David Freidenreich

What do Bob Marley, Nebuchadnezzar II, and the ancient Israelites of the Hebrew Bible have in common? In the third millennium BCE, Sargon of Akkad created the world's first empire and located his capital city on the Euphrates in what is now Iraq. Since his time, Babylonia has been a magnet for warriors, prophets, poets, […]

In a world fractured by unjust relations among humans, in a world in which humans have been wreaking global climate destruction, what kinds of ways of being human might make it possible for humans to have a future at all? And, are there better ways of imagining and being human? In this talk, Denise Buell, […]

In this talk, David Dalin, author of Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court from Brandeis to Kagan: Their Lives and Legacies, will discuss Louis D. Brandeis’s Jewish identity, views on Zionism, and leadership of the American Zionist movement. Brandeis’s distinction of having been the first Jewish Supreme Court justice is in some ways ironic because his upbringing was […]

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has played an important role in the Jewish-American imagination. But the Jewish state has come to mean very different things to different segments of the American-Jewish community. Perhaps not surprisingly, many 20th-century Jewish-American writers steered clear of the topic, focusing instead on the Holocaust or on Jewish life in […]