TABLE OF CONTENTS From the Director of the Bennett Center.......................... 1 Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Highlights and Events ................... 2 From the Program Manager ....... 2 Course Offerings – Fall 2015....... 4 Focus on Judaic Studies Faculty ................................ 5 Student Spotlight............................ 5 Looking Ahead................................. 6 Lunch and Learn ............................ 6 Faculty & Staff Workshops ......... 6 A Year in the Making ..................... 7 Honor Roll July 2014 - June 2015.................... 8 Judaic Studies Faculty & Friends ............................ 8 www.fairfield.edu/judaicstudies From the Director of the Bennett Center T his was a memorable year for the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies. We sponsored or co-sponsored nine outstanding lectures, celebrated the Daniel Pearl World Music Days with a concert by klezmer rock band, Golem, and held our annual Holocaust Remembrance Service with Campus Ministry. We facilitated faculty and staff lunch discussions with guest speakers, co-sponsored with Campus Ministry five Shabbat services and dinners, collaboratively worked on a number of interfaith worship services, and invited members of the campus community to join us for lunch in the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot. Many of these and other events are described in greater detail in this newsletter. We have a great deal to look forward to in 2015-2016. Our fall events are listed in this newsletter and spring events are almost in place. For a fuller description of fall events, go to our website at www.fairfield.edu/ bennett. Among our spring events will be the inaugural Diane Feigenson Lecture in Jewish Literature, on Wednesday evening, March 30, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Made possible through a generous endowment by Diane’s sons, Andrew and Rob, with additional contributions from family members, friends, University faculty and former students, Professor Feigenson taught in the University’s English Department for 20 years and the Judaic Studies Program since its inception in 1994. Given Diane’s interests in Yiddish and American Jewish literature, it is especially appropriate that our inaugural lecturer will be world-renowned, American-born Yiddishist, Dovid Katz, who is coming to Fairfield from Vilnius, Lithuania. His lecture is entitled “Exotic Exploits and Contentious Chapters in Modern Yiddish Literature.” We are continuing to seek donations for the Feigenson endowment, to build on what Rob and Andrew Feigenson already have created. Donations are also needed to help support our other programs – no monetary contribution is too small or too large! There are, of course, additional ways in which you can support the Bennett Center. For those living in the area, come to our lectures and other special events, all of which are open to the public and most of which are free of charge. Tell others about us. And send us feedback ([email protected]or [email protected]) about the programs you’ve attended and the kinds of events you’d like to see. My deepest thanks to Elaine Bowman, for all she’s done for the Bennett Center these past 19 years. I will greatly miss working with her and look forward to seeing her and her husband, Jonny, at University and community events in the future. Wishing all of you a wonderful summer. ~ Ellen M. Umansky, PhD A PUBLICATION OF THE CARL & DOROTHY BENNETT CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES AT FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY Summer 2015 annual newsletter VOLUME TWENTY • NUMBER ONE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
From the Director of the Bennett Center .......................... 1
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Highlights and Events ...................2
From the Program Manager .......2
Course Offerings – Fall 2015 .......4
Focus on Judaic Studies Faculty ................................5
Student Spotlight............................5
Looking Ahead .................................6
Lunch and Learn ............................6
Faculty & Staff Workshops .........6
A Year in the Making .....................7
Honor Roll July 2014 - June 2015 ....................8
This was a memorable year for the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies. We sponsored
or co-sponsored nine outstanding lectures, celebrated the Daniel Pearl World Music Days with a concert by klezmer rock band, Golem, and held our annual Holocaust Remembrance Service with Campus Ministry. We facilitated faculty and staff lunch discussions with guest speakers, co-sponsored with Campus Ministry five Shabbat services and dinners, collaboratively worked on a number of interfaith worship services, and invited members of the campus community to join us for lunch in the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot. Many of these and other events are described in greater detail in this newsletter.
We have a great deal to look forward to in 2015-2016. Our fall events are listed in this newsletter and spring events are almost in place. For a fuller description of fall events, go to our website at www.fairfield.edu/bennett. Among our spring events will be the inaugural Diane Feigenson Lecture in Jewish Literature, on Wednesday evening, March 30, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Made possible through a generous endowment by Diane’s sons, Andrew and Rob, with
additional contributions from family members, friends, University faculty and former students, Professor Feigenson taught in the University’s English Department for 20 years and the Judaic Studies Program since its inception in 1994. Given Diane’s interests in Yiddish and American Jewish literature, it is especially appropriate that our inaugural lecturer will be world-renowned, American-born Yiddishist, Dovid Katz, who is coming to Fairfield from Vilnius, Lithuania. His lecture is entitled “Exotic Exploits and Contentious Chapters in Modern Yiddish Literature.”
We are continuing to seek donations for the Feigenson endowment, to build on what Rob and Andrew Feigenson already have created. Donations are also needed to help support our other programs – no monetary contribution is too small or too large! There are, of course, additional ways in which you can support the Bennett Center. For those living in the area, come to our lectures and other special events, all of which are open to the public and most of which are free of charge. Tell others about us. And send us feedback ([email protected] or [email protected]) about the programs you’ve attended and the kinds of events you’d like to see.
My deepest thanks to Elaine Bowman, for all she’s done for the Bennett Center these past 19 years. I will greatly miss working with her and look forward to seeing her and her husband, Jonny, at University and community events in the future.
Wishing all of you a wonderful summer.
~ Ellen M. Umansky, PhD
A PUBLICATION OF THE CARL & DOROTHY BENNETT CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES AT FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
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Program at American University in Washington, D.C., traced the development of the literary and figure Yentl into a cinematic feminist icon and medical syndrome. This lecture is sponsored annually by the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation.
October 27 – Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert – Golem, a Klezmer rock band, performed traditional and modern Yiddish and Eastern European music which featured band leader and accordionist Annette Kogan.
November 10 – “A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” – The Judaic Studies academic program sponsored this talk by Dr. Alon Confino, author and professor at the University of Virginia.
November 19 – Seventeenth annual Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture – “I Believe in Zero: Learning from the World’s Children” – This year’s program featured Caryl M. Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, who spoke about the elimination of hunger in the developing world. The program was underwritten by the Frank Jacoby Foundation in collaboration with the Bennett Center and Fairfield’s Open VISIONS Forum.
December 3 – Bennett Center Lecture – “Whose Heroes? Hollywood Portrayals of the Bible” – Dr. Adele Reinhartz, professor of Religious Studies and Classics, University of Ottawa, Canada, presented an illustrated lecture focusing on the 1957 movie The Ten Commandments and the Christianization and Americanization of biblical heroes.
February 12 – Bennett Center Lecture – “Where Harry Met Sally: The Jewish Deli in America” – Dr. Ted Merwin, associate professor of religion and Judaic Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn., gave a talk on the deli as a social and cultural meeting place. Underwritten by Shayle Robins of Stratford, Connecticut.
February 23 – “Artists, Culture and Barbarism in Nazi Germany and the Postwar Period: Gray Zones, Difficult Histories, and the Challenges of Mastering the Past” – Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European Art, Claremont McKenna College, presented an illustrated lecture focusing on the recovery of looted works of art. Co-sponsored with the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Bellarmine Museum at Fairfield University.
March 17 – Carl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies – “Anti-Semitism in Europe Today” – More than 500 people filled the Quick Center to hear David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, speak on this timely topic. This annual lecture is made possible by a gift from Carl Bennett of Greenwich, Conn.
March 24 – Ninth Annual Lecture in Jewish-Christian Engagement – “From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews” – This special event, sponsored by the Bennett Center and the Center for Catholic Studies, featured Dr. John Connelly author and professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, who focused on changing attitudes towards Jews as ref lected in Nostra Aetate.
April 1 – Passover Seder – Sixty students, faculty, and staff enjoyed this year’s Seder, led by Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld.
April 20 – Annual Holocaust Commemoration – More than 80 students and members of the University and general communities gathered for a memorial service and candle-lighting ceremony, led by students, faculty, and staff. Our guest speaker was Judith Altmann, a Czech survivor of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. Also featured was local poet, Stephen Herz. The Bennett Center would like to extend a special thank you to Campus Ministry for co-sponsoring this event.
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September 11 – An Interfaith Prayer Service: Remembering 9/11 – The Center for Faith and Public Life, the Bennett Center, Campus Ministry, Catholic Studies, the Muslim Student Association, and others sponsored this service marking the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.
October 6 & 7 Annual Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence – Dr. Debόrah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, spent two days on campus meeting with members of the University and general communities. Dr. Dwork’s presentations included: “Flight from the Reich: Public
Actions, Private Lives,” Jewish Forum discussion, attended by faculty and staff; “Creativity in the Midst of Catastrophe: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe,” a public lecture; “After the War: The Jewish Identity of Holocaust Survivors” in Ellen Umansky’s “Introduction to Judaism” class; and “Choices and Decisions: Rescue and Rescuers During the Holocaust,” a
luncheon study session for clergy and educators hosted by Congregation Beth El in Fairfield. The Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence is made possible by a gift from David and Edith Chaifetz.
October 8–15 Sukkot Experience – For the fourteenth consecutive year, students in Ellen Umansky’s “Introduction to Judaism” class and members of KADIMA, the Jewish student organization, erected a sukkah on the plaza between Donnarumma and Canisius Halls. Throughout the week, members of the University community enjoyed having lunch and holding classes in the sukkah.
October 9 – Jewish New Year Get-Together – Faculty, staff, and students gathered to welcome the Jewish Year 5775. Sponsored by the undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies.
October 29 – The 2014 Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies – “Yentl: From Yeshiva Boy to Syndrome – Dr. Pamela S. Nadell, Patrick Clendenen Professor of Women’s and Gender History and Director of the Jewish Studies
Highlights and events…
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Dr. Debórah Dwork (center) with David and Edith Chaifetz.
Dr. Pamela Nadell (second from left) with Fred and Janet Plotkin of the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation and University President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J.
Caryl Stern (top row, center) with David Zieff, Dr. Philip Eliasoph, Fr. Jeffrey von Arx; and Yael Eliasoph. Seated are Deborah Zeiff, Dr. Umansky, and Julie Mughal
Carl Bennett (seated) with (left to right) David and Edith Chaifetz, Robin Kanarek, Dr. Ellen Umansky, David Harris, Rhoda Pappenheimer, and Steven Friedlander.
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From the Program Manager…
As some of you may know, I will be retiring as of the end of June. Working at the Bennett Center has been most enjoyable and fulfilling,
and I will miss all of the wonderful people I have come to know throughout the past 19 years. To be sure, this
is not a message of “good bye.” I will be staying in the area and fully intend to remain actively involved in the community.
I want to thank everyone for their support and friendship. In particular, I want to thank Ellen Umansky for giving me the opportunity to serve both the University and general communities in such a meaningful way. The Bennett Center will always be very special to me. It has been a privilege to help it become the vital and important programing resource that it is today.
I look forward to seeing many of you at Center programs in the future.
April 22 – Samuel and Bettie Roberts Memorial Lecture in Jewish Art – “Jewish Women & American Art” – Dr. Gail Levin, art historian, biographer and professor of art history at City University of New York, presented this bi-annual lecture which focused on works by Theresa Bernstein, Lee Krasner, Judy Chicago and others. This event was underwritten by the Samuel and Bettie Roberts Endowment Fund in Jewish Art at Fairfield University.
April 24 – Presentation by IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) Officers in Ellen Umansky’s “History of the Jewish Experience” class and a Faculty/Staff Lunch Discussion, made possible through the Tzahal Shalom Program of the Stamford Jewish Community Center.
April 24 – Interfaith Memorial Service in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was sponsored by Campus Ministry, the Bennett Center, Catholic Studies, the History Department, and others.
May 14 – Friends of the Bennett Center Reception – Ellen Umansky presented graduating senior Anna Edelman with the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Student Recognition Award at this reception held at the home of University President Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. (see “Student Spotlight” announcement). Dr. Umansky also presented Elaine Bowman with the Bennett Center’s Special Recognition Award for her years of service to the Center and the University’s Judaic Studies program.
Highlights and events (continued)… Focus on Judaic Studies FacultyIn March 2015, Dr. Patricia Behre presented a paper, “Sephardic Louisiana: Hybrid Fringe of the Colonial Diaspora,” at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association in Lafayette, La. She will present a paper, “Finding Those Who Don’t Want to be Found: The Artist as Guide to
Networks of Sephardic Sociability,” at the 2015 conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society.
Dr. Philip Eliasoph was featured as the guest lecturer at the University of San Francisco in March 2015 for a public event with invited members of the local Jewish community. The title of his presentation was “From Idol Smashers to International Icon Makers: The Myth of the Artless Jew.”
Dr. Jason Gaines, adjunct faculty member in the Religious Studies Department, will have his first book, The Poetic Priestly Source, published in September 2015 by Fortress Press. The book will focus on narrative poetic material in the Torah and will identify a complete poetic layer in the
text, running from the Book of Genesis through the Book of Numbers.
Professor Gail Ostrow hosted a community Yom Ha’Shoah event that showcased the final projects of students in her “Literature of the Holocaust” class. The program featured music and dance, original and “found” poems, as well as sculpture.
Rabbi James Prosnit concluded his 25th year as an adjunct professor in Fairfield’s Religious Studies Department. Rabbi Prosnit estimates that throughout his years at the University he has taught approximately 1,400 students, and he exclaims, “I love teaching at Fairfield,
and it has been a vital and much-appreciated part of my rabbinate since arriving in 1990.” Rabbi Prosnit is the senior spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport.
Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld’s new book, Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture, was published by Cambridge University Press in the spring. The book has been profiled or reviewed in noted publications such as The New Republic and The Boston Globe.
His next book, What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism, will appear later this year with Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Ellen Umansky began her two-year term as President of the Southern Jewish Historical Society. She also continued to serve on the Board of Directors of Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society of Religious Studies and Theology.
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Anna Edelman was recipient of both the 2014-15 Congregation B’nai Israel Academic Achievement Award (for her work in Judaic Studies courses) and the Bennett Center’s Student Recognition Award (for her leadership of KADIMA).
Anna states, “Having been raised in a culturally Jewish home, I have always had a sense of Jewish identity. However, coming to Fairfield, I began to gain academic insight into the historic and religious aspects of a Jewish identity that was searching for its own existence. [My experience at Fairfield] helped me find a personal connection to [my Jewish] heritage and tradition. I began to find my own meaning in Jewish holidays and to build upon classroom teachings, to eventually make a trip to Israel, [where I found a] culture that was at once familiar and unique. The invaluable classes and experiences I have gained, the risks I have taken, and the wonderful faculty whom I have met along the way have helped me understand a part of myself that I never knew was missing.”
In May, Anna graduated with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in Judaic Studies. She will continue her education as a nursing student at NYU this fall.
Anna Edelman ’15
This past year marked the fourth year that the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and Campus Ministry offered Shabbat services for students and University personnel, led by Rabbi Suri Krieger. At the April 24th service, Rabbi Krieger offered a farewell blessing to graduating seniors, Anna Edelman, Paige Maloney, and Kelsey Wallace; Trumbull High School graduate Maytal Bowman; Israeli emissaries Yarden Bengio, Yuval Hochman, and Lidor Osmo; and Fr. George Collins, S.J., Jocelyn Collen, and Elaine Bowman.
Monthly Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinners
Undergraduate Courses – Fall 2015
RELIGIOUS STUDIESIntroduction to Judaism – Dr. Ellen Umansky
Jewish Interpretations of Scriptures – Rabbi James Prosnit
People of the Book, Sacred Texts – Dr. Jason Gaines
HONORS PROGRAMFaith After the Holocaust – Dr. Ellen Umansky
ENGLISHLiterature of the Holocaust – Prof. Gail Ostrow
MODERN LANGUAGESElementary Hebrew I – Elaine Chitrit
Fairfield students will have the opportunity to select from the following undergraduate courses:
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A total of 264 under-graduate students took Judaic Studies classes throughout the 2014-15 academic year.
Judaic Studies classes remain popular…
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Looking Ahead… Fall 2015 ProgramsFor details and locations, see www.fairfield.edu/judaicstudies or call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066
Thursday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. – “American Jewry’s Historical and Contemporary Scorecard” – Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, Scholar-in-Residence
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. – “An Evening of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music” Galeet Darshati and Divahn Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert
Monday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m. – “Making America Harmonious: The Jewish Contribution to Popular Music” – Dr. Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m. – “Donors Choose: Expanding the Possibilities of Education” – Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m. – “Germans Who Stood Up to Hitler: The Resistance Movement in Nazi Germany” – Anne Nelson, author and lecturer, Columbia University Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies
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LUNCH AND LEARN
For eight consecutive Fridays throughout the winter/spring semester, 34 adult learners from the greater
Fairfield area studied with Ellen Umansky. This year’s topic was “Movers and Shakers: Men and Women
Who Made a Difference in American Jewish Life - Part II.” Classes focused on religious leaders, political
activists, writers, educators, and communal organizers from the late 18th through the middle of the 20th
centuries, such as Gershom Seixas, Isaac Harby, Clara Lemlich [Shavelson], Lillian Wald, and Rabbi Joshua
Jewish cultural club co-sponsored the annual Jewish New Year gathering, built a sukkah, attended Shabbat services and dinners, hosted the annual Chanukah celebration, hosted a Megillah reading and Purim party, and took part in the annual Student Activities Day and Holocaust Remembrance Service.
KADIMA
Past and present officers of KADIMA (left to right) Anna Edelman, Dimitri Skuret, Jake Offermann, Brooke Imbornone, Kelsey Wallace, Allison Greenbaum, and Stephanie Galea (not pictured)
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DONOR HONOR ROLL…
Golden Benefactors: $100,000 - $150,000 Carl Bennett
Special Benefactors: $50,000 - $99,000 Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation
Special Sponors: $15,000 - $34,000 Frank Jacoby Foundation
Sponsors: $5,000 - $14,999 David and Edith Chaifetz Andrew Feigenson* Robert Feigenson* Helane & Alan Smith* Zhou Family*
Patron: $1,000 +William Hulseman (’98)** Henry Katz Richard & Carol Jacobson*** Shayle Robins Claudia Schechter* John Wolfe*
Friend: $500 + Seth and Judy Lerner Carol & Stephen Landsman* Susan & Joel Lichtenstein Edith & Peter Robbins*
Supporter: $200 + Richard & Shirley BeckerStuart Belkin & Maureen Dewan** Elaine & Jonathan Bowman Cheryl Bundy Cynthia & Peter Burnim Bobbi & Barry Coller David Ellenson Hariette Hirsch Milton Jacoby** Ilse Levi
Lenore & Noel Robin Elaine & Gerald Rosenberg Ellen Umansky* Marshall & Myra Watnick* George Wolfe* Irving & Andrea Kern*
Contributor: up to $199 Eileen AdamsClaire Baker*Sandra BerkmanMarie-Dominique BoyceMark Edinberg*Jackie Eskin Kelly FalconeCharles Heller*C. Robert & Jane HillmanJudith & Robert JacobsonJo-Anne JaneskyEdith KatzenHerman KleineShelley KreigerBeth LazarMuriel LefsetzAlice MadwedMuriel MannStephen & Jo Philis MichaelsonLinda MurrayMarlene PolanskyJoan RosenbaumAnita & Harold RosnickStephanie & Stuart RossLisbeth & George RudermanAlice Saperstein*Amy Saperstein*Leah Schechter*Samuel Schulman*Diane SchwartzEdythe Siegel EstateRobert Spaulding & Tova ClaymanYvonne WaynikDeborah Zuckerman
BENNETT CENTER DIRECTOR Ellen M. Umansky, PhD Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Judaic Studies: Modern Jewish History and Thought, Women’s Spirituality
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR Gavriel Rosenfeld, PhD Professor of History: Modern European History, Modern Germany, Modern Jewish History, The Holocaust
ASSOCIATED FACULTYPatricia Behre, PhD Associate Professor of History: Early Modern France,Medieval Europe
Cecelia Bucki, PhD Associate Professor of History: Labor and Immigration
Philip Eliasoph, PhD Professor of Visual and Performing Arts; American Arts Society: Italian Renaissance Civilization, Media and Propaganda in 20th Century Europe
July 2014 – June 2015The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies was founded in 1993 by a gift from Carl and the late Dorothy Bennett of Greenwich, Conn.
Endowments have funded: The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Chair in Judaic Studies, the Samuel and Bettie Roberts Memorial Endowment in Judaic Studies Fund, and the Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature.
We wish to thank the following donors for their generous support of the Bennett Center and the Judaic Studies Program from July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015:
ADJUNCT FACULTY Maureen Dewan, MA, JD Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies: Jewish History, Women in Judaism
Jason Gaines, PhD Department of Religious Studies Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern Studies
Gail Ostrow, MS Lecturer, Department of English: Literature of the Holocaust, American Jewish Literature
Rabbi James Prosnit, DD Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies: Classic Rabbinic Texts, Jewish Liturgy
Elaine Chetrit, MA Department of Modern Languages Hebrew
JUDAIC STUDIES STAFF Elaine F. Bowman Program Manager
Help the Bennett Center continue to offer undergraduate student activities, host special lectures and events, and purchase Judaic DVDs for the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and the Center’s resource room.
Name ________________________________________________________________________________
Phone number (_____) __________________ E-mail _________________________________
Amount enclosed $ ___________________
Gifts to the Bennett Center are tax-deductible.
Make checks payable to Bennett Center, Fairfield University. Contributions to the Feigenson Endowment should be indicated as such on the memo line of your check.
Mail check(s) and form to: Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, DMH 245, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
Golden Benefactor………$100,000+ Special Benefactor………..$50,000+ Benefactor ............................$35,000+ Special Sponsor ..................$15,000+ Sponsor .................................... $5,000+
Patron ........................................ $1,000+ Friend ............................................ $500+Supporter .................................... $200+Contributor.........................up to $199
FRIENDS OF THE BENNETT CENTER AT FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Gifts in Kind :Individuals interested in contributing books, documents, or other items related to Judaic Studies may contact the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066.
Thank you to Congregation Beth El for providing memorial candles for the Holocaust Remembrance Service.
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