Seminarie 'Modern European Culture and the Jews'
Driedelig seminarie 'Modern European Culture and the Jews'
Prof. dr. em. Steven E. Aschheim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
23, 24 en 26 oktober 2017
Telkens van 16.00 u tot 18.00 u
Annexe-gebouw Stadscampus Universiteit Antwerpen
Lange Winkelstraat 9 - 2000 Antwerpen
Deelname aan dit drieledig seminarie is gratis.
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In this seminar we will examine some of the many intersections between European culture and the modern Jewish experience. It will seek to analyse some of the complex and creative ways in which Jews sought to internalise, appropriate and re-negotiate aspects of European culture. It will also trace the multiple ways in which Jews were represented and the functions that these portrayals and stereotypes played within the culture. We will examine some of these links as manifested in Karl Marx’s On the Jewish Question, Richard Wagner’s Judaism in Music, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and Franz Kafka’s Letter to his Father. Given time we will also analyse the fateful ways these trends came together in the Viennese fin-de-siècle.