‘LECTURES’

Prof Etienne Balibar: Marx and the Jewish Question

European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London 2010

22 July 2010, 7 pm at the Wiener Library

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Prof Detlev Claussen: Jews in Football: Mediating between the Gentleman’s Sport and the Professional Game

Special Lecture

- To Mark the World Cup in South Africa -

Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 7pm Wiener Library

To mark the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Dr Daniel Wildmann and Ben Barkow have pleasure in inviting you to a special lecture organized by the Leo Baeck Institute and the Wiener Library

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European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London 2010: Jews in Politics

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FilmTalk 2009/2010: Jews, Nazis, Hollywood

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FilmTalk 2008/2009: Jews: Heroes and Stars

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A lecture series organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London and The Wiener Library

FilmTalk 2008/9 focused on the theme of Jews: Heroes and Stars.

FilmTalk examined mainstream feature films and art house films from the perspective of contemporary Jewish history. What vision of Jewish masculinity is offered by Paul Newman in Exodus? What kind of Jewishness is played out by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and other films that made her a star? And what is so special about a musical set in the borscht-belt, like Dirty Dancing?

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