Please join us for the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies, presented by Professor Berel Lang on "Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again."

Details

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | 1:30-3:30 pm
Place: Babbidge Library, Class of '47 Room, UConn Storrs

This event is free and open to the public. A kosher lunch will be served.

About the Talk:

The historian Salo Baron attacked the "lachrymose view of Jewish history" as mistakenly focused on events or practices of persecution and violence in that history--at the same time providing strong evidence that still more basic factors shaped the history of Jewish flourishing and survival.  But the same lachrymose view still dominates current popular Jewish understanding, and this has (on the talk's claim) severe, even dangerous practical consequences.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Berel Lang, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the State University of New York, Albany, is the author of twelve books, including Writing and the Moral Self, Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, The Anatomy of Philosophical Style, Writing and the Holocaust, and Primo Levi:  The Matter of a Life. He has been visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, the University of Connecticut, and Wesleyan University.

If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271.