Sunday, September 11, 2022 @ 2:00-3:00pm – Zoom link forthcoming
Night by Elie Wiesel
Discussion facilitated by L. Arik Greenberg, Clinical Asst. Professor in Interreligious Dialogue, Dept. of Theological Studies
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
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Sunday, October 16, 2022 @ 2:00-3:00pm – Zoom link forthcoming
Under Jerusalem : the buried history of the world's most contested city by Andrew Lawler
Facilitated by Dr. Heidi Fessler, LMU Classics, Jewish Studies
In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past.
In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem’s history, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above.
Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist.
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Come meet Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer, professor of marketing and business law at the College of Business Administration.
Rabbi Gross Schaefer specializes in a wide range of varied, and surprising, disciplines. He’s a rabbi, a CPA, a legal ethicist and a writer — The Rabbi Who Wore a Fedora is the third in the Rabbi Daniels mystery series, featuring a protagonist who’s also a rabbi and a lawyer. At LMU, where he’s been teaching since the late 1970s, he primarily teaches business law, but he also focuses on legal ethics as well.
Along with his book, Rabbi Gross Schaefer will also talk about his 40 years at LMU, and Jewish life on our campus. Book signing will be available!
