Neil Brenner: “The Camp in the Desert: Gentrification and Hasidic Williamsburg”
Thursday, February 4, 4:00-5:45 PM
Humanities 1, Room 545.
Please join Nathaniel Deutsch, Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Neil Brenner, Professor of Sociology at New York University, for a public dialogue on the impact of gentrification on the Hasidic enclave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Winter 2010 Living Writers Series: Rebecca Goldstein
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 5:00 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall.
Rebecca Goldstein is the author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God and six works of fiction, including The Mind-Body Problem, Mazel, and Properties of Light.
Book Review: Varieties of Anti-Semitism
Historian Victor Tcherikover used to say that there are few phenomena in history that have a history of 2,000 years. Antisemitism is one of those phenomena.