Jews and Science
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL Greenfield Summer Institute
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies University of Wisconsin–Madison July 9–13, 2017
Jews and Science
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL Greenfield Summer Institute
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies University of Wisconsin–Madison July 9–13, 2017
The Greenfield Summer Institute is sponsored by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies through the generosity of Larry and Roslyn Greenfield. All photos this page by UW–Madison, University Communications © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome...... 6
Program...... 10
Abstracts...... 14
Book Club...... 27
Transportation Information...... 28
Campus Map...... 29
Dining...... 30
Notes...... 31
Special Thanks...... 52
Engage with Jewish Studies...... 53 Welcome to the 18th Annual Greenfield Summer Institute!
The faculty and staff of the Center for Jewish Studies are delighted that you have chosen to join us for this week of learning, noshing, and fun. A few things to keep in mind this week: • All lectures take place in the Plenary Room, 1310 Grainger Hall. • A light breakfast (baked goods, fruit, coffee) will be available from 8:00 a.m., Monday through Thursday, in the atrium of Grainger Hall. • Food is allowed in the lecture hall. This year you may bring beverages and food into the lecture hall. • Unfortunately, we are unable to control the temperature of the lecture hall. You may wish to bring a sweater. • Recycling bins are located in the back of the lecture hall, should you wish to recycle any paper materials. • On Monday afternoon, there will be a showing of one episode of Genius, a TV series produced by National Geographic. • On Tuesday afternoon there will be a book club with Stuart Rojstaczer, the author of The Mathematician’s Shiva.
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• Guests staying at The Graduate Hotel can take advantage of a free shuttle service from the hotel to Grainger Hall. Monday–Thursday, there will be shuttles reserved exclusively for the Greenfield Institute attendees. The shuttle will drive to Grainger Hall at 8:15 a.m. If you need shuttle accommodations outside of these hours, please reserve this ahead of time with the Front Desk. Please note, the shuttles outside of the above time frame are based on availability and are on a first come, first served basis. • Please be sure to fill out an evaluation form and return it to the Registration Table at the end of the Institute. • More information about Madison restaurants and attractions can be found at visitmadison.com and visitdowntownmadison.com.
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Jews and Science 7 • If you brought a smart phone, iPad, or other mobile device, you may wish to download the MobileUW app, which includes a campus map with real-time bus information. MobileUW app is available at mobile. wisc.edu. • Campus guests may now access the UW Wireless Network for free. On your wireless device, choose “UW Net” from the wireless options. Then open a web browser and point to https://login.wisc.edu. From the page presented, click “Request guest access” and complete the required fields on the form. Accept the terms of use and your access is confirmed. • Please feel free to speak with any of our administrative staff at the Registration Table if you have any questions or concerns. We hope you enjoy your time at the Greenfield Summer Institute!
8 18th Annual Greenfield Summer Institute Jews and Science 9 PROGRAMPROGRAM
Monday, July 10: Encounter with the Modern World
8:00 a.m. Registration in Grainger Hall
9:00 a.m. Jews and The Science of “Race” in Turn-of-the-Century America Eric L. Goldstein, Emory University
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Science for the People: Popular Visnshaft in Yiddish Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. The Meaning of Science for the Founders of Academic Jewish Studies Amos Bitzan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:45 p.m. Break (Capital Cafe in Grainger Hall)
3:00 p.m. Film Screening (optional) Genius, National Geographic TV series
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Tuesday, July 11: Ancient and Medieval Science
9:00 a.m. Science in Ancient Israel Alice Mandell, University of Wisconsin–Madison
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Well-being is a Skill Richard J. Davidson, University of Wisconsin–Madison
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. Judaism and Science: Maimonides’ Cosmos Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:45 p.m. Break (Capital Cafe in Grainger Hall)
3:15 p.m. Book Club: The Mathematician’s Shiva (optional) Stuart Rojstaczer
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Wednesday, July 12: Philosophers, Writers, and Science
9:00 a.m. Sick Jewish Writers: The Art and Science of Writing with Tuberculosis Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. William Friedman, William Shakespeare, and the Birth of Modern Cryptography Irwin Goldman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. The Science of Memory Brad Postle, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:45 p.m. Break
5:30 p.m. Closing dinner Grainger Hall 975 University Avenue
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Thursday, July 13: Torah Codes and Reflections
9:00 a.m. The Strange and Mathematically Troubling Story of the Torah Codes Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Panel Discussion: Reflections on Themes Moderated by Jordan D. Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin-Madison Panelists: Sam Gellman, UW-Madison Tanya Schlam, UW-Madison Matthew Banks, UW-Madison
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Eric L. Goldstein, Emory University Jews and The Science of “Race” in Turn-of- the-Century America Monday, July 10, 9:00 a.m.
In the United States (as elsewhere) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewishness was often understood in both popular and scholarly discourses as a matter of “race.” In order to assert some control over how Jews were understood by the scientific and medical communities, and also as a way to contest some of the more threatening conclusions about Jews, Jewish scientists and physicians conducted studies of Jewish “racial” characteristics during this period and published them in leading journals. This lecture will examine some of these works (focusing on Franz Boas and Maurice Fishberg), laying out the contours of the discussion and assessing the various methods open to Jewish scientists in responding to the dominant scientific discourses of their day.
Eric L. Goldstein is the Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is also Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies. He is the author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006), which won the Saul Viener Book Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Theodore Saloutos Prize of the Immigration and Ethnic Historical Society, and the Sami Rohr Literary Prize Choice Award of the Jewish Book Council. His most recent book, written with Deborah Weiner, is On Middle Ground: The Jews of Baltimore, 1764 to Present (forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press). He is currently at work on a history of the reading culture of Yiddish speaking Jews in America and Eastern Europe between 1875 and 1930.
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Tony Michels, UW-Madison Science for the People: Popular Visnshaft in Yiddish Monday, July 10, 10:45 a.m.
What does it mean to become an American? For thousands of Jews who came to the United States around the turn of the 20th century, to become an American meant to acquire a secular education. But many of them were barely literate, and few had sufficient time or money for formal schooling. Under the banner “knowledge is power,” Jewish intellectuals initiated a concerted drive to bring all branches of science to the immigrant masses in their mother tongue, Yiddish. The encounter with visnshaft was a revelation to those who had little prior exposure to it in Eastern Europe. Through it, thousands of Jews discovered the modern world.
Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York, co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Judaism: The Modern Era, and co-editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies.
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Amos Bitzan, UW-Madison The Meaning of Science for the Founders of Academic Jewish Studies Monday, July 11, 1:30 p.m.
In the early 19th century, Jewish scholars looked to Wissenschaft (German for “science”) to solve the problems posed by modern life to Jewish religion and culture. What did they mean by science and why did they believe that it was so crucial for the revival of Judaism?
I am a historian of modern European Jewry with a focus on cultural and intellectual history in the German lands, from the Enlightenment to the end of the Second World War. My current book project is titled “Discipline in the Age of Pleasure: The Birth of Jewish Studies in Nineteenth-Century Germany.” It links the beginnings of the academic study of the Jewish past to the rise of pleasure reading among Jews and others. I have published articles on the “Science of Judaism” movement and two of its most famous figures, the Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891) and the scholar of Jewish literature and liturgy, Leopold Zunz (1794-1886). At UW, I teach modern Jewish history, the Holocaust, and the history of antisemitism and anti-Judaism. Before joining the Department of History and the Center for Jewish Studies, I was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Stanford University and a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and my A.B. at Princeton University.
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Alice Mandell, UW-Madison Science in Ancient Israel Tuesday, July 11, 9:00 a.m.
What evidence do we have for the ways in which ancient Israelites thought about natural phenomena? How did they harness their environment to deal with the processes of birth, aging, and death? What evidence do we have for how ancient Israelites thought about the Divine’s control over nature? This talk will examine the blurring of the categories of science and religion in ancient Israel and Judah drawing up the biblical and archaeological record.
Alice Mandell began her new position of Assistant Professor in the department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the summer of 2016. She is a former Fulbright scholar. She was also the winner of the 2016 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship for her paper entitled, “The Adoption of the ‘Adoption’ Formula in Inner-biblical Discourse.” Her book Cuneiform Culture and the Ancestors of Hebrew is planned for publication in Routledge’s The Ancient World series. Past research includes a sociolinguistic approach to the Canaanite Amarna Letters and the development of Canaanite cuneiform practices. Her research on this topic examines multilingualism and code-switching in contexts of written diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age. Her research on the Iron Age Levant examines the question of literacy in ancient Israel and the use of writing in contexts of ritual and performance. Currently, she is co-authoring a book and several articles that examine the materiality of ritual and religious spaces in ancient Israel and Judah (Reconstructing Israelite and Judean Religions: Religion as Performance and Materiality [London: Routledge, 2017]). She is also co-authoring a translation of the Amarna Letters for SBL’s Writings From the Ancient World series. This book will offer an extensive critical apparatus as well as discussions of the geo-political context of individual letters.
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Richard J. Davidson, UW-Madison Well-being is a Skill Tuesday, July 11, 10:45 a.m.
Scientific evidence suggests that we can change our brains by cultivating habits of mind that will improve well-being, including happiness, resilience, compassion and emotional balance. Each of these characteristics can be shaped and modified within our brain by experience and training, as shown by the ground-breaking research at the Center for Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, UW-Madison. In this talk, Dr. Richard Davidson will share how using mental training to cultivate well-being can have a positive impact on happiness, creativity and productivity in the work place and at home.
Richard J. Davidson is the William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, and Director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology and has been at Wisconsin since 1984. He has published more than 375 articles, numerous chapters and reviews and edited 14 books. He is the author (with Sharon Begley) of “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” published by Penguin in 2012.
He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research including the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society. He was the year 2000 recipient of the most distinguished award for science given by the American Psychological Association - the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. He was the Founding Co-Editor of the new American Psychological Association journal EMOTION. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006. In 2011, he was given the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences from 2011-2017 and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Mental Health for 2014-2016.
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Steven Nadler, UW-Madison Judaism and Science: Maimonides’ Cosmos Tuesday, July 11, 1:30 p.m.
It is often taken for granted that science and religion are (and must be) at odds with one another. In fact, even in the Middle Ages, a good deal of progressive science was done by devout Christian, Jewish and Muslim thinkers. Maimonides, perhaps the greatest Jewish philosopher of all time, was committed to reconciling religious faith with rational scientific and philosophical truth. In this lecture we will consider just how he approached this reconciliation.
Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities, and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age, Spinoza: A Life (winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award), Rembrandt’s Jews (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and (as editor) The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century and Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy. His new book, with his son Ben Nadler, is the graphic history Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (Princeton).
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Sunny Yudkoff, UW–Madison Sick Jewish Writers: The Art and Science of Writing with Tuberculosis Wednesday, July 12, 9:00 a.m.
Tubercular Yiddish and Hebrew writers who sought both “the cure” and creative inspiration at sanatoria around the globe have a fascinating history. Tracking the health travels of writers across Europe, America, and the Middle East, we will ask what it meant for a Jewish writer at the turn of the twentieth century to be diagnosed with tuberculosis--then an incurable disease.
Sunny Yudkoff is an assistant professor in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic and in the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She researches Yiddish and Hebrew literature and works in the field of Medical Humanities. She is on the editorial board of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies and her work has appeared in Literature and Medicine, Prooftexts, and Studies in American Jewish Literature.
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Irwin Goldman, UW-Madison William Friedman, William Shakespeare, and the Birth of Modern Cryptography Wednesday, July 12, 10:45 a.m.
Early in the 20th century, the eccentric millionaire George Fabyan built a scientific research laboratory in Geneva, Illinois in part to investigate the idea that Sir Francis Bacon had written Shakespeare’s plays and embedded a code in Shakespeare’s First Folio. Fabyan recruited a plant geneticist named William Friedman, and beginning in 1916, Friedman developed a series of approaches to encryption that were to revolutionize the field of cryptography. His most remarkable work used ideas from genetics and statistics, focusing on analysis of frequencies of letters in language use. Friedman’s efforts resulted in solutions used by the U.S. government and its allies to solve complex military ciphers, and to break the Japanese Purple code during WWII, leading to the development of the National Security Agency. Irwin L. Goldman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has worked for 25 years. His expertise is in breeding and genetics of cross-pollinated vegetable crops, including carrot, onion, and table beet. He has developed and co-developed numerous strains of these crops, many of which are in use in cultivars around the world. He has trained a number of graduate and undergraduate students in plant breeding. Goldman teaches two courses in plant breeding and plant genetics as well as a course on vegetable crops, a course in evolutionary biology, and a course in plants and human wellbeing. He is a co- founder of the Open Source Seed Initiative and was a faculty advisor to the founding members of the Student Organic Seed Symposium. Goldman served from 2004-2010 as an Associate Dean, Vice Dean, and Interim Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW-Madison. He is a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He serves as a Technical Editor for the journal Crop Science and is the editor of Plant Breeding Reviews. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois, an M.S. from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Goldman did postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jews and Science 21 ABSTRACTSABSTRACTS
Brad Postle, UW-Madison The Science of Memory Wednesday, July 12, 1:30 p.m.
Once the topic of speculation by philosophers, our understanding of how our memories work has grown dramatically over the past half-century. In particular, the careful scientific study of one dramatic case, a patient known by his initials H.M., defined many of the principles that have guided memory research up through the present day. This presentation will address some of what we know about memory, as well as what it’s like to carry out scientific research on a phenomenon with which everyone has intimate experience, and about which everyone has some intuition.
Bradley R. Postle is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has been since 2000. He has a BA in Government, with a Concentration in International Relations, from Cornell University, PhD in Systems Neuroscience from MIT, and trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. His laboratory studies the cognitive neuroscience of human visual cognition, attention, and working memory, and consciousness. He has authored nearly 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications and a textbook: Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience (2015, Wiley).
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Jordan Ellenberg, UW-Madison The Strange and Mathematically Troubling Story of the Torah Codes Thursday, July 13, 9:00 a.m.
In 1994, a group of Israeli mathematicians published a paper with a startling claim, apparently backed up by sound mathematical reasoning: that the words of the Torah contained predictions of events that took place thousands of years after its writing. The controversy over the “Torah codes” spawned bestselling books and created an intellectual rift among Jewish mathematicians. I’ll talk about how the claim worked, how it eventually unraveled, how the question looks from both a mathematical and Jewish perspective, and explain how the underlying statistical principle applies more broadly to investment returns and assessing results in social science.
Prof. Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research centers on number theory and algebraic geometry. Ellenberg is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of the novel “The Grasshopper King,” a novel, and “How not to be wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” which was a New York Times best seller in 2014 and the winner of the 2016 Euler Book Prize.
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Panel Discussion: Reflections on Themes Thursday, July 13, 10:45 a.m.
Moderated by Jordan D. Rosenblum, UW-Madison Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin– Madison, where he is also Director of the Religious Studies Program and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies. He is the author of Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge University Press, 2010; paperback, 2014); The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and co-editor of Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco- Roman World (Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, 2014). His research focuses on the law, literature, culture, and history of the classical rabbinic period, particularly on the kosher food laws. Currently, he is working on a book entitled Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach about Rabbinic Literature.
Panel Speakers: Sam Gellman, Tanya Schlam, and Matthew Banks
Sam Gellman is the Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He was born in Evanston and raised in a Philadelphia suburb. Gellman earned his A.B. from Harvard University in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1986. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, Gellman joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1987. Major areas of interest in Gellman’s laboratory include chemical biology, organic chemistry and biophysics.
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Tanya Schlam is an Associate Scientist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) and the Department of Medicine. She has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers. Her research focuses on health behavior change (primarily smoking cessation). In particular, she is interested in developing interventions to help people acquire behavioral and cognitive control skills to optimize health outcomes in the face of environmental, interpersonal, and psychological challenges. She has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications. She sees patients in the general mental health clinic at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital.
Matthew Banks is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Affiliate Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Banks grew up in New Jersey, where he attended the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union Counties (now the Golda Och Academy). Dr. Banks earned his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Current research interests focus on what changes in the brain when we lose and regain consciousness during natural sleep, under anesthesia and under pathological conditions. Dr. Banks is currently president of the Board of Directors of Beth Israel Center, the Conservative congregation in Madison, WI, and is trained as a meditation instructor by the Institute for Jewish Sprituality.
Jews and Science 25 MONDAYABSTRACTS FILM SCREENING
Screening of the TV Series, Genius Monday, July 10, 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.
National Geographic presents Genius, the network’s first-ever scripted series, based on the Walter Isaacson book Einstein: His Life and Universe and executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, with Howard also directing the first episode. The all-star cast includes Geoffrey Rush as Professor Einstein, Johnny Flynn as Albert in his youth and Emily Watson as the scientist’s second wife — and first cousin — Elsa Einstein. Over 10 episodes, the series takes Einstein’s story beyond the halls of academia to explore his struggles to be a good husband and father, and a man of principle during a period of global unrest. His daringly creative mind often landed him in trouble with his loved ones and peers, but also helped him to usher in groundbreaking discoveries that reshaped modern science.
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Book Club: The Mathematician’s Shiva Tuesday, July 11, 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Stuart Rojstaczer
This is an exciting opportunity to meet Stuart Rojstaczer, winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction, and discuss his intriguing debut novel. He will give a talk and answer questions.
The Mathematician’s Shiva is a hilarious, spellbinding novel set in Madison, Wisconsin where Rachela Karonovitch, known as possibly the greatest female mathematician of her generation, dies from cancer. Her son, Alexander, a meteorologist also known as “Sasha,” is in charge of organizing the shiva for her. “However, the famous Polish émigré mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million- dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully took the solution to her grave. To Sasha’s chagrin, a ragtag group of socially challenged mathematicians arrives in Madison and crashes the shiva, vowing to do whatever it takes to find the solution — even if it means prying up the floorboards for Rachela’s notes.” – goodreads.com
Jews and Science 27 TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION
Madison Metro Transit operates several free bus routes on the UW campus: routes 80, 81, 82, and 84. Route 80 provides daytime and evening service; 81 and 82 operate in the evening, and 84 during the day. For more information on bus routes, see mymetrobus.com or call (608) 266-4466.
Hotel shuttles Few hotels offer complimentary shuttle transportation to the UW Campus. For more information, inquire directly with the hotel.
For guests staying at The Graduate: You may call (608) 257-4391 for any pickups or shuttles to additional destinations within a two mile radius of the hotel.
Taxis Union Cab: (608) 242-2000 Green Cab: (608) 255-1234 Construction Around Campus Memorial Union is currently under construction, and traffic on Langdon Street may be affected. The Union and Terrace remain open during construction.
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Distances
The Graduate to Grainger Hall: 0.5 miles Hampton Inn & Suites to Grainger Hall: 0.5 miles Inn on the Park to Grainger Hall: 0.9 miles Lowell Center to Grainger Hall: 0.4 miles Grainger Hall to Union South: 0.5 miles Grainger Hall to Memorial Union: 0.2 miles Grainger Hall to UW Hillel: 0.4 miles Grainger Hall to Capitol Square: 1.4 miles Grainger Hall to Library Mall / State Street: 0.3 miles 28 18th Annual Greenfield Summer Institute Jews and Science 29 DINING
There are many great options for lunch and dinner on or near the UW-Madison campus. The cafeteria in Grainger Hall is open for lunch; food includes sandwiches and salads. Food carts on Library Mall (at the end of State Street, next to the University Bookstore and Memorial Library) offer a wide range of cuisines.
Memorial Union, just down Langdon St. that sits on the shores of Lake Mendota between Helen C. White Library and the Armory (Red Gym), features several cafeteria-style restaurants that serve lunch and dinner: Strada (pizza, pasta dishes, piadinas) Peet’s Coffee & Tea Carte (salad and sandwiches) Daily Scoop (ice cream) Der Rathskeller (pub food)
A few of our favorite restaurants with vegetarian menu items are listed below:
Aldo Cafe (cafe fare) and Mediterranean Cafe (lunch only) Steenbock’s on Orchard (fine dining) 625 State St., (608) 251-8510 Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 N. Orchard St., (608) 204-2733 Rising Sons Deli (Laotian and Thai) 617 State St., (608) 661-4334 Chipotle (Mexican) 658 State St., (608) 250-4613 Sunroom Cafe (cafe fare) 638 State St., (608) 255-1555 Wasabi Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 449 State St., (608) 255-5020 University Club (New American; open for breakfast and lunch) Great Dane (brew pub) 803 State St., (608) 262-5023 123 E. Doty St., (608) 284-0000 Cento (Italian fine dining) Soga Shabu Shabu (Asian fusion) 122 W. Mifflin St., (608) 284-9378 508 State St., (608) 819-6780
Adamah Neighborhood Table at Hillel is closed for the summer.
More information about campus-area restaurants is available at visitdowntownmadison.com
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Ros Greenfield Simone Schweber Tony Michels Judith Sone Tracey Mason Joan Hong Cate Bonesho Rebekah Sherman Nancy Zucker CALS Registration Team Heather Cooper Leah Leighty Julia Vander Meer Grainger Hall technical Staff Fluno Center Staff David Whedon The Graduate Hotel Staff Karol Larson Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel Staff Inn on the Park Hotel Staff Lowell Center Staff
Greenfield Summer Institute Committee: Jordan D. Rosenblum, Michael Bernard-Donals, and Judith Sone
52 18th Annual Greenfield Summer Institute ENGAGE WITH JEWISH STUDIES
Founded in 1991, the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison brings together a variety of disciplines to study and interpret Jewish and ancient Israelite history, religion, politics, society, and culture. Drawn from over a dozen different departments, our faculty have achieved national and international prominence for teaching and scholarship. Undergraduates can pursue either a major or certificate in Jewish Studies, and our alumni have gone on to pursue careers in law, medicine, secular and religious education, academe, business, community organizing, and the rabbinate. Each year, the Center offers to the university and general community a variety of educational and artistic programs, including lectures, conferences, roundtable discussions, concerts, and film screenings.
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