The Shaol & Louis Pozez Lectureship Series 2012-2013October, 2012 - “Environmental Victories in Israel” Michelle Levine, Outreach and Marketing Director for the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel

November, 2012 - “Are US Universities Really Anti-Israel? Research Results and Recommendations for the Future” - Samuel M. Edelman, Executive Director, Center for Academic Engagement, Washington D.C.December, 2012 - “Apocalypse 2012: The End of the World According to the Mayans, Jews and Others” J. Edward Wright, Director, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, The University of ArizonaJanuary 2013 - “The Jewish Experience in Classical Music: Shostakovich & Asia,” an afternoon symposium followed by an evening concertMarch, 2013 - “Who is Not a Jew?” - Matt Goldish, Director, The Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Ohio State University

The papers presented at the Pozez Families Fine Arts Symposium in January 2013 will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press. Jewish Themes in the Work of Dimitri Shoshtakovich and Daniel Asia, edited by Alex Tentser, will be available in 2014.

The 2013 Pozez Symposium in Fine Arts “The Jewish Experience in Classical Music:

Shostakovich & Asia”

Judaic Studies Classes for Spring 2014Archaeology & The Bible - Beth Alpert NakhaiThe History & Religion of Ancient Israel: The Biblical Period - Beth Alpert NakhaiThe History & Religion of Ancient Israel: Ezra-Nehemiah to the Roman Empire - Abigail LimmerThe History of Anti-Semitism - Thomas PriceThe History of the Jews: Modern Jewish History - Deborah KayeIsraeli Fiction & Poetry - Deborah KayeJewish Civilizations: A Gateway Course - David L. GraizbordModern Israel - Leonard Hammer

Modern HebrewElementary Modern Hebrew, 2nd SemesterAnat Maimon, Uri Maimon, Abigail LimmerIntermediate Modern Hebrew, 2nd SemesteAnat Maimon, Uri MaimonAdvanced Modern Hebrew, 2nd SemesterAnat Maimon

Beth Alpert Nahkai with students in the Special Collections Library

“The Jewish Diaspora in LaTin america” with Donna Guy, Emeritus Prof. of History

The Shaol & Louis Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series 2013-2014February 3, 2014 “Complicit” a video presentation by Robert Krakow, Executive Director of The SS St Louis Legacy Project Presented by The National Foundation for Jewish Continuity. The untold story of why the Roosevelt Administration denied safe haven to Jewish Refugees aboard the SS. St Louis.

Professor Guy recently retired from Ohio State University, where she taught courses on women’s history, history of sexuality, Latin American history, history of Jews in Latin America, Argentine history, and economic history. Professor Guy is the author of Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955 (2009) and From Private Acts to Public Identities: Teaching the History of Sexuality Since the Eighteenth Century (2000). “The Jewish Diapsora in Latin America” is being offered through the Center for Latin American Studies for spring 2014.

The University of Arizona College of Social & Behavioral Sciences1