Religions often face the accusation that their patriarchal structures and traditions leave no space for emancipation.
How do religious Jewish and Muslim women respond to rules that bar them from holding a religious office, discount the value of their testimony in court, and deny them the right to divorce? Do their religious traditions allow for a more emancipatory vision of religious life?
A discussion with Susannah Heschel and Katajun Amirpur. The event is moderated by Hafssa El-Bouhamouchi of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording of the lecture Equal before God and Humans?; 3 May 2018; Jewish Museum Berlin 2018
Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel is a professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research includes Jewish scholarship on Islam. Her book On Being a Jewish Feminist was one of the very first volumes about Jewish feminist perspectives.
Katajun Amirpur
Katajun Amirpur is a professor of Islamic Studies and deputy director of the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg. Her publications lend new insight to the debates about the role of Islam in Germany.
Susannah Heschel and Katajun Amirpur; photos: Dartmouth College/private
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Lecture Series 2017/18: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights (6)
Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights
Our lecture series addresses controversial human rights topics arising in various walks of life and examines them from Jewish and Islamic perspectives. For every lecture, we invite two scholars who present their own positions and then engage in a dialogue.
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My God, Your God, No God
With Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University) and Anver Emon (University of Toronto)
Lecture Series
14 Jun 2018 (with video recording) -
Equal before God and Humans?
With Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) and Katajun Amirpur (University of Hamburg)
Lecture Series
3 May 2018 (with video recording) -
How Much Criticism Do Judaism and Islam Tolerate?
With Suzanne Last Stone (Yeshiva University) and Anshuman Mondal (University of East Anglia), in English and German
Lecture Series
12 Apr 2018 (with video recording) -
The Right to Life
With David Novak (University of Toronto) and Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University)
Lecture Series
8 Mar 2018 (with video recording) -
Human Rights Treaties and How They are Received
With Michael Galchinsky (Georgia State University) and Mashood Baderin (University of London)
Lecture Series
25 Jan 2018 (with video recording) -
Human Rights and Religions – A Contradiction?
With Shaheen Sardar Ali (University of Warwick) and Jill Jacobs (Rabbi and the Managing Director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights)
Lecture Series
23 Nov 2017 (with video recording)
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