The UCSD Judaic Studies Program would like to invite you to hear two lectures by Ada Rapoport-Albert, University College London.

"Female Spirituality in Hasidic Judaism"

Monday, March 28, 2011
7:00pm
Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club

"From Messianic Prophetess to Female Messiah: A Gender Revolution in Early Modern Judaism"

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
7:00pm
IR/PS, Room 3201

These events are free to the public.

Head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, Ada Rapoport-Albert has written widely on Hasidic Judaism, Jewish mysticism, gender, and medieval Jewish messianism. She is the author of Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816 and Female Bodies - Male Souls: Asceticism and Gender in the Jewish Mystical Tradition (both forthcoming)and editor of Let the Old Make Way for the New: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Eastern European Jewry (with David Assaf, 2009), Hasidism Reappraised (1996) and other volumes on Jewish history. A vibrant lecturer, Professor Rapoport-Albert teaches courses on the history and culture of Hasidism, on Jewish esoteric spirituality and Kabbalah, and on medieval and early modern Jewish history.

For more information and to RSVP please contact judaicstudies@ucsd.edu

Hosted by the UCSD Judaic Studies Program