Visiting Israeli Scholar Amos Morris-Reich

Amos Morris-Reich, director of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa, Israel, will deliver two public lectures and teach a course this fall at Knox College. Morris-Reich's teaching and speaking at Knox is sponsored by the Joseph B. Glossberg Visiting Israeli Scholar Program.

Morris-Reich will give a talk, "Life in Two Dimensions: A History of 'Territory' in Israeli Culture," at 4 p.m., Tuesday, September 22, in the Alumni Room, Old Main. He will speak on "Photography and Racial Imagination: Three Cases from Weimar and Nazi Germany," at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 1, in the Alumni Room. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Morris-Reich is also teaching a course at Knox this fall, History of Anti-Semitism and Race Theory. His research areas include Jewish history, German social thought, the history of Anti-Semitism, and Israeli cultural ideology. His publications include the book "The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science."

Morris-Reich received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has taught and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Jewish Culture at the University of Leipzig, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Free University of Berlin, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has directed the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa since 2008.

Since its inception in 1995, the Visiting Israeli Scholar Program has brought a number of Israeli professors to teach at Knox and give public lectures. The program is supported by a gift from, and named in honor of, Knox College trustee Joseph B. Glossberg.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 48 countries. Knox's 'Old Main' is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.