien Steinfels (2004)   Irving Greenberg (1999) Robert Proctor (2000)