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“The Wars of Israel: the Blame Game,” on 28 April

Professor S. Ilan Troen, the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies and director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

3:00 PM, Monday, 28 April
University of North Texas
Wooten Hall, Room 122, located one block west of Welch and Highland streets.
Free and open to the public

The 60 years of wars between the State of Israel and the Arab states and Palestinians have been conducted in the court of public opinion and in the academic world, as well as on the battlefield.  Blaming the other side for aggression has become entrenched in contending historical accounts and ideologies where a moral drama invokes the struggle of good versus evil. This talk will explore the roots of these conflicting versions of the wars and conflict in the pre-1948 era but will focus on the 1948 War of Independence, with a look at the 1967 Six-Day War and the current impasse.

Founding editor of “Israel Studies,” an international journal, Professor Troen has authored or edited numerous books in American, Jewish and Israeli history. His most recent books are “Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement,” and, with Jacob Lassner, “Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined.”

Troen’s lecture is sponsored by the UNT Jewish Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism, UNT Departments of Journalism and History, UNT Hillel, the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

For more information, please contact Nanette Behning, Jewish Studies Program administrative assistant, at (940) 369-8926; behning@unt.edu or Dr. Richard Golden, Jewish Studies Program director, at (940) 369-8933; rmg@unt.edu.

 

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Program Description

The UNT Jewish Studies Program (JSP) offers an undergraduate minor in Jewish Studies and plans a M.A. in Jewish Studies. The College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Music have offered the interdisciplinary program since 2000.

Courses are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Music.  Courses will soon be offered through the College of Education to support the new M.A. program. 

The JSP has a list of esteemed regular and adjunct faculty. Through a cooperative agreement for exchange programs with Western Galilee College in Acre, Israel, initiated in 2001, visiting Israeli professors contribute to the program.

The JSP sponsors special programs and speakers throughout the year for students as well as adults in the metroplex. In addition, the JSP collaborates closely with Hillel and assists in the development of curriculum on Jewish subjects at UNT.

The University of North Texas has more Jewish students than all other Dallas-Fort Worth area universities combined. UNT offers the only Jewish Studies Program at a public university in the metroplex.

Scholarships to support student participation in the program are currently available through the Schultz Family Scholarship, the Watt Family Endowment, the Howard H. Schultz Scholarship in Jewish Studies, and the Jay and Kathy Wolens Jewish Studies Scholarship.

Signing of formal agreement between Western Galilee College and UNT Bottom: Oded NEUMANN, WGC; David Kesterson, Provost Back: Richard Golden; David Keitges, Associate Director, UNT International Programs; Robert SKOLNICK, FORMER Assistant Executive Vice President, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; Joel Schwitzer, FORMER Director, Regional Hillel of North Texas; Gary Weinstein, Executive VICE President, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; Tom HOEMEKE, Director, International Programs, UNT.

(Caption: Signing of formal agreement between Western Galilee College and UNT. Bottom: Oded Neumann, WGC; David Kesterson, Provost; Back: Richard Golden, Director, Jewish Studies Program, UNT; David Keitges, Associate Director, UNT International Programs; Robert Skolnick, former Assistant Executive Vice President, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; Joel Schwitzer, former Director, Regional Hillel of North Texas; Gary Weinstein, Executive Vice President, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; Tom Hoemeke, Director, International Programs, UNT.)

Program Mission

  1. To educate University of North Texas students and faculty about Jewish people and cultures.

  2. To increase scholarship by graduate students and faculty on Jewish subjects.

  3. To foster ties between the University of North Texas and Jewish institutions in the Metroplex, throughout the United States, and in Israel.

  4. To promote Jewish studies in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.

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