10:20-12:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 201 Court Yard Building
The Limits of Narrative
Professor Harriet Murav - "The Limits of Testimony on Genocide in Dovid Bergelson's Yiddish Prose"
Professor Ellen Waldman - "The Limits of Narrative:Story-telling and 'Magical Thinking' in Restorative Justice Schemas"
Professor Ilene Durst - "Bearing False Witness: Genocide and Narrative [Un]Reliability"
Professor Deborah Hertz - "The Lessons of Viktor Klemperer's Unhappy Jewish Identity"

Deborah Hertz is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California in San Diego. She has previously taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University. She spent two years at Harvard University on post-doctorate fellowships. She is the author of JEWISH HIGH SOCIETY IN OLD REGIME BERLIN, published by Yale University Press, translated into German, and forthcoming in an English-language paperback by Syracuse University Press. Her new book, forthcoming from Yale, is entitled CONVERSION PARIS OR SUICIDE; JEWISH BERLIN IN THE ERA OF HEINE AND MARX.