March 15 – Sirens in the Synagogue
Galit Hasan-Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Professor of Hebrew Literature (emerita) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Thursday, March 15, 2018
5:00 pm
Knight Library Browsing Room
Join us as Dr. Hasan-Rokem discusses the exegetical imagination in rabbinic literature by exploring the role of the fatal Siren as a metaphor of interpretation itself.
This event is sponsored by the Singer Family and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.