Gastvortrag
Karma Ben Johanan - "A Restless Triad: What's Between Jews, Christians, and Antisemites"
A new chapter in Jewish–Christian relations opened in the second half of the twentieth century when the Second Vatican Council exonerated Jews from the accusation of deicide and declared that the Jewish people had never been rejected by God. In a few carefully phrased statements, two millennia of deep hostility were swept into the trash heap of history.
Karma Ben Johanan pulls back the veil of interfaith dialogue to reveal how Orthodox rabbis and Catholic leaders spoke about each other when outsiders were not in the room.
Prof. Dr. Karma Ben Johanan teaches in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before coming to Jerusalem, she served as the chair of Jewish-Christian relations at the Department of Theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the late-modern intellectual history of religion, on Jewish-Christian relations, secularization and antisemitim. She was awarded the Dan David Prize for the Study of the Past in 2023. Her book, Jacob's Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), was awarded the Polonsky Prize, the Catholic Media Association Award, and the Shazar prize, and was a finalist of the Jewish National Book Award. Ben Johanan is currently leading an ERC project exploring the Christian repudiation of antisemitism in Europe after WWII, and the tension between religious and non-religious perceptions of antisemitism.
This public lecture will be given as part of the Blockseminar Jews and Protestants in Germany form the 19th Century to the Present.
The lecture will be held in English. No registration is required.
Autor: Nimrod Baratz
