Leeds Day Limmud
Date
6 March 2011
Time
9am - 5.30pm
Venue
Weetwood Hall
Lawnswood
North Leeds
LS16 5PS
Programme
The session details for the day are:
Session 1
10:00-11:10
Chavruta - led by Simon Myerson
Susan Cohen - Eleanor Rathbone: The MP for Refugees
Jackie Colman - Hurricane Katrina and the Jews of New Orleans
Lawrence Goldman - "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Gunef": Anglo-Jewish Lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Ed Kessler - Isaac and Ishmael: what's next?
Jason Kleiman - Is it Impudent to Challenge G-d?
Vivi Lachs - Singing in Yiddish about the stetl of London 1880-195
Denis MacShane - The Politics of the New Anti-Semitism
Ruvi Ziegler - The JFS case: questioning the permissibility of ethnic and religious schools' admission criteria
Session 2
11:25-12:35
Nathan Abrams - "Almost the Same but not Quite": The Jew in British Cinema
Nina Collins - Looking at the New Testament with Neutral Eyes
Sue Gessler - Dreams and their interpretation in Judaism and psychoanalysis
David Hakak - Children of War
Julia Kay - Dance of Prayer
Monty Losowsky - Zei Gesunt: Strictly History of Medicine
Judy Plaut - The Biggest Jewish Community?
David Prager - The World of the Yiddish Cantorial Ballad
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz - A Tour of Tehillim (Psalms)
Session 3
13:30-14:40
Jonathan Arkush - Does the British Jewish Comunity have a future?
Cecil Bloom - Shostakovich and Jews
Naftali Brawer - Angels & Demons: Real or Imaginary
Neil Jameson - Organising for a Change
Michael Krom - Is building a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea to solve the shrinking feasible?
Miriam Lorie - Bibliodrama!: Rivka moves tent
Rowena Mattan - Hillel during Second Temple Times
John Minnion - Ox on the Rooftop
Dolf Mogendorff - War Lessons: World War Two and the Holocaust in Secondary Schools - findings of an international research project
Noga Zivan - Escape: The Extraordinary Story of the ORT Leeds Boys
Session 4
14:55-16:05
Asher Brawer - I Need a Hero from Samson to Hercules: Heroes in Antiquity
Margaret Brearley - Why Hitler adored Wagner
Ben Crowne - Yom Kippur in the Bible and Modern Biblical Interpretation
Hilary Curwen - Creative Reflection
Louise Ellman MP - The Challenges of being a Jewish MP
Sarah Rees-Jones - The City of York in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and its Jewish community
Ruth Rogoff - Shoah: Is it now history?
Michael Swerdlow - From Bimah to Broadway
Joe Woolfson - The Upside Down Nature of Purim in Classical Texts
Session 5
16:20-17:30
Gilad Amit - Gush Emunim: History and Present
Layla Bloom - The Story of the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery
Eva Frojmovic - A ganze Megilla: Purim art then (and why not now?)
Clive Lawton - Who commanded us to read the Megilla?
Harris Lorie - Describing the Indescribable in Anim Zemirot
Jeremy Stowe-Lindner - JCoss: The Jewish Community Secondary School
Malcolm Taylor - Jews in Khaki
Malcolm Yaffe - Jews and Magical Entertainment
There will be a full Young Limmud programme for 5-16 year olds. There will be displays from British ORT, Sar-el and LJ150 and a shuk featuring jewellery, cards and second-hand books.
Refreshments included (fully kosher).
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Fees
| Until 6 February | After 6 February | |
| Adults | £30 | £35 |
| Under 18s or students with NUS cards | £15 | £17 |
| Crèche (up to age 4) | £15 | N/A |
| Family ticket (2 adults and up to 4 children) | £80 | £80 |
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