Tuesday 9 November 2021 2:15pm to 3:15pm
Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity
About
Speaker: Professor Judith Frishman
Part of the Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations series.
About the speaker
Judith Frishman is Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies at Leiden University where she headed the programmes of the Leiden Centre for the Study of Religion in 2015-2019. She was a member of the advisory board of the project "Dynamics of Ritual Practices in Judaism in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present" at the Max Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt between 2015-2020 and was awarded fellowships there in the autumn of 2018 and 2019. She is a Visiting Scholar at St John's College during 2021-2022 and working closely with Cambridge Interfaith Programme.
This talk will explore an aspect of her current research which focuses on the transnational development of Reform Judaism in the nineteenth century, based on hitherto unpublished rabbinic correspondence.
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Dr Giles Waller