LA event, August 31: "The Social Ferment in Israel" with Professor David Myers

We are proud to co-sponsor the following event, in conjunction with Americans for Peace Now (Southern California):

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 8:00 a.m., Factor's Deli, Back Patio

David Myers is Chair of the UCLA History Department and was previously director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies  (see bio below). He has just returned from a trip to Israel, and penned the opinion piece Where Hope is to be Found published in The Jewish Journal.

Bagel Breakfast Buffet - $12 (pay at door)

Factor's Deli (Back Patio) - 9420 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035 (1/2 block East of Beverly Drive)

Street Parking on Pico or Rexford begins at 8am - READ SIGNS (Valet parking available but usually starts after 8am)

RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com

About David Myers:

David N. Myers received his A.B. from Yale College in 1982, and undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before completing his doctorate at Columbia in 1991. He has written extensively in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history, with a particular interest in the history of Jewish historiography. Among other writings, he is working on a book on the past and future of the Jewish nation (Indiana), and his most recent published book was Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Brandeis University Press, 2008).  He has also authored Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (Oxford: 1995), Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (Princeton, 2003), and  Myers has edited six books, including The Jewish Past Revisited and Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases.

During the 2009/10 academic year, Myers was the Katz Distinguished Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn. Myers has taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Russian State University for the Humanities, and visited at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem) and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (Philadelphia). Since 2003, he has served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Myers is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. He has served as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies from 1996-2000 and 2004-2009. At UCLA, Myers teaches lectures and seminars in Jewish history.