metro
Scholar To Focus On
Conversion In Europe
The Cohn-Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies at Wayne State
University is sponsoring a lec-
ture by Todd Endelman, William
Haber Professor Emeritus of
Modern Jewish History at the
University of Michigan, at noon
Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Faculty
Administration Building, Room
2339.
The talk, co-
sponsored by the
WSU Humanities
Center, is titled
"Was Conversion
an Effective
Strategy for
Integration
Todd
into European
Endelman
Society?"
Endelman, a
leading expert on Anglo-Jewish
history, has spent decades
exploring the nuances of Jewish
assimilation and the Jewishness of
Jewish converts to Christianity in
Europe and America.
In works such as Jewish
Apostasy in the Modern World and
Disraeli's Jewishness, Endelman
has described how Jewish assimi-
lation was not an either/or propo-
sition, but a complex navigation
between the Jewish and non-
Jewish worlds.
Rather than dismiss Jewish
converts to Christianity as being
devoid of any sense of Jewish
identity, Endelman has shown
that, even after conversion,
Jewish apostates often remained
connected to their families and
Jewish friends, and even to
the Jewish community. Thus,
Endelman argues, Jewish converts
are more accurately understood as
a radical form of Jewish assimila-
tion.
Endelman's talk is the first of
the Center's 2014-2015 series of
monthly colloquia. Future lec-
tures in this series include Saeed
Khan (WSU) talking about con-
flict in the Middle East, Alexis
Zimberg speaking about Putin
and Russian Jewry, Michael
Scrivner (WSU) speaking on
Messianic imagery in English
literature, and Todd Hasak-Lowy
speaking about the recent works
of Israeli writer David Grossman.
The Sept. 18 talk is free and
open to the public. For details,
contact the Cohn-Haddow Center
at (313) 577-2679 or by email at
cohnhaddowcenter@wayne.edu or
go to http://judaicstudies.wayne.
edu .
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