Aaron-Roland Endowed Lecture
From left to right: Aaron Roland, Miriam Roland, Judith Plaskow, Charlotte Fonrobert
The Aaron Roland Endowed Lectures are supported by the Aaron-Roland Fund For Jewish Studies which was established in 1969 and is our longest running lecture series. In 2016-17, we welcomed back Judith Plaskow, 25 years after she was the Aaron Roland lecturer in 1992. Here are a few of our most recent Aaron Roland lectures:
- 2022-23: Munich: The Film, the Event, and Memory with Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Tony award-winning playwright, Tony Kushner
- 2019-20: Gender and Access to Justice in the Hebrew Bible with Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College
- 2018-19: City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement with Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University
- 2017-18: "Denial," History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory College
Past Events
Reflection from the philosopher Michael Walzer on the Holy War tradition in the Bible and later culture.
The Taube Center for Jewish Studies is proud to present the Aaron Roland Special Lecture: Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander in conversation about their creation of a new American Haggadah…
Eli Yassif, is the Zvi and Sara Berger Professor of the Study of Jewish Folk Culture, Tel Aviv University.
The Aaron Roland Lecture in Jewish Studies
Benjamin D. Sommer
Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages
The Aaron Roland Endowed Lecture
Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor at NYU School of Law and a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew University. He received his Ph.D.…
Aristotle Kallis is Professor of European Studies at Lancaster University, UK and a well known expert on interwar fascism. Dr.