Susannah Heschel, "Faith and Politics in a Complex Time: Christian-Jewish Relations in the Third Reich"
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4pm to 5:30pm
About this Event
Free EventAs part of the Center's Jewish-Christian Lecture Series, Prof. Susannah Heschel will deliver a lecture, "Faith and Politics in a Complex Time: Christian-Jewish Relations in the Third Reich."
Co-sponsored by the Boston College Jewish Studies Program and Film Studies Program.
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of anti-Semitism. Her numerous publications include "Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus" (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award and Germany's Geiger Prize, and "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany" (Princeton University Press). She is the author of over seventy articles and has edited several books, including "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel"; "Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust"; and "Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism."