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lang=EN-US><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt">Jewish Identity, Historiography and
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face="Times New Roman">For more than two centuries historians, sociologists and
scholars of religion have debated the nature of Jewishness and Jewish history.
The confrontation of Jewish studies with women's studies and consecutively with
gender studies complicated matters even further. The prevailing model of
European Jewish history (/histories) has been and still is assimilation. In this
model the Jewishness of Jewish history depends on the degree of integration: the
greater the integration, the less Jewish the history. Can modern Jewish history
be divested of essentialism and equated with more than cultural loss? This
lecture will discuss old and new historiographical approaches to Jewish history,
their presumptions regarding Jewish identity and their implications for gender
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face="Times New Roman">Judith Frishman is professor at Leiden University's
Institute for Religious Studies where she occupies the first chair for Jewish
studies to be established in the Netherlands. She has served as a full professor
of rabbinic culture and history at Tilburg University (1998-2008) as well as
professor for Jewish-Christian relations in modernity at Leiden University
(1995-2005). Frishman's research concerns the transformation of Jewish culture
in the 19th century in Western Europe, with a focus on religious reform and
historiography. She is currently editing a volume on Rabbi Samuel Hirsch,
radical reform and philosopher.</FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
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habil. Andrea
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