Jewish Cultural Pluralism | The New School

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Keynote speaker is Michael Walzer, editor of Dissent and The Jewish Political Tradition and author of Pluralism and Democracy, On Toleration, and Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. Moderated by Oz Frankel, author of Whats in a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel and States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | http://www.newschool.edu/nssr

Can there be cultural pluralism in a state where Jews are the majority? Is there more than one Jewish culture? This panel marks the launch of The New Schools Jewish Cultural Studies program by reflecting on the stakes involved in maintaining autonomous cultural traditions within political states and the ways in which Jewish thinkers have contemplated coexistence. Michael Walzer, Yirmiyahu Yovel, and other speakers discuss cultural pluralism in the divergent contexts of contemporary Israel, Enlightenment Europe, and the early-20th-century United States.

For more information, visit the Jewish Cultural Studies website at
http://www.newschool.edu/jewishculture

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Humanities and the graduate program in International Affairs.
Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) | http://gpia.info

* Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. 11/16/2009 6:30 p.m.

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• The New School
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• Oz Frankel
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• Jewish culture
• Jewish intellectual tradition

[drfoxcourt]

Neglected the Israelis ruling over Palestinians. Before that Ancient Judea ruled over other surrounding tribes. The speaker is arguing only from the periods of stateless judaism. When given a state, Jews ceased to be pluralist.

I'm not being anti-semitic in pointing this out. I am against religious-exceptionalism. The religion has poisoned the promise of D Ben-Gurion and the culture.

[Judel100]

First!