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561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu or
Stacia Smith
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FAU Presents Lecture: "Love and Eros in Jewish Thought"

BOCA RATON, FL (December 9, 2004) - Florida Atlantic University's Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies, The Alvin E. Sasso Lecture Series and the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will host a free public lecture entitled "Love and Eros in Jewish Thought" on Tuesday, December 14 at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101, FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. The lecture will be presented by Yehudit Kornberg Greenberg, professor of philosophy and religion and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College.

Greenberg's fields of teaching and research include modern and contemporary Jewish thought, women and religion, and cross-cultural studies of the body. She writes on issues related to language, love and the body in religious and philosophical writings. She is the author of "Better than Wine: Love, Poetry and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig" and has written numerous articles on modern and contemporary Jewish thought in leading journals such as "The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy." She has contributed essays to several books in modern and postmodern Jewish philosophy, and is presently completing her second book entitled "The Metaphysics of Desire: Human and Divine Love in Jewish Thought."

A native of Israel, Greenberg has lectured nationally and internationally. She is on the editorial board of the "Journal of the American Academy of Religion" and is a general editor of "Studies in the Judaism Series" for Peter Lang Academic Publishers. She has been a very active voice and presence in the religious and spiritual life of the central Florida community, and is a member of the board of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center and the Central Florida Hillel. She is currently serving as president of the faculty and chair of the department of philosophy and religion at Rollins College.

For further information on this event, contact 561-297-0035.

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