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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event – Todd Endelman
DESCRIPTION:A Jewish Race Scientist in Twentieth-Century Britain\nTodd M. Endelman\, Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies\, University of Michigan\n \nThis lecture will explore how Redcliffe Salaman\, an eminent Jewish scientist in early twentieth-century Britain\, embraced a racial understanding of Jewish peoplehood and how he developed a biological history of the Jews. It will emphasize the ubiquity of racial notions of physical and intellectual inheritance in scientific circles in Britain before World War II. Above all\, it will stress how racial categories allowed secular Jewish intellectuals in Britain (and elsewhere) to develop ways of thinking about the bonds of Jewishness that transcended older notions that saw Jewish difference solely in religious terms. It will also tease out the connections between Salaman’s views of Jewishness and his pathbreaking work breeding blight-free potatoes. \nThis is a hybrid lecture in Room 2022 South Thayer Building. Zoom registration: https://myumi.ch/RWNV4 \nTodd M. Endelman is Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. A native of California\, he was educated at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and Harvard University\, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976. He is a specialist in the history of the Jews in Britain and in the social history of modern European Jewry. He taught at Yeshiva University\, Indiana University\, and the University of Michigan. While at Michigan\, he was director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for eleven years. He retired from teaching in 2012 and now divides his time between Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and Brooklyn\, New York. His books include The Jews of Georgian England\, 1714-1830 (1979); Radical Assimilation in Anglo-Jewish History\, 1656-1945 (1990); The Jews of Britain\, 1656-2000 (2002); Broadening Jewish History (2014); and Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (2015). He recently completed a biography of the Anglo-Jewish race scientist\, country gentleman\, and historian of the potato Redcliffe Salaman.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-todd-endelman/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Society of Savage Jews: The Politics of Jewish Primitivism
DESCRIPTION:Samuel J. Spinner\n \n\n\n\n\nThe unlikely poetic relationship between the German poet Else Lasker-Schüler and the Yiddish and Hebrew poet Uri Zvi Grinberg spans the political range of Jewish primitivism from the bohemian left to the radical right. Aesthetic primitivism catalyzed Lasker-Schüler’s poetry and visual art and is most strikingly evident in the “Society of Savage Jews\,” a utopian community of writers and artists that existed only in her writings and artwork; Grinberg borrowed this trope and used it for very different ends—his savage Jews were Zionist pioneers\, creating a nation-state. This lecture will explore the aesthetic and political flexibility of Jewish primitivism\, showing how it could marshal the same aesthetics in pursuit of opposing politics. \nHybrid Event\nSouth Thayer Building Room 2022\nRegister for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/844Z6 \nSamuel Spinner is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language\, Literature\, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His book Jewish Primitivism\, on primitivism in modern Jewish literature\, photography\, and graphic art\, was published in July 2021 by Stanford University Press. He is currently researching a book on the aesthetics of monumentality in Holocaust museums and literature. His work has appeared in PMLA\, MLN\, Prooftexts\, and German Quarterly. Spinner is a co-editor of “German Jewish Cultures\,” a book series published by Indiana University Press and serves as an editor of the Yiddish Studies journal In Geveb.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/the-society-of-savage-jews-the-politics-of-jewish-primitivism/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Is Spinoza Still Salient? Are the Rabbis Really Relevant? Thinking in the Era of Instrumentalized Knowledge-Making
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gilah Klentenik and Dr. Rachel Rafael Neis\n\n\n\n\n\nThe pressure to produce scholarship that’s relevant and publicly engaged comes as a welcome reproach and corrective to the elitism and insulation of academia. Yet\, what is the cost of such a product-driven mindset with its embeddedness in market ideologies and neoliberal deliverables? How do the logics that subsidize this “Western” enterprise marginalize divergent voices and sideline alternative methods? Turning to the rabbis of late antiquity and early modern Spinoza\, opens us to seeing our particular academic enterprises and\, more broadly still\, the state of being human\, differently. This dares us to consider: what might it mean to think in the absence of teleology\, anthropocentrism\, and their supremacist rationales? \nRegister for the Zoom stream here: https://myumi.ch/y99w4 \nGilah Kletenik\, a scholar of philosophy and Jewish thought\, and Rafe Neis\, an historian of ancient Judaism\, come together to talk about teleology\, being human\, and the possibilities for meaning-making.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/is-spinoza-still-salient-are-the-rabbis-really-relevant-thinking-in-the-era-of-instrumentalized-knowledge-making/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
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