August 31, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Peter Bailley

Daphne Tsimhoni to Lecture about Israel

Daphne Tsimhoni will give a series of lectures about Israel in September and October, 2000, at Knox College in Galesburg, IL.

Tsimhoni's first talk, entitled "Israel and the Middle East at the Beginning of the Third Millennium: Challenges and Prospects," will be given on Tuesday, September 19. Her second lecture, "Religious Freedom in the State of Israel," will be presented a week later, on Tuesday, September 26. Tsimhoni will give her third and final lecture, "Christians in Israel: Issues of Integration and the Search for Identity," on Tuesday, October 3. All lectures will be held, free and open to the public, in the Common Room of Old Main at 7:30 p.m.

Tsimhoni holds a Ph.D. from the University of London in Modern Middle East History, and is the author of The Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social, and Political Study (Praeger 1993). She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and a Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This fall she is also serving as Visiting Professor of History at Knox College. In addition to presenting the lectures, she will teach a course examining the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its main phases of development from the late 19th century up to the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.

The class is sponsored in part by the Jewish Chautauqua Society, and the lecture series is made possible through the support of an anonymous donor, the Rose and L. Mitchell Rudman Endowment Fund for Judaic Studies, the Jewish Chautauqua Society, and the Nixon Fund for Religious Life.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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Writer: Ryan Williams