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Podcast: LBI London
Episode: Cosmopolitanism and the Jews
Description: Prof. Sander L Gilman Chairman, LBI London
Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry Emory University
A lecture organized by the Leo Baeck Institute.
Cosmopolitanism and the Jews
The newest buzzword for globalization is cosmopolitanism. As with many such reuses of older concepts, cosmopolitanism has a complex history, specifically in the German-speaking lands. It is this history and its relationship to the history of German Jewry from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust that will be examined – in a global and perhaps even cosmopolitan manner.
Wednesday, 2nd O...