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Join us for this fascinating lecture by Paul Franks (Yale University) Kabbalah of the Post-Kantian Idealists: The Christian Kabbalah Project’s Significance for German and Jewish Philosophy Tuesday, 19 March, 18.00-19.30 Elvet Riverside 141

We are delighted to host Paul Franks (Yale) for a presentation on how Jewish esotercism pervaded modern German philosophy DU Theology Society @DurhamPhilosop1 Durham History

An opportunity to buy S&H pennpress.org/.../secularism… with a 50% discount. Use code FOUNDERSDAY24

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The new volume Goethe in Context (cambridge.org) Cambridge University Press offers a comprehensive introduction to Goethe's poetry and thought. I wrote Chapter 7 'Goethe & Religion' included in the inputs of an impressive assembly of Goethe scholars, much greater than me.

Kafka transformed kafka-research.ox.ac.uk/.../kafka-tran…... Conference, 18 September 09:00 to 20 September 17:00 Wadham College, Oxford. I will be speaking about 'Kafka's Transient Jewishness' on Sept 20. German at Oxford

On October 30 at 3.30pm, we'll host the authors Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman online for a reading and discussion of their important book Gleichzeit (Suhrkamp Verlag). You can register here to receive the link: forms.office.com/e/BGJnBZBZyHfor

I look forward to talking with Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman about their book Gleichzeit "a moving document of a friendship in the wake of October 7th" Suhrkamp Verlag

In just two days Durham University #Jewish #History #literatur

My contribution compares Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas' early works on St. Augustine, showing that their dialogue had a longstanding impact on Arendt's political thought.

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published today @glljournal 'The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defence of Pluralism' argues that ‘Jerusalem’ borrows from a surprising source: Herder's world history, which is entrenched in Protestant theology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gl…

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Join us this Thursday at 6pm for a special screening of 'Shalom Belfast' #DUglobalweek Durham University The Lindisfarne Centre, St. Aidan’s College. Free admission Shalom Belfast investigates the deep political divisions in Ireland through the lens of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Just out: My intro to 'Ages of Jewish Diaspora', a special issue I edited for Political Theology, with brilliant pieces by Magid, Boyarin, Wolfson, Schatz, Brody, Kaplan, Bielik-Robson, Lapidot, Sharvit & Dubow: tandfonline.com/eprint/HFX4T8U…

Excited to host Yosefa Raz for a discussion of her new book: durham.ac.uk/colleges-and-s… Thursday 8 May,18:00, The LRC Lecture Room St John's College

NEW PUBLICATION Herder, Arendt, and the Jews: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… [open access] ->