Thursday, March 4 at 6:30 pm
THE SALO W. BARON LECTURE

Judaism in America: Promised Land or Europe\'s Diaspora?

Dr. Susannah Heschel
Introduced by Dr. Burton L. Visotzky

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Jewish thinkers spoke of America as the great hope for the future of Judaism because its democratic principles embodied the true moral essence of Judaism. This lecture explores the notion that the reliance of American Judaism on European immigrants for its leaders for the past 200 years has tended to undermine the construction of an "authentic" Jewish tradition on American soil.

Dr. Susannah Heschel is Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and a specialist in modern Jewish thought and feminist theology. She is author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus and editor of On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader and Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Dr. Burton L. Visotzky is Nathan and Janet Appleman Professor in Midrash and Intereligious Studies, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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