Series of memorial lectures commemorating the mathematician Selig Brodetsky. The first lecture was held in 1960.
- 1960 - Eliahu Elath - Hebrew and the Jewish Renaissance
- 1961 - Morris Ginsberg - Nationalism - A Reappraisal
- 1962 - Edwin Samuel - Britain's Legacy to Israel
- 1963 - Louis Rosenhead - Professor Selig Brodetsky: scholar, dreamer, man of action
- 1964 - James Parkes - The new face of Israel
- 1965 - [[]] - '
- 1966 - M. J. Lighthill - Waves in liquids and gases
- 1967 - Schneier Levenberg - European Jewry today
- 1968 - Isaac Berenblum - The use of the scientific method in biomedical research
- 1969 - [[]] - '
- 1970 - Cornelius Lanczos - Judaism and science
- 1971 - [[]] - '
- 1972 - Sydney Goldstein - Views on the meaning of Zionism and of applied mathematics fifty years ago and now
- 1973 - Ritchie Calder - The internationalist in the world of nationalism
- 1974 - [[]] - '
- 1975 - [[]] - '
- 1976 - Samuel Fisher - Brodetsky, leader of the Anglo-Jewish community
- 1977 - Thomas George Cowling - Isaac Newton and astrology
- 1978 - [[]] - '
- 1979 - John Archibald Wheeler - Einstein: His Strength and His Struggle
- 1980 - Eric Moonman - EEC policy in relation to the Middle East, Israel and matters concerning Jews
- 1981 - Shlomo Argov - Europe and Arab-Israeli peacemaking : a critique
- 1982 - Leon Mestel - Astronomy, a mirror to physics
- 1983 - Terence Prittie - Whose Jerusalem?
- 1984 - H. L. Price - Brodetsky, his work, and how we coped without computers
- 1985 - Greville Janner - Race discrimination and the law : a Jewish dimension
- 1986 - A. D. Young - The Technion and future developments in civil aviation
- 1987 - [[]] - '
- 1988 - [[]] - '
- 1989 - Harold Fisch - Two nations or one? : the crisis in zionism
Lecture series discontinued after 1989 and revived in 2002 - [1]
- 2002 - Menachem Fisch - Reading God's Two Books: Science and the Talmud's Debate on Religion
- 2003 - David B. Ruderman - Medicine, science and the transformation of Jewish culture in early modern Europe
- 2004 - Jean-Pierre Kahane - Raphael Salem: His Life, His Work, and His Influence on Mathematics
- 2005 - Norbert M. Samuelson - Reflections on the Importance of Maimonides for Contemporary Jewish Thought: In Memoriam of the 800th Anniversary of His Death
- 2006 - Stephen Frosh - Psychoanalysis, Nazism, and "Jewish Science"
- 2007 - Judith Grabiner - Chance, Fairness, Jews, and Judaism
- 2008 - Noah Efron - A Passion for the Universal: Science, Jews and Others
- 2009 - Karen Parshall - James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
- 2010 - Geoffrey Cantor - Darwin among the Jews
- 2011 - Sander Gilman - Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe, and why this is a bad thing
- 2012 - Jenifer Glynn - My Sister, Rosalind Franklin
- 2013 - Steven Gimbel - Einstein’s Jewish science
- 2014 - Charles Burnett - Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the astrolabe: The establishment of the new science in the 12th century
- 2015 - Erika Hagelberg - The Construction of Genetic Identities: The Case of the Jewish Genome
- 2016 - [appears not to have taken place this year]
- 2017 - Michael Krom - The Dead Sea: What it is, why it is disappearing… and can we do anything about it disappearing?
- 2018 - Mitchell G. Ash de:Mitchell Ash - Not only Freud: Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna, from the Habsburg era until the early Post-War years
External link
- Selig Brodetsky Lecture, University of Leeds
- University of Leeds, Centre for Jewish Studies
Series of memorial lectures commemorating the mathematician Selig Brodetsky. The first lecture was held in 1960.
- 1960 - Eliahu Elath - Hebrew and the Jewish Renaissance
- 1961 - Morris Ginsberg - Nationalism - A Reappraisal
- 1962 - Edwin Samuel - Britain's Legacy to Israel
- 1963 - Louis Rosenhead - Professor Selig Brodetsky: scholar, dreamer, man of action
- 1964 - James Parkes - The new face of Israel
- 1965 - [[]] - '
- 1966 - M. J. Lighthill - Waves in liquids and gases
- 1967 - Schneier Levenberg - European Jewry today
- 1968 - Isaac Berenblum - The use of the scientific method in biomedical research
- 1969 - [[]] - '
- 1970 - Cornelius Lanczos - Judaism and science
- 1971 - [[]] - '
- 1972 - Sydney Goldstein - Views on the meaning of Zionism and of applied mathematics fifty years ago and now
- 1973 - Ritchie Calder - The internationalist in the world of nationalism
- 1974 - [[]] - '
- 1975 - [[]] - '
- 1976 - Samuel Fisher - Brodetsky, leader of the Anglo-Jewish community
- 1977 - Thomas George Cowling - Isaac Newton and astrology
- 1978 - [[]] - '
- 1979 - John Archibald Wheeler - Einstein: His Strength and His Struggle
- 1980 - Eric Moonman - EEC policy in relation to the Middle East, Israel and matters concerning Jews
- 1981 - Shlomo Argov - Europe and Arab-Israeli peacemaking : a critique
- 1982 - Leon Mestel - Astronomy, a mirror to physics
- 1983 - Terence Prittie - Whose Jerusalem?
- 1984 - H. L. Price - Brodetsky, his work, and how we coped without computers
- 1985 - Greville Janner - Race discrimination and the law : a Jewish dimension
- 1986 - A. D. Young - The Technion and future developments in civil aviation
- 1987 - [[]] - '
- 1988 - [[]] - '
- 1989 - Harold Fisch - Two nations or one? : the crisis in zionism
Lecture series discontinued after 1989 and revived in 2002 - [1]
- 2002 - Menachem Fisch - Reading God's Two Books: Science and the Talmud's Debate on Religion
- 2003 - David B. Ruderman - Medicine, science and the transformation of Jewish culture in early modern Europe
- 2004 - Jean-Pierre Kahane - Raphael Salem: His Life, His Work, and His Influence on Mathematics
- 2005 - Norbert M. Samuelson - Reflections on the Importance of Maimonides for Contemporary Jewish Thought: In Memoriam of the 800th Anniversary of His Death
- 2006 - Stephen Frosh - Psychoanalysis, Nazism, and "Jewish Science"
- 2007 - Judith Grabiner - Chance, Fairness, Jews, and Judaism
- 2008 - Noah Efron - A Passion for the Universal: Science, Jews and Others
- 2009 - Karen Parshall - James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
- 2010 - Geoffrey Cantor - Darwin among the Jews
- 2011 - Sander Gilman - Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe, and why this is a bad thing
- 2012 - Jenifer Glynn - My Sister, Rosalind Franklin
- 2013 - Steven Gimbel - Einstein’s Jewish science
- 2014 - Charles Burnett - Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the astrolabe: The establishment of the new science in the 12th century
- 2015 - Erika Hagelberg - The Construction of Genetic Identities: The Case of the Jewish Genome
- 2016 - [appears not to have taken place this year]
- 2017 - Michael Krom - The Dead Sea: What it is, why it is disappearing… and can we do anything about it disappearing?
- 2018 - Mitchell G. Ash de:Mitchell Ash - Not only Freud: Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna, from the Habsburg era until the early Post-War years
External link
- Selig Brodetsky Lecture, University of Leeds
- University of Leeds, Centre for Jewish Studies