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The Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture

The Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture

Fall 2005: "Law and Patience: Unenthusiastic Reflections on Jewish Messianism"
Presented by Leon Wieseltier

On Tuesday, November 22, 2005, the annual Gruss Lecture was presented by Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of The New Republic, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in Martin Lipton Hall located in D'Agostino Hall. The lecture was open to the public. Following the lecture was a short cocktail reception. Please see below for Mr. Wieseltier's biographical information and pictures of the event.

Biographical Information

Wieseltier
  • Born in 1952 in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Educated at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Columbia College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard University.
  • 1979-1982 Member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
  • 1983-present: Literary Editor of The New Republic.
  • Author of Kaddish, Against Identity and Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace, and editor of The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent: Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling.
  • Leon has published widely on Jewish culture and politics.

Event Pictures

posed after lecture Dean Richard Revesz
Leon Wieseltier
Professor Moshe Halbertal		 prelecture Leon Wieseltier
Professor Moshe Halbertal
question and answer

Leon Wieseltier
Professor Moshe Halbertal
Audience Members

reception Professor Moshe Halbertal
Audience Member
reception Leon Wieseltier
Audience Members 		prelecture Leon Wieseltier
Professor Moshe Halbertal
Audience Member
prelecture Professor Noah Feldman
Leon Wieseltier