Shabbat Lecture Series Fall 2025

Friday, November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Service is in person in the Brith Shalom Sanctuary and on YouTube.
Dinner and Lecture are in person only.

Dr. Ido Telem will present during dinner (for those who sign up for dinner).
Dinner cost is $36.00 per person.  Click here to register.

Title: The Road-Building Bard: Poetry and the Sanctification of the Land 

Description:  This talk will explore how modernist Hebrew poets of the 1920s and 30s used verse to sanctify the challenging labor of nation-building in the land of Israel. By examining key poems, we will see how poetry created a new national ethos, transforming the figure of the pioneer into a central icon of the Jewish homeland.

Bio: Ido Telem is the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Rice University. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago, and specializes in modern Hebrew and German literature and thought, with a focus on the cultural history of Zionism.

Ido’s research has been published in the Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies.