EUGENE–The University of Oregon’s Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies welcomes a visiting scholar, Mark Raider, to campus next week for two free public lectures.

Raider, associate professor and chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Albany, State University of New York, will deliver two lectures on Monday, May 21, on the UO campus.

At 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St., Raider will discuss "Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and the Holocaust: The Odyssey of an American Jewish Leader." Raider is currently at work on a scholarly biography of Wise, a major American Jewish leader during the 1940s and ‘50s who spent the early years of his career in Portland.

Earlier, at 12:30 p.m. in Room 375 of Grayson Hall, 1101 Kincaid St., the Judaic Studies program will sponsor a lunchtime seminar with Raider. He will discuss "The Romance of Zionism and American Jewish Women: The Case of the Plough Woman." Attendees are encouraged to bring a lunch. Beverages, fruit and cookies will be provided.

Raider is the author of "The Emergence of American Zionism" (1998); co-editor of "Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism" (1997); and co-editor of a forthcoming new critical edition of "The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine."

For more information, call the Judaic Studies office at (541) 346-5288 or see the program’s recently updated web site at <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jdst/> for full details on scheduled courses and events.

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