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Several concepts that recur in the historiography and the literature on Late Modern Judaism deal with emotions. Trauma and guilt, for example, appear quite often; the possibility of reconciliation and forgiveness; grief; coping; repentance; even revenge is currently raised and discussed. This seminar seeks to highlight a relatively understudied emotional category in Jewish historiography: rage. Drawing from legal, historiographical, literary and theological sources, this seminar unpacks what Jewish rage may mean, when taking the tension between the ill-reputed and often repressed concept of rage on the one hand, and the specific fate and the history of European Jewry, on the other hand.
The seminar is a collaboration between Karma Ben Johanan, a historian of Jewish-Christian relations, and Reut Yael Paz, an international legal scholar who specializes in antisemitism from the Law Faculty of the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. |
