UM Frankel Center Event – Todd Endelman

Thayer Building - Room 2022 202 South Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

A Jewish Race Scientist in Twentieth-Century Britain Todd M. Endelman, Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan This 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 […]

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The Society of Savage Jews: The Politics of Jewish Primitivism

Thayer Building - Room 2022 202 South Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Samuel J. Spinner The 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 […]

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Is Spinoza Still Salient? Are the Rabbis Really Relevant? Thinking in the Era of Instrumentalized Knowledge-Making

Thayer Building - Room 2022 202 South Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Dr. Gilah Klentenik and Dr. Rachel Rafael Neis The 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 […]

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