#  Judaism's Embrace of Islam: An Historical Inquiry into the Role of Islam in Modern Jewish Thought 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 3, 2013** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present the 2013 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer**

   ![Susannah Heschel](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/heschel-300px_0.jpg?itok=tiSj-fOZ) 

 

**Susannah Heschel**  
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College [Read Susannah Heschel's lecture](/file_url/1663)

 Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Professorship in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of antisemitism. Her numerous publications include *Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus* (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and *The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany* (Princeton University Press).

 Currently she is writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam from the 1830s to the 1930s. For that project, she received a Scholar’s Grant in Islamic Studies from the Carnegie Foundation, and was given a fellowship in 2011-12 to the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, an institute for advanced study.

 *Professor Heschel's lecture will ultimately be available in published form. Meanwhile, this recently-published article of hers has significant overlap with her oral presentation:* ["German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism," Susannah Heschel, New German Critique (2012) 39(3 117): 91-107](http://ngc.dukejournals.org/content/39/3_117/91.abstract).

 To read more about Hilda B. Silverman, click [here](/event-series/silverman).

 **Contact:** [Sara Roy](mailto:sroy@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ Religion ](/research-field/religion)
- [ Israel ](/research-region/israel)
- [ Palestinian Territories ](/research-region/palestinian-territories)
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