LA event: Prof. Arieh Saposnik on Arab Recognition of Israel's Right to Exist

06/07/2011 - 8:30amMeretz USA is delighted to co-sponsor with Americans for Peace Now a special breakfast program featuring Professor Arieh Saposnik, Director of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 8:30 a.m.

Factor's Deli - Back Room 9420 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles (just east of S. Beverly Drive)

Baget Breakfast Buffet begins at 8:30 a.m.

Discussion with a Q & A session to follow.

Cost: $10

RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com

About Prof. Saposnik:

Professor Arieh Saposnik was born in Oakland California and grew up in Haifa, Israel. He received his Ph.D. in History and Jewish Studies from New York University, and after holding the Jess Schwartz Chair in Hebrew Culture at Arizona State University, joined the faculty at UCLA in 2009 as Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and as Gilbert Chair in Israel Studies. His research focuses on the history of Zionism and Israel and on the varieties of Jewish nationalism. His book, "Becoming Hebrew: The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine" was published in 2008. He is currently working on two parallel book projects: a study of the shifting imagery and symbolism of the sacred in the making of Zionism and Israeli culture; and a history of Territorialism and the Jewish Territorialist Organization.