The Foundation for Jewish Studies

Lecture by Professor Marsha Rozenblit

What has life historically been like for Jews in these bastions of Jewish culture? Dr. Rozenblit provides an understanding of Austro-German Jewry by exploring the place of Jews in these regions.

Dr. Rozenblit is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has been on the faculty since 1978. A social historian of the Jews of Central Europe, she is the author of two books, Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I and The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity.

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Professor Walter Laqueur

in conversation with

Rabbi Joshua Haberman

Professor Laqueur and Rabbi Haberman discuss:

* The New Germany and Its Jews

* The Rise of anti-Semitism

* Israel and the Jewish Future

 Dr. Laqueur was the Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London from 1965-1994. He was founder and editor with George Mosse, of the Journal of Contemporary History and of Survey 1956-1964. He was founding editor of the The Washington Papers. He was Chairman of the International Research Council CSIS Washington. He was Professor of History of Ideas at Brandeis University 1968-1972, University. Professor at Georgetown University 1976-1988.

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Lecture by Dr. Steven Lowenstein

“Tumultuous” is an understatement in describing the historic relationship between Jews and the rest of the German state. Jews have been in Germany since the early fourth century, and German-Jewish relations have gone back and forth between tolerance and violence. This lecture addresses the topic of assimilation and enriches our understanding of how woven into (or excluded from) the fabric of the nation Jews in Germany were before the Holocaust.  

Dr. Steven Lowenstein earned his master’s and doctorate from Princeton University before beginning his teaching career. Dr. Lowenstein has been teaching at American Jewish University (formerly University of Judaism) since 1979.

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