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Afternoon Seminar with James Loeffler
September 19 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University
Searching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism
How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, I discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s creation of the legal concept of genocide in interwar Polish Jewish culture.
James Loeffler is Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University. His writings include two award-winning books, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire. He is currently writing a book about antisemitism and the First Amendment in postwar America.
Cosponsored by UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies; Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; History Department; and Honors College
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