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As 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."