Wayne State University

CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES*

Presents
A Conference on

JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND THE MODERN AGE

MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM
AND THE MODERN JEW
Session I

JEWS AND THE MODERN
LITERARY MILIEU
Session II

Sunday, November 1
2:30-5:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple Rd.
West Bloomfield
"Jewish Responses to the Holocaust"
Steven Katz, Cornell University
"Anti-Semites and Jews in
Contemporary German Culture:
Gunter Grass and Jurek Becker"
Sander L. Gilman, Cornell University
Response
Howard Shevrin, University of Michigan

Monday, November 2
9:30 a.m.-12 noon
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Wayne State University
"The Rhetoric of Anti-Semitism
in Post-World War II
American Literature"
Guy Stern, Wayne State University
"The New York Literary Scene:
Post-War Years"
Alexander Bloom, Wheaton College
Response

SCHOLARLY AND RELIGIOUS
RESPONSES TO MODERNITY

SUMMARY SESSION

Session III

Session IV

Monday, November 2 _
2:30-5:30 p.m
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Wayne State University
"The Rise and Growth of Jewish
Scholarship in Modern Times"
Isaac Barzilay, Columbia University
"Where Have the Rabbis Gone:
An Arcane Inquiry into Jews, Islamic
Studies, and the Sociology of Knowledge"
Jacob Lassner, Harvard University
Wayne State University
Response

Tuesday, November 3
10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Wayne State University
"The Origins of Jewish Modernity"
Todd Endelman, University of Michigan
Response
Participants and Audience

`The Center is a cooperative effort of the University and the United Jewish Charities of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit.

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