The Solomon-Tenenbaum Visiting Lectureship in Jewish Studies is presented annually to the University of South Carolina faculty and students and the larger community. The University proudly acknowledges the benefactors, Melvin and Judith Solomon, of Charleston, and Samuel and Inez Tenenbaum, of Columbia, whose generosity has created a Jewish studies endowment which exists to support the lectureship, to enhance the library collection and, eventually, to establish a chair of Jewish studies.

Others are invited to make gifts to enlarge the Jewish studies endowment. These gifts provide academic resources to study the Jewish experience from its beginnings to the present.

The Solomon-Tenenbaum lectureship continues the Tenenbaum Visiting Lectureship in Judaic Studies which began in 1990. The Tenenbaum lectureship was given in memory of Samuel's father, Meyer Warren Tenenbaum, and in honor of his mother, LaBelle Florence Tenenbaum.

• 2007 -- Paula Hyman, Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History and Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
  Symposium Panelists: Charles Bierbauer (USC) moderator, Paula Hyman (Yale University), Philip Jenkins (Pennsylvania State University(, Prof. Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard University)
  
  
• 2006-- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner noted author & journalist
  Symposium Panelists: Scott Straus (Political Science & International Studies, UW), Ronald R. Atkinson (History), Ann Kingsolver (Anthropology), Joel H. Samuels (Law)
  
  
• 2005-- Thomas Cahill, author of the best-selling "The Hinges of History" series
  Symposium Panelists: Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger and Dr. Sheila Elliott
  
  
• 2004 -- James Carroll, Author and Boston Globe Columnist
  Symposium Participants: Bruce Lawrence, Ann Burlein, Kenneth Wald, and Joe Darby



• 2003 -- Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Foreign Affairs Columnist for the New York Times
  Symposium Participants: Moss Blachman, Jan Love, Donald Puchala, Brad Warthen, and a student representative
  moderated by Charles Bierbauer



• 2002 -- Yossi Klein Halevi, Israeli Journalist
  Panelists: Rhett Jackson (United Methodist businessman) and Omar Shaheed (Imam, Masjid Al-Salaam)



• 2001 -- joint project with the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin lecturship.
  "Neighbors and Strangers: What Does Faith Require of Us?"
  Symposium Panelists: Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Dr. Mary Boys, & Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi



• 2000 -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University, Atlanta



• 1999 -- Anna E. Rosmus, Award winning writer and subject of the Oscar-nominated film, "The Nasty Girl" about her investigations into Nazi atrocities in her hometowm in Germany.
  Symposium Panelists: Alfred Nordmann (Philosophy), Natalie Hevener Kaufman (International Studies), Stan Levine (French-USC Aiken), Samuel Tenenbaum, and Kevin Lewis (Religious Studies), moderator



• 1998 -- James L. Kugel, Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature, Harvard and Professor of Bible, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  Symposium Participants: Lawrence Rhu (English), Ward Briggs (Classics), and Carl Evans (Religious Studies)



• 1997 -- Louis H. Feldman, Professor of Classics, Yeshiva University
  Symposium Participants: Ward Briggs (Classics) and Donald Jones (Religious Studies)



• 1996 -- Saul Friedlander, French Writer and Historian
  Symposium discussion with Bob Herzstein, Professor of History


Tenenbaum Lectures


• 1995 -- Bernard Lewis, "The Judeo-Islamic Tradition"
  
  
• 1994 -- Laurence Thomas, "Fragility Through Prisms of Evil: Moral Lessons from the Holocaust and American Slavery"
  
  
• 1993 -- Susannah Heschel, "German Churches in the Third Reich"
  
  
• 1992 -- Martin A. Cohen, "Sephardic Jewry: Leven of the Modern World - A Commemoration of the Quincentenary of Their Expulsion from Spain"
  
  
• 1991 -- Michael Lerner, "Judaism as the Metaphysics of Radical Transformation"
  
  
• 1990 Irving Howe, "The Immigrant Jews and American Culture"

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