Scholar in Residence Sunday Morning Lecture
Saturday, November 16, 2024 • 15 Cheshvan 5785
9:30 AM - 12:00 PMBeth Am Synagogue
Don’t miss Dr. Weininger’s final lecture, Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the 21st Century.
Historically, the Jewish diaspora has been presented as the binary opposite to Jewish homeland and the state of Israel. This rhetorical opposition has been made more explicit in the year since the October 7 attacks and Israel’s war with Hamas. But a growing body of work by contemporary Israeli writers and artists that Weininger calls “diaspora Israeli culture” reconsiders this binary opposition between homeland and diaspora, taking into account the existence of the state of Israel and its implications for diaspora Jewish identity as well as the implications for Zionism of diasporic conceptions of Israel. Drawing from her new book, this talk will consider how this dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
*Join us for bagels and coffee from 9:30 AM before this lecture.
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