Inaugural lecture of the new dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies
To celebrate the appointment of Professor Barry Levy, former Chair of the 平特五不中 Department of Jewish Studies and Director of the Jewish Teacher Training Program, to the Deanship of the Faculty of Religious Studies of 平特五不中 a group of friends and former students is sponsoring Dean Levy聮s inaugural lecture.
Montrealers of all creeds are thus invited to enjoy Dean Levy聮s talk on the following topic:
"Jewish, Christian, and Moslem Responses to the Hebrew Bible"
Tuesday, April 1, 1997 at 6:00 p.m.
Redpath Hall
平特五不中 Main Campus
Admission is free
Barry Levy joined 平特五不中 in 1975. After completing his education in New York at Yeshiva University and New York University, he was hired as assistant professor at Brown University. Shortly after his Brown appointment, 平特五不中聮s former chair of Jewish Studies Ruth Weiss (now at Harvard University) encouraged him to join her department. At the end of his second year at Brown, Levy took 平特五不中 up on its offer. "I figured I would come to 平特五不中 for a couple of years and go back to the States. And here I am. I liked it very much. I liked the city, I liked the University, and obviously I made it a career."
Current Jewish Studies chair Eugene Orenstein says of his predecessor, "He聮s been a pillar of the Department of Jewish Studies. As well as being an excellent teacher (Levy won the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award in 1992), he had a devotion to building the department."
Levy has published Planets, Potions and Parchments, a book he released to go with an exhibition on the history of science at the David M. Stewart Museum. Levy was curator of the 1990 exhibition and persuaded the Israelis to lend a fragment of the Dead Sea scrolls. Proficient in several ancient and modern languages, Dean Levy has worked on a new translation of the Babylonian Talmud due to be released this year. (Source: Eric Smith ).
