Jean and Harold Gossett Lecture in Memory of Holocaust Victims
Martha and Paul Feivel Feingold

The Committee on Jewish Studies sponsors the Jean and Harold Gossett Lecture, which was established in January 1997. The lecture is intended to highlight artistic expression in modern Jewish culture with a particular emphasis on issues related to the Holocaust. It is presented each year in the spring.

Upcoming Lecture

29 May 2008 Paul Jaskot Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, DePaul University, "Nazi Politicians, German Art Historians, and Antisemitic Propaganda: The Nazi Party Appropriation of Heinrich Woelfflin in the Electoral Battles of the Late Weimar Republic"

Lecture Archive

2007 "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million," Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Professor of Humanities, Bard College

2006 "Misery and Metonymy: The Art of H. G. Adler," Peter Filkins, poet, Simon's Rock College of Bard

2005 "Beyond Witness. The Visionary, Non-Soteriological Poetics of Paul Celan: The Darkness in the Poem and the Light," Pierre Joris, Professor of English, SUNY-Albany

2004 "Style and Idea in German Jewish History," Michael Steinberg, PhD 1985, Professor of History, Cornell University

2003 "'There He Saw an Old Woman Weeping': Music Drama of the Holocaust and the Transcendence of Theresienstadt's Everyday," Philip Bohlman, Professor of Music, University of Chicago

(At this lecture, Professor Bohlman was joined by Ilya Levinson in a concert performance of the closing scene of Viktor Ullman's monodrama Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (1944), the final work composed for the concentration camp stage at Theresienstadt.)

2002 "Ansky's Hybridic Work: The Dybbuk," Seth L. Wolitz, Gale Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin