On April 27-29, 2007, Dr. Norman Finkelstein gave three presentations at Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati as the Temple’s Scholar-in-Residence. The theme of the weekend was “The Jewish Literary Imagination.” On April 27th he spoke on “Remembering and Forgetting in Jewish-American Fiction” and on April 29th his subject was “The Sacred, the Secular, and the Book: The Problem of the Jewish Literary Imagination.” (His third presentation, on April 28th, was a group discussion with the congregants of midrash in Jewish-American poetry.) The April 27th and on April 29th lecture are made available here.
Dr. Finkelstein gives his thanks to Rabbi Sissy Coren, who graciously hosted his visit, to Nancy Klein, who arranged for his invitation, and to Dos Madres Press, for posting the lectures at their website.
