BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.2//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Register now\nDate: Sunday\, October 25\, 2020\nTime: 02:00pm\n * RESCHEDULED EVENT *\n\n\nThe Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program\n\ nOnline Panel Discussion\nJerusalem is an extraordinary city where some of the western world&rsquo\;s most enduring ideas were developed. A distingu ished panel will tell the story of the ancient city\, and of its people of diverse faiths and cultures\, through forays into its most inaccessible h oldings: hidden Jewish archives\, rare manuscripts in Christian and Islami c libraries\, and the riches of its Armenian heritage. The program will al so illustrate the ways in which libraries and archives continue to play a vital role in preserving history and culture\, and will highlight contempo rary efforts to digitize and preserve endangered documents.\n\nCosponsors:  \;Rutgers&ndash\;New Brunswick Libraries\; \;Center for Middle Ea stern Studies\n\nThis event will be held virtually. \;Link to the webi nar will be emailed to those who register prior to the event date.\nRegist er now\n\nPANEL:\nPreserving the Memories of Others: Hidden Jewish Librari es\nBenjamin Balint\, a writer and translator living in Jerusalem\, is the author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction\, including Jerusalem: C ity of the Book\, coauthored with Merav Mack. He is also the author of&nbs p\;Kafka&rsquo\;s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy\, which won th e Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2020 and has been translated in to ten languages. Balint&rsquo\;s reviews and cultural journalism have bee n published widely\, including in the \;Wall Street Journal\, \;Ha aretz\, and the \;Weekly Standard\, and his translations from Hebrew h ave appeared in the \;New Yorker\, \;Poetry \;International\, and \;Crazyhorse.\nDocumenting Historic Christian and Islamic Manuscri pt Libraries in the Old City\nFather Columba Stewart\, a Benedictine monk\ , is executive director of the Hill Museum &\; Manuscript Library (HMML )\, vice president for programs in religion and culture\, and professor of theology at Saint John&rsquo\;s University in Collegeville\, Minnesota. C olumba has traveled throughout the Middle East\, Africa\, Eastern Europe\, the Caucasus\, and South Asia\, cultivating relationships with communitie s that possess historic manuscript collections from the early medieval to modern periods. Under his leadership\, HMML has digitized more than 150\,0 00 manuscripts in many of the world&rsquo\;s most dangerous and inaccessib le places\, including northern Iraq\, Syria\, and Timbuktu in Mali\, cover ing a range of religious and cultural traditions. These texts and records are available online through the virtual HMML platform (vHMML.org).\nLiter ary Treasures of Armenian Jerusalem\nBedross Der Matossian\, an associate professor of history\, is vice-chair of the Department of History and asso ciate director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University o f Nebraska&ndash\;Lincoln. He is also president of the Society for Armenia n Studies. His award-winning books include \;Shattered Dreams of Revol ution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire \;and the f orthcoming book\, \;The Massacres of Adana and Aleppo: Revolution and Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. DTEND:20201025T200000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T190018Z DTSTART:20201025T180000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:[Online Panel Discussion] Jerusalem: City of the Book UID:RFCALITEM638472492188894548 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
\nDate: Sunday\, October 25\, 2020< /p>\n
Time: 02:00pm
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\nThe Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program
Jerusa lem is an extraordinary city where some of the western world&rsquo\;s most enduring ideas were developed. A distinguished panel will tell the story of the ancient city\, and of its people of diverse faiths and cultures\, t hrough forays into its most inaccessible holdings: hidden Jewish archives\ , rare manuscripts in Christian and Islamic libraries\, and the riches of its Armenian heritage. The program will also illustrate the ways in which libraries and archives continue to play a vital role in preserving history and culture\, and will highlight contemporary efforts to digitize and pre serve endangered documents.
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\nCosponsors:&n
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ers&ndash\;New Brunswick Libraries\; \;Center for Middle East
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This event will be held virtually. \;Link to the webinar will be emailed to t hose who register prior to the event date.
\n\nPANEL:
\nBenjamin Balint\, a write r and translator living in Jerusalem\, is the author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction\, including Jerusalem: City of the Book\, co authored with Merav Mack. He is also the author of \;Kafka&rsquo\; s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy\, which won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2020 and has been translated into ten lang uages. Balint&rsquo\;s reviews and cultural journalism have been published widely\, including in the \;Wall Street Journal\, \; Haaretz\, and the \;Weekly Standard\, and his translatio ns from Hebrew have appeared in the \;New Yorker\, \; Poetry \;International\, and \;Crazyhorse.< /p>\n
Father Columba Stewart\, a Benedictine monk\, is executive director of the Hill Museum &\; Manu script Library (HMML)\, vice president for programs in religion and cultur e\, and professor of theology at Saint John&rsquo\;s University in College ville\, Minnesota. Columba has traveled throughout the Middle East\, Afric a\, Eastern Europe\, the Caucasus\, and South Asia\, cultivating relations hips with communities that possess historic manuscript collections from th e early medieval to modern periods. Under his leadership\, HMML has digiti zed more than 150\,000 manuscripts in many of the world&rsquo\;s most dang erous and inaccessible places\, including northern Iraq\, Syria\, and Timb uktu in Mali\, covering a range of religious and cultural traditions. Thes e texts and records are available online through the virtual HMML platform (vHMML.or g).
\nLiterary Treasures of Armenian Jerusalem
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strong>Bedross Der Matossian\, an associate profess
or of history\, is vice-chair of the Department of History and associate d
irector of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebra
ska&ndash\;Lincoln. He is also president of the Society for Armenian Studi
es. His award-winning books include \;Shattered Dreams of Revoluti
on: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire \;and the
forthcoming book\, \;The Massacres of Adana and Aleppo: Revolutio
n and Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire.