“Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Postwar Era: The American Distinction” Dr. Susannah Heschel Monday, June 10, 7–8:30 p.m.
Dr. Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.
In her lecture, Dr. Heschel will examine the efforts of Jewish and Christian historians and theologians to create a dialogue between the faiths in the second half of the 20th century. She will contrast the situation in Europe, where Christian theologians led the religious dialogue, with that of the United States, where their Jewish counterparts championed a new affirmation of the faith of the other. As the Holocaust loomed as an insistent break in past polemics, their pioneering efforts led to an emerging recognition that interfaith may be as important as faith itself.
Dr. Heschel is a specialist on the subject of Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of antisemitism. She is the author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (2010) and Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998), which won the National Jewish Book Award, as well as the editor of Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (with Robert P. Ericksen, 1999). She has served as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Academic Committee (1999–2008) and is a current member of its Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust.
The Monna and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture honors Holocaust survivors and their fates, experiences, and accomplishments. Monna Steinbach Weinmann (1906–1991), born in Poland and raised in Austria, fled to England in autumn 1938. Otto Weinmann (1903–1993), born in Vienna and raised in Czechoslovakia, served in the Czechoslovak, French, and British armies; was wounded at Normandy; and received the Croix de Guerre for his valiant contributions during the war. Monna Steinbach and Otto Weinmann married in London in 1941 and emigrated to the United States in 1948.
This annual lecture has been made possible by Janice Weinman Shorenstein.
Randolph Braham
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
“Postmortem of the Holocaust in Hungary: A Probing Interpretation of the Causes”
June 20, 2012
Past Lectures
Marianne Hirsch
William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Co-Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia University
“Fantasies of Return: The Holocaust in Jewish Memory and Postmemory”
June 21, 2011
Hasia Diner
Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
“Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America: Facts and Fictions of the Early Years”
May 16, 2007
Deborah Dash Moore
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director, Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and Director, Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta; Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council; and chair of the Council’s Academic Committee
LECTURE
“Denial on Trial: Defending the History of the Holocaust in a British Courtroom”
September 10, 2003
Peter Suedfeld
Dean Emeritus of Graduate Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
