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Past Speakers and Topics




David Jordan
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago and
Member of the SJCS Community
“The Jews and the Enlightenment”
“The Dreyfus Affair”
James Cracraft
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Jews in the Russian Pale”
Ben Whisenhut
Professor of History, College of DuPage
“Jews and Bolsheviks”
Richard Levy
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Preparing the Encyclopedia of Antisemitism”
John Kulczycki
Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Jews and Poles in 19th and 20th-century Europe”
Elie Rekhess
Professor, Tel Aviv University and
Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
“Arabs in Israel”
Frank Tachau
Professor of Political Science, Emeritus,
University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Jews and the Ottoman Empire”
Roberto Levi-D’Ancona, M.D. “The Jews in Italy”
Mark Pickus
Member of the SJCS Community
“Zionism, its History and its Critics”
John Abbott
Instructor, Purdue University, Valpariso
“Jewish Emancipation in Europe”
Deborah Adelman
Professor of English, College of DuPage and
Member of the SJCS Community
Led sessions on Jewish Literature
(I.B. Singer, Philip Roth, Isaac Babel, among many others)
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