Agenda

Jewish identity beyond religion

Conference by Fania Oz-Salzberger

Thursday, June 15,

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

Conference included in the programme "The identity from absence: the imagined otherness and a nation building"

Fania Oz-Salzberger is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. She completed her doctoral degree at Oxford University. A former Fellow of the Jerusalem and Berlin Institutes of Advanced study, she also held posts as Chair of Israel Studies at Monash University and Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. Her books include Translating the Enlightenment (Oxford, 1995), Israelis in Berlin (Jerusalem and Berlin, 2001) and, with Amos Oz, Jews and Words (Yale, 2012). She has published prolifically on the history of ideas, the Enlightenment, Jewish origins of modern political thought, and Israeli-European relations. Her opinion articles appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and elsewhere. She has been named the new Director of Paideia, The European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden, in 2016.

Lecture in English

Organized by: Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies (Patronat Call de Girona) and Chair Ferrater Mora of Contemporary Thoughts from the University of Girona. Address: Sant Llorenç street, no number. Photo: ara.cat