Events of Jewish interest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March include a lecture about Golda Meir and a workshop on researching Jewish genealogy in Europe. The specifics are as follows:
• Thursday, March 8, 4 p.m., Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Ambassador John L. Hirsch is a UW-Madison graduate and a senior fellow at the International Peace Institute. He will speak on “Memory and History: Reflections on Nuremberg and Other Places,” recalling his visits to Nuremberg and his experiences as a diplomat in South Africa, Israel, and elsewhere.
• Wednesday, March 14, 7 p.m., Pyle Center. Pnina Lahav will speak on “Golda Meir: Woman and Leader.” Lahav teaches constitutional law, political and civil liberties, and comparative law. Currently, she serves as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is a Religion Fellow at the Boston University School of Theology.
• Sunday, March 18, 1 p.m., UW-Madison Memorial Library. Fran Loeb Leubke will lead a workshop on “Tracing Your Jewish Roots from German-Speaking Europe.” Leubke has an advanced degree in history and has been tracking her own ancestors for more than 35 years.
For more information about these events, contact UW-Madison’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, 608-265-4763, or see jewishstudies.wisc.edu.
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