Release date: Feb. 12, 2008
Contact: Elaine Justice at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu

Noted Author, Literary Editor to Give Emory's Tenenbaum Lecture

Leon Wieseltier, author and literary editor of The New Republic, will give a talk entitled "A Passion for Waiting: Messianism and the Jews," during Emory University's annual Tenenbaum Family Lecture in Judaic Studies at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21. Light refreshments will be served following the free, public event, which will be held in the reception hall of the Michael C. Carlos Museum on the Emory campus. For more information, visit www.js.emory.edu or call 404-727-6301.

Wieseltier has published widely on Jewish culture and politics. Among his books are "Kaddish," a National Book Award finalist in 2000, which interweaves a meditation on Jewish prayers of mourning with a narrative of Wieseltier's grief following his father's death. A native of Brooklyn, he was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1979 to 1982 and joined The New Republic in 1983.

The Tenenbaum Family Lecture Series, sponsored by Emory's Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, celebrates the family of the late Meyer W. Tenenbaum of Savannah, Ga., a 1931 alumnus of Emory College and a 1932 alumnus of Emory Law School. Other Tenenbaum family members who are Emory alumni include: his son, Samuel J. Tenenbaum of Columbia. S.C., Emory College class of 1965; nephew-in-law Ronald Kronowitz of Savannah, Emory Law School class of 1962; and nephew Bert Tenenbaum of Savannah, Emory College class of 1975.

Emory University (www.emory.edu) is one of the nation’s leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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