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Oct 6, 2022

Prize-winning author Dara Horn to discuss her book People Love Dead Jews Oct. 12 at Lafayette College

Prof. Monika Rice will discuss with Horn why she wrote the book and the provocative nature of the topic.

Dec 22, 2019

Musical Chairs: Bob Weiner

Bob Weiner, Jones Professor of History, talks about his endowed chair, his favorite song, teaching at Lafayette, and more.

Jul 12, 2013

Medical Innovator Meir Silver ’77 Bridges Science and Faith

By Dan Edelen On the bustling walkways of New York City, Meir “Michael” Silver ’77 encountered street preachers as a high school student. In questioning…

Nov 9, 2012

Professors Chronicle French Jewish Community of Dijon in New Book

Robert Weiner, Jones Professor of History, and Richard Sharpless, professor emeritus of history, have completed An Uncertain Future: Voices of a French…

Jun 24, 2011

Professor Ilan Peleg Deals with Intractable Conflict in His New Book on Israel’s Palestinian Population

“But man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”—Job 5:7 At Lafayette, one man has made it his life’s work to understand that trouble.  Ilan…

Jun 3, 2011

Rachel Davidson ’13 Helps Organize International Conference on Nazi-Looted Art

Ever since elementary school, Rachel Davidson ’13 (Bethesda, Md.) has been interested in the Holocaust. Her maternal grandfather, Erwin Schwager, escaped…

May 4, 2011

Lafayette Remembers the Holocaust

Students, faculty, and staff took time to learn about and reflect on the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as part the College’s Yom HaShoah-Holocaust…

Jul 27, 2010

Heather Stoltz ’00 Exhibits Fiber Art in New York City Show

The inspiration for quilted wall hangings and fabric sculptures created by Heather G. Stoltz ’00 is traditional Jewish texts. An exhibit of her work…

Nov 9, 2009

Tel Aviv University Professor Will Discuss Jewish American and Israeli ‘Representative’ Autobiographies Nov. 12

Author Hana Wirth-Nesher taught for nine years in Lafayette’s English department Hana Wirth-Nesher, an author and professor at Tel Aviv University in…

Oct 16, 2009

Author and Holocaust Scholar Nechama Tec Will Discuss ‘Defiance as a Book and Film’ Oct. 21

Talk is the inaugural Howard J. Marblestone Memorial Lecture Award-winning author and Holocaust scholar Nechama Tec will discuss her book Defiance: The…

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