June and Harold Patinkin Lecture

Sponsored by the Committee on Jewish Studies, the Patinkin is an annual public lecture related to modern Israeli studies, such as the history and establishment of Israel, Israeli government, politics, political parties, and culture.

Lecture Archive

2006 "Theodor Herzl's Stepchildren: The Jews of Europe and the Israeli Question", Matti Bunzl, PhD 1998, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007 "Deadlock in Inertia: The Stalled Peace Talks and the Israeli Domestic Crisis", Shimshon Zelniker, Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and former Special Advisor to Prime Minister Shimon Peres