Ivan Marcus: "What Happened to the Jews of Medieval France? A Diaspora that Disappeared"

Ivan Marcus, Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History, Professor of History and of Religious Studies, and Chair of Yale's Program in Judaic Studies, gives a lecture at the Duke Center for Jewish Studies entitled: "What Happened to the Jews of Medieval France? A Diaspora that Disappeared." Professor Marcus has written Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany (E. J. Brill, 1981), which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Culture and Acculturation in Medieval Europe, which was published by Yale University Press in 1996. His most recent book is The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times (University of Washington Press, 2004).He has received numerous fellowships, most recently a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellowship, both in 1999. He is a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is Chair of the Publications Committee of the Yale Judaica Series, published by Yale University Press.