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Ammiel
Alcalay is past Chair
of the Department of Classical, Mid-Eastern, & Asian Languages
and Cultures at Queens College. Scholar, critic, editor, translator,
and poet/prose writer, his scholarly and creative work has focused
primarily on Hebrew and Jewish literature of the Middle East,
in its Islamic, Levantine Arab, and Israeli contexts. Author
of After Jews and Arabs, The Cairo Notebooks, and Keys
to the Garden: New Israeli Writing, he has also edited and
translated five other works, including Sarajevo: A War Journal.
His poetry, prose writings, reviews, and translations have
appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine,
The New Republic, The Village Voice, The Jerusalem Report,
among other distinguished publications.|
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Isaac
Alteras is Professor
of History at Queens College, where he teaches courses in Modern
Jewish history, American Jewish history, Zionism, and Contemporary
Israel. A former director of the Center for Jewish Studies, he
is also lecturer-in-residence at the Herzl Institute and scholar-in-residence
at the Tarbuth Foundation of Hebrew Culture. Among his important
published works are Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations,
1953-1960, as well as scores of articles and reviews on Jewish
history and the Middle East in such publications as Midstream,
The Jewish Quarterly Review, The Journal of Contemporary History,
American Jewish Archives, among others.|
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Thomas
Bird is Professor of
European Languages in the Queens College Department of European
Languages and Literatures. In addition to teaching Russian, he
teaches a year-long introductory course in Yiddish language,
and has taught courses on Soviet Yiddish Literature, The Image
of the Jew in Russian Literature, The Jews in Tsarist Russia,
and The Jewish Communities of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. A
former director and co-director of the Jewish Studies Program
at QC, he has served as a member of the editorial board of Yidishe
sprakh, secretary and chairman of the Yiddish section of
the MLA, and vice-president of The League for Yiddish. His surveys,
reviews, articles, and translations of Yiddish literature have
appeared in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century,
Yidishe kultur, The Night of the Murdered Poets, Leksikon fun
nayer yidisher literatur, among other significant volumes.|
Ann Brener is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Queens College. Dr. Brener earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her doctorate from Cornell University. The many years she spent living in Israel has allowed her to develop a wide range of interests in Hebrew culture, ranging from medieval and modern literature to Israeli art and music. Lecture Topics: |
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