The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization has occurred annually since 1986 with the co-sponsorship of the University and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and serves as an important means for the campus and wider communities to share the findings of noted experts in the field. Recent Klutznick lecturers have included:
- Shaul Kelner, " From Chicago to Moscow: Demanding Human Rights for Soviet Jews," May 5, 2026
- Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy," May 12, 2025
- David Kertzer, "The Continuing Controversy Over the Silence of Pope Pius XII During the Holocaust," April 16, 2024
- Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers, "American Shtetl: The Intriguing Story of Kiryas Joel, a Booming Hasidic Town in Suburban New York," May 16, 2023
- Laura Arnold Leibman, "A Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America," May 22, 2022
- Kenneth Seeskin, "Es iz schwer tzu sien a yid: It is Hard to be a Jew," April 29, 2021
- James Loeffler, "Double Amnesia: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century", May 21, 2019
- Psoy Korolenko & Anna Shternshis, "Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews During WWII", May 7, 2018
- Ruth Gavison, "Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State," May 18, 2017
- David Nirenberg,"Neighboring Faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam," April 12, 2016
- Ruth Langer, "Dealing with 'Difficult' Prayers: Jewish Liturgy in an Age of Jewish-Christian Dialogue," May 28, 2015
- Jeremy Dauber, "Sholem Aleichem: A Life in Fact and Fiction," June 11, 2014
- Arthur Green, "Hasidism in the Modern Jewish Imagination," May 6, 2013
- Israel Bartal, "Dreamers or Pioneers? The Jewish Community in 19th Century Jerusalem," May 14, 2012
- Irwin Cotler, "Human Rights Derailed: Delegitimizing the State of Israel," April 7, 2011
- Anthony Julius, "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century," May 3, 2010
- Tova Hartman, "Gender, Judaism and Freud: Confessions of an Orthodox Jewish Feminist," March 4, 2009
- Hillel Halkin, "After Post-Zionism: Building the Israel That Could Be," March 12, 2008
- Peter Gay, "Guenter Grass and My German Problem-Again," April 17, 2007