The Jewishness of Key Intellectuals- Irwin Wall

THE JEWISHNESS OF KEY INTELLECTUALSAND CULTURAL FIGURES OF OUR TIMES

 

Tue Dec 3, Wed Dec 18, Thu Jan 2, Wed Jan 15

7:00pm

Historian Irwin Wall will look at the"Jewishness" of Karl Marx, Signumnd Freud, Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka.  All four were born ethnically Jewish and culturally German. To What extent did they identify as Jews what role did their Jewish origins play in determining  the course of their careers, and to what extent did their understanding of Jews and Jewishness influence their work?

 

$15.00 for all 4 sessions,

 congregants $10.00