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Saturday, October 27th, 2007 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manGave my talk "Twenty things about Hebrew they never taught you in Cheder" today. I had thought there was going to be a programme of talks on the Shabbos afternoon like at Limmud Conference, and perhaps that was the original plan, but as it turned out there was just me, talking in shul at the סעודה שלישית. It went down well; there were about sixteen people present (of which only two women, my mother and a friend of hers, because women never go to Shabbos מנחה in Newcastle. The rabbi said, beforehand, "Actually, there are twenty-two things about Hebrew they never teach you in Cheder: aleph, beis, gimel, daled..." :o)
Tomorrow I give my other talk at the Newcastle Day Limmud. Since I appear to have been put on against Alex Cowan on "Why Were the Jews So Interesting? Philosemitism in Early Modern Europe", Sir Jeremy Beecham on "The Forgotten Issue: Israel's Arab Citizens", Malcolm Weiseman on "An Analysis of the Jewish Mentality Through Its Humour", Harris Clarke on "Chagal's Murals for the Moscow Jewish Theatre", and Clive Lawton on "Studying the Jewish Brain: an Introduction to Talmud," I reckon I'll be lucky to get any attendees against that bunch of crowd-pullers!
Ah well, with my parents in attendance (and possibly my brother too), I can't do worse than the time I gave it at Marom, when I got two people in the audience. (The other time I gave it, at Yakar, I got twenty-something.)
Tomorrow I give my other talk at the Newcastle Day Limmud. Since I appear to have been put on against Alex Cowan on "Why Were the Jews So Interesting? Philosemitism in Early Modern Europe", Sir Jeremy Beecham on "The Forgotten Issue: Israel's Arab Citizens", Malcolm Weiseman on "An Analysis of the Jewish Mentality Through Its Humour", Harris Clarke on "Chagal's Murals for the Moscow Jewish Theatre", and Clive Lawton on "Studying the Jewish Brain: an Introduction to Talmud," I reckon I'll be lucky to get any attendees against that bunch of crowd-pullers!
Ah well, with my parents in attendance (and possibly my brother too), I can't do worse than the time I gave it at Marom, when I got two people in the audience. (The other time I gave it, at Yakar, I got twenty-something.)
