The gift also endows a forum on women in Judaism. We are particularly honored that this will be the occasion to bring to the Barnard campus one of the world's great teachers, Elie Wiesel.
Tickets are free of charge with a current CUID and are limited to two per person.
Wiesel is the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University. His lecture series at Barnard will be integrated into the College's course offerings in Judaic studies. The professorship will be held by the senior scholar in Jewish studies at Barnard, Alan Segal, in the future. Acclaimed as a writer and scholar, he has published more than 35 works of fiction, including Night, A Beggar in Jerusalem, Souls on Fire, Zalman or the Madness of God, The Testament, The Fifth Son and All Rivers Run to the Sea. Ingeborg Rennert is actively involved in a variety of educational and humanitarian endeavors in the United States and in Israel.