Nathaniel Duetsch, Co-Director of Center for Jewish Studies, to Lecture at W&L
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| Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also co-director of the Center for Jewish Studies, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Sept. 22, at 5 p.m. in Sydney Lewis Hall, classroom B.
The title of his lecture is â âThe New is Forbidden by the Torahâ: Minhag and the Radical Roots of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.â The talk will be followed by a dialogue on âJewish and Muslim Legal Fundamentalismsâ with Deutsch and Joel A. Blecher, assistant professor of religion at W&L, followed by a Q&A period. The talk is free and open to the public.
Deutschâs lecture is co-sponsored by the Religion Departmentâs Stanford L. Schewel Fund, the Institute of Transnational Law, the History Department, the Politics Department and Washington and Lee University School of Law, Office of the Dean.
Deutsch, also the director of the Institute for Humanities Research, is the author of six books, including âThe Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlementâ (2011), for which he received the 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies; âInventing Americaâs âWorstâ Family; Eugenics, Islam and the Fall of the Rise of The Tribe of Ishmaelâ (2009); and âThe Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her Worldâ (2003).
A specialist in Judaism, Gnosticism and early Christianity, Deutsch received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and received an honorable mention for the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians for Best Book in Social and/or Intellectual History.
Deutschâs areas of expertise are Jewish history, Hasidism, African American Islam and the history of eugenics in the United States.
He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. | | | |
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