Cosmopolitanism and the Jews

Prof. Sander L Gilman Chairman, LBI London  Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry Emory University A lecture organized by the Leo Baeck Institute.  Cosmopolitanism and the Jews The newest buzzword for globalization is cosmopolitanism. As with many such reuses of older concepts, cosmopolitanism has a complex history, specifically in the German-speaking lands. It is this history and its relationship to the history of German Jewry from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust that will be examined – in a global and perhaps even cosmopolitan manner. Wednesday, 2nd October 2013, 6.30 p.m. At the German Historical Institute