The event, the third Silberman Symposium in Jewish Studies, will feature Robert Alter, the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, as the keynote speaker. The symposium is free and open to the public. He is the author of numerous books on the European novel, contemporary American fiction, modern Hebrew literature, and literary aspects of the Bible. The Silberman Symposium is supported by the fund for the Curt C. and Else Silberman Chair in Jewish Studies. What is intended is the creation of a forum for students of all creeds and religions and even non-believers, which would become at the same time a kind of community forum with scholars, professors, lecturers, and citizens at large as participants.
All events are free and open to the public.