"State, Sovereignty, & the Outside Within: Mendelssohn's View from the 'Jewish Colony'"
A lecture by Dr. Willi Goetschel, Professor of German and Philosophy, University of Toronto
In the context of the debate about Jewish emancipation Mendelssohn speaks of the Jews as "indigenous colonists." This talk explores the critical significance and implications that Mendelssohn's unusual statement suggests.
This is the fifth lecture sponsored by the CHFA Visioning Grant Lecture Series in Religious Studies and also the fifth in a series of Posen Lectures this semester.
Sponsored by the Posen Foundation in Jewish Secularism, the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and the Religious Studies Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
This lecture is free, open to the Five College Community and wheelchair accessible. For more information, email religion@hfa.umass.edu or call 413-545-2550.