Oct 12, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Michael Brenner, Chair of
Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich in
Germany
Location: Georgetown University; Washington,
DC
Professor Michael Brenner examines in depth how modern Jewish
historians have interpreted Jewish history, beginning with
nineteenth-century Germany. History proved to be a uniquely
powerful weapon for modern Jewish scholars during a period when
they had no nation or army to fight for their ideological and
political objectives, whether the goal was Jewish emancipation,
diasporic autonomy or the creation of a Jewish state.