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Jews & Human Rights

James Loeffl
 er is the 2019 Belin Lecturer.

O

n March 12, the Frankel 
Center will welcome 
Professor James Loeffler to 
the University of Michigan to deliv-
er the 2019 David W. Belin Lecture 
in American Jewish Affairs. 
Loeffler’
s lecture, “Prisoners 
of Zion: American Jews, Human 
Rights, and the Israeli-Palestinian 
Conflict,” based on his recently pub-
lished Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews 
and Human Rights in 
the Twentieth Century, 
will explore how 
American Jews have 
become polarized over 
human rights issues 
related to both Israel 
and anti-Semitism. 
The lecture will begin at 7 p.m., 
following a 6:30 p.m. reception in 
Forum Hall of Palmer Commons, 
100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor.
The Belin lecture was established 
at U-M in 1991 through a gift from 
the late David W. Belin to provide 
an academic forum for the discus-
sion of contemporary Jewish life in 
the United States. Each lecture is 
subsequently published in the Belin 
Lecture Series.
“Global anti-Semitism has 
returned to the world in ways few 
ever anticipated after World War 
II,” Loeffler said. “For some in the 
Jewish world, the only solution is a 
renewed commitment to protecting 
human rights at home and abroad. 
For others in the Jewish world, 
the very phrase ‘
human rights’
 
has become a symbol of today’
s 
anti-Semitism, especially in the 
context of the Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict.”
Loeffler is the Jay Berkowitz 
Endowed Chair in Jewish History 
at the University of Virginia, where 
he teaches courses on Jewish and 
European history, legal history and 
the history of human rights. Rooted 

Cosmopolitans explains the histo-
ry of Jewish political activism in 
human rights through the stories of 
five Jewish activists, and shows how 
the idea of human rights has been 
intertwined with Jewish history in 
the last 70 years. It was named a 
“new and noteworthy” book by the 
New York Times.
The book began as a relatively 
narrow study of American Jewish 
political advocacy and legal diplo-
macy on behalf of Eastern European 
Jewry between the two world wars, 
and morphed over time into a glob-
al history of Jewish involvement in 
both the Zionist movement and the 
modern human rights movements 
of the 20th century. Loeffler’
s work 
weaves together stories across five 
continents, seven languages and 
eight decades.
Loeffler reasons that the people 
in his book would be shocked and 
disappointed by today’
s politically 
polarized climate and the amount 
of historical ignorance. Not because 
they, too, argued over the meaning 
of human rights, but because they 
understood there was a need to 
work together to try to reach prag-
matic global solutions.
Loeffler’
s lecture will help the 
audience understand that human 
rights are in crisis and will investi-
gate how we got to today’
s political 
climate. “That means viewing the 
intertwined pasts of human rights 
and Zionism not as political fables 
but as complex, real chapters in his-
tory,” he said. 
Human rights “grew out of the 
world of politics and particular-
ly the world of post-World War I 
Zionism,” he said. “Human rights 
were not the antidote to too much 
nationalism; they were an attempt 
to balance the nation-state with the 
new international order — for Jews 
and everyone else.” ■

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