Jewish Emancipation
Link to Jewish Emancipation lecture
On November 16, 2021, David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University joined The Jewish Studies Program for a lecture on his book, Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries.
On November 16, 2021, David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University joined The Jewish Studies Program for a lecture on his book, Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries.
Professor Sorkin discussed the quest for equal civil and political rights, known as “Jewish emancipation,” has been complex, ambiguous, and interminable. It has been at the heart of Jewish history for the past five centuries. Indeed, Jewish emancipation is virtually synonymous with the Jews’ experience of the modern world.
This lecture explored the centrality of the emancipation process across Europe, the United States and the Ottoman Empire. It focused on the Jews’ relationship to the modern state in the diaspora as well as in the State of Israel.