Between Biography and Historiography: Gershom Scholem’s “Redemption through Sin”
Location:
The 2018 Adam Cherrick Lecture
Sunday, March 4, 2018 | 4:30 pm
560 Music Center – Ballroom
560 Trinity Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63130
Between Biography and Historiography: Gershom Scholem’s “Redemption through Sin”
This lecture investigates the biographical circumstances around Gershom Scholem’s writing of his famous 1937 essay, “Redemption through Sin.” Both the Nazi assault on the German Jews and Scholem’s own romantic struggles help explain some of the surprising features of this path-breaking work.
About the Speaker
David Biale, Ph.D. is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of California, Davis.
For additional information, contact Stephen Scordias at scordias@wustl.edu or314-935-8567.
Presented by The Department of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at Washington University in St. Louis. Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and Hank Webber and Chris Jacobs.
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Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman
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