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Apr 11

Holocaust Memory and the Shaping of Israeli Identity


Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

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Region
Southeast
Co-Sponsor
Temple Judea
Presentation
Holocaust Memory and the Shaping of Israeli Identity
Prof. Arieh Saposnik
Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Date
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location
Temple Judea
4311 Hood Road
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Lunch is $15 per person

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R.S.V.P to the Greater Florida Regional office at 561-705-0117 or [email protected]

Prof. Arieh Saposnik, an associate professor at BGU’s Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, is a historian of Zionism and Jewish nationalism. His current research focuses on imagery and symbolism of the sacred in the making of Jewish nationalism, and in Zionism and Israeli culture in particular. He is also studying competing notions of the link between Jews and territory in the modern world. Prof. Saposnik is the author of Becoming Hebrew: The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine, published by Oxford University Press.