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 his mother, LaBelle Florence Tenenbaum.

• 2011 -- Burton L. Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, Director, Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary: "Sage Tales: The Power of Rabbinic Story and what it can teach us today"
  Symposium Panelists: Federica K. Clementi (USC), Michael Gibbs Hill (USC), Paul Allen Miller (USC), Gordon B. Newby (Emory U), Burton L. Visotzky (Jewish Theological Seminary)
  Symposium Moderator: Elise Blackwell (USC)
  
  

  Past Solomon-Tenebaum Lectures

• 2010 -- Jonathan D. Sarna, Director, Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership, Brandeis University: "Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews: An Untold Story"
  Symposium Panelists: Thomas J. Brown (USC), Bobby J. Donaldson (USC), Jonathan D. Sarna (Brandeis U), Mark M. Smith (USC)
  Symposium Moderator: Stanley Dubinsky (USC)
  
  
• 2009 -- Ruth W. Messinger, President, American Jewish World Service: "Global Vision: Opening our Eyes to Injustice"
  Symposium Panelists: Edward R. Carr (USC), Rabbi Jonathan Case, Edward A. Frongillo Jr. (USC), Stephen Kresovich (USC), Ruth W. Messinger (AJWS), John H. Rashford (CofC)
  Symposium Moderator: Stanley Dubinsky (USC)
  
  
• 2008 -- Stephen Nadler, William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "The Spinoza Problem: Secular Judaism and the Question of Jewish Identity"
  Symposium Panelists: Stanley Dubinsky (USC) moderator, Saskia Coenen-Snyder (USC), Rabbi Hesh Epstein, Matthew Kisner (USC), Stephen Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Katja Vehlow (USC)
  
  
• 2007 -- Paula Hyman, Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History and Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University: "Antisemitism, Gender, and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe"
  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: "Night"
  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: "The Gifts of the Jews"
  Symposium Panelists: Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger and Dr. Sheila Elliott
  
  
• 2004 -- James Carroll, Author and Boston Globe Columnist: "Anti-Semitism: The Old and the New"
  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: "The Middle East: An Update on Changing Events"
  Symposium Participants: Moss Blachman, Jan Love, Donald Puchala, Brad Warthen, and a student representative
  moderated by Charles Bierbauer
  
  
• 2002 -- Yossi Klein Halevi, Israeli Journalist: "After the Collapse of the Left and the Right
  Toward a New Israeli Consensus on Territories and Peace"
  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: "For the Sake of Truth and Memory: David Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt—Personal Perspectives from a British Courtroom"
  
  
• 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: "My Jewish Mission: A German Woman's Search for the Truth"
  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: "Whose Fault Was the Fall of Man? The Bible's First Interpreters on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden"
  Symposium Participants: Lawrence Rhu (English), Ward Briggs (Classics), and Carl Evans (Religious Studies)
  
  
• 1997 -- Louis H. Feldman, Professor of Classics, Yeshiva University: "Admiration and Hate of the Jew in Classical Antiquity"
  Symposium Participants: Ward Briggs (Classics) and Donald Jones (Religious Studies)
  
  
• 1996 -- Saul Friedlander, French Writer and Historian: "Two Jewish Historians in Extremis:
  Ernst Kantorowicz and Marc Blochin the Face of Nazism and Collaboration"
  Symposium discussion with Bob Herzstein, Professor of History

• 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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