Parité, Politics, and Judaism: The Politics of Equality in Non-Consistorial French Synagogues
How has gender been politicized in French Judaism? Béatrice de Gasquet (Université Paris-Diderot) explored this question in the third BUJS Forum of Fall 2016 on October 6. Modern day France upholds a secular model of French national identity, and most discussion of gender and religion revolves around criticizing Islam for failing to conform to this […]
Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #2
Dawn, published in 1961, is Elie Wiesel’s second book. The work explores an ethical question he imagines that he might have faced under different circumstances. For this purpose, he creates a protagonist named Elisha, a young Holocaust survivor who goes to the British Mandate of Palestine in order to fight for “the Movement,” which is […]
Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #1
We begin our retrospective with Night, Elie Wiesel’s first and most widely read work. This harrowing account of his experience as a fifteen-year-old in the Nazi death camps became a foundational work of Holocaust literature. It was first written in Yiddish (in a longer form as Un di Velt Hot Geshvign, or and the world […]