SIR Shabbat/Community Dinner with Prof. Samuel Heilman
Friday, February 1, 2019 • 26 Shevat 5779
5:00 PM - 8:00 PMManhattan Country School, 150 West 85th Street (between Amsterdam & Columbus)Prof. Samuel Heilman will be Darkhei Noam's next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence. He will address the community three times during Shabbat:
1. During Kabbalat Shabbat: "What's 'New' about the Recent New History of Hasidism?"
2. During a community dinner following Kabbalat Shabbat: "Succession in Munkacz: Oedipus in Boro Park"
3. Before Musaf: "Chabad, Messianism and the Denial of Death"
Prof. Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books including The Rebbe, When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son, and most recently Who Will Lead Us? The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America. In 2007-2008, he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem. In fall 2008, he was selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and sent to the People’s Republic of China where he lectured at Nanjing, Henan, and Shanghai Universities. He has also been Scheinbrun Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, visiting professor of social anthropology at Tel Aviv University, and a Fulbright visiting professor at the Universities of New South Wales and Melbourne in Australia. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, UCLA, Rutgers University, Harvard University, the University of Maryland, Carlton College, Sydney University, Spertus College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brandeis University, among others. He has been a guest lecturer at Chonnam University in Gwangju, South Korea. He has given the Rosen Lecture at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, the Michaelson Lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara (2008) and the Stroum Lectures at the University of Washington (1993). Most recently (2012) he was guest lecturer at Monash University and Sydney University in Australia. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, most recently in Moment Magazine on the subject of Messianism. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Erving Goffman.
This Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat is sponsored by Mindy, Eric, Charlie and Maya Hecht in loving memory of Mindy's father, Dr. Charles H. Feldman, Yitzchak Tzvi ben Yaakov v'Leah, z"l.
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