Daniel E. Koshland was a humanitarian, philanthropist, and a leader of the Congregation for many years. This Fund, started in 1987 to honor his memory, provides for an annual lecture at Temple Emanu-El by a Jewish Scholar.


Following is a list of Koshland Lectures since 1987:

2007: THE TEMPTATION OF RABBI HIYYA BAR ASHI
Rabbi Michael Chernick
Rabbi Michael Chernick was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and received his doctorate in talmudic literature from the Bernard Revel Graduate School. Rabbi Chernick is the Deutsch Family Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at HUC-JIR's New York campus. He spent many years at Kibbutz Yahel, the Reform movement's first kibbutz in Israel, where he founded its summer Judaic Studies program. Rabbi Chernick has written extensively about rabbinic literature and has taught and lectured here and abroad.

2006: Just What Is a "Golden Age?"
The author of Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Professor Maria Rosa Menocal was born in Cuba and raised in Philadelphia. Maria Rosa Menocal received her Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Pennsylvania and taught at Bryn Mawr College and at Pennsylvania and then, for the last 16 years, at Yale where she is now the R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the Whitney Humanities Center.

2004: "From the East Side to the West Coast:
The Past, Present, and Future of American Judaism
Rabbi David Ellenson is the president of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.

2003: "The Book of Genesis: The Birth of Humanity & the Emergence of the Human Order"
Dr. Abusch is the Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis University.

2002: "Judaism and Muslim Religions Confront the Challenges of Modernity"
Dr. Jacob Lassner, Phillip and Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization, director of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, and Sackler Professor in the Department of Middle East and African History at Tel Aviv University.

2001: "What can Medieval Spain teach us about Muslim-Jewish Relations?"
Professor David Nirenberg, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Humanities at The John Hopkins University

2000: "The Intersection of Biotechnology and Religion"
Dr. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor of the Journal Science

1999: "Reform Judaism Confronts the 21st Century"
Rabbi H. Yoffie, President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

1998: "Why Read Jewish History"
Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor and Taube Family Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Stanford University

1997: "Revealer of Secrets: The First Hebrew Novel"
Rabbi Dov Taylor, Senior Rabi of Congregation Solel, Highland Park, Illinois, and Translator and Commentator of the landmark publication Revealer of Secrets: The First Hebrew Novel

1996: "Tales of Great Jewish Mystics"
Dr. Howard Schwartz, Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

1995: "The Mystery of Rabbi Martin Riesenburger of Berlin"
Rabbi Bernard M. Zlotowitz, Senior Scholar of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

1994: "Creation, Philosophy, and Spirituality: Aspects of Psalm 19"
Dr. Alan Cooper, Professor of Bible and Director of the School of Graduate Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati

1993: "The Role of the Jews in the Trial of Jesus: Modern Scholarship vs. Modern Theater"
Michael J. Cook, Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati Campus

1992: "The Jewish Intellectual and the Jews: The Case of Di Kliatshe" (The Mare) by Mendele Mocher Sforim
Ruth S. Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University

2000: "Underground Judaism: The Religion of the Marranos"
Yosef 1991 Yerushalmi, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society, and Director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University

1990: "The Extermination of the Jews of Europe in Present Historical Consciousness"
Saul Friedlander, Professor of History at UCLA and Professor of Modern European History at Tel Aviv University

1989: "'The Alien in Your Midst': Reflections on the Biblical Ger"
Jacob Milgrom, Professor of Biblical Studies, University of California at Berkeley

1988: "Jewish Historical Claims to the Land of Israel"
Amos Funkenstein, Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University