Pittsburgh Platform: Mini-course on the History of Zionism by Professor Emeritus Alex Orbach

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Mini-course on the History of Zionism by Professor Emeritus Alex Orbach

Congregation Dor Hadash Adult Education Program

HISTORY OF ZIONISM

Four evening sessions discussing foundations and development of Zionist thought

Instructor: Professor Alexander Orbach
Taught at the University of Pittsburgh, and published on modern Jewish history including Zionism, Israel, the Holocaust, Soviet Jewry and Antisemitism

DATES: Tuesdays, October 11, 18, 25, and November 1, 2011

TIME: 7 – 8:30 p.m.

PLACE: 5898 Wilkins Avenue

Topics
Responses to Antisemitism: Russia after 1881
The Jewish State versus the state of the Jews
To save the Jews, to save the world
Zionism from 1917 through 1947

CONTACT CONGREGATION DOR HADASH TO REGISTER
FOR THIS FREE COURSE:
EMAIL admin@dorhadash.net or phone 412 422 5158

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