Wrestling with the Angel: Toward a Jewish Understanding of the Nazi Assault on the Name of God and on Jewish Names

Apr 14 2008 - 8:00pm McDonnell Hall, Room 162

Debra M. Schwartz at jines@wustl.edu or (314) 935-8567

Prof. Patterson will show that in the Nazi assault on the Name of God there is also an assault on the name--that is, on the very identity--of the individual Jew. This assault has implications for Jewish thinking about Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era.
This talk is co-sponsored by the programs in Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies and Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. It is free and open to the public.