November
24
This event has taken place
Jews and Muslims in France
with Dr. Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley
and Dr. Maud Mandel, President of Williams College
France is home to six million Muslims and half a million Jews; more Jews and Muslims live together there than in any other country except Israel. While extreme acts of Islamist-inspired anti-Semitism tend to dominate today’s headlines, theirs is a long history of shared experience, shared cultural sensibilities and solidarities across generations. What has changed the nature of their relationship? How has living in an avowedly secular although majority Catholic country influenced their ties?
Tuesday, November 24 |
11:00 am Eastern
Free
Free
A Virtual Series
Watch previous lectures in the Series
This program is sponsored by The Streicker Family and Dr. Masha Mimran.
Tuesday, November 24 |
11:00 am
Free
Free
France is home to six million Muslims and half a million Jews; more Jews and Muslims live together there than in any other country except Israel. While extreme acts of Islamist-inspired anti-Semitism tend to dominate today’s headlines, theirs is a long history of shared experience, shared cultural sensibilities and solidarities across generations. What has changed the nature of their relationship? How has living in an avowedly secular although majority Catholic country influenced their ties?
This event has taken place
A Virtual Series
Watch previous lectures in the Series
This program is sponsored by The Streicker Family and Dr. Masha Mimran.
About the series
The French Jewish Experience
For a thousand years, French Jews have swung on a pendulum from triumph to tragedy. Some of the greatest Jewish rabbis, composers and thinkers, going as far back as Rashi and his grandson Rebenu Tam, have made France their home. Yet despite their wide-ranging successes, France’s Jews are no strangers to the woes of the modern Jewish experience.