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--> Jewish Question/Muslim Question: The Burden of Assimilation in
European Society, Past and Present
--> SEPHARDIC MEMORY AT THE CROSSROADS
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10/18/04 (Mon) 
 Jewish Question/Muslim Question: The Burden of Assimilation in European Society, Past and Present
 12:00PM until 2:00PM 
 In: 6275 Bunche Hall

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for 
  European and Eurasian Studies are pleased to present 

  SHMUEL TRIGANO (Université de Paris-X Nanterre) 

  as the first speaker in a year-long faculty-student seminar 
  series entitled "Jewish Question/Muslim Question: The 
  Burden of Assimilation in European Society, Past and 
  Present." 

  For centuries, the “Jewish Question” has epitomized the 
  recurrent and often difficult issue of Europe’s integration 
  of minority populations within its midst. It has summoned 
  forth the question of the Other for European Christians and 
  Jews alike: Are Jews, by virtue of their religious, 
  linguistic, physical, cultural, or (after the mid-19th 
  century) racial differences, able to be integrated into 
  their “host countries”? Is Jewish assimilation desirable or 
  even possible? And what might such assimilation “do” to 
  Europe? The history of the answers to the Jewish question 
  exposes the limitations and even the duplicity of the great 
  promise of the Enlightenment, which aimed to eradicate 
  religiously based prejudice. Over the past two centuries, 
  Jews have become the ultimate test of Europe’s willingness
  to assimilate and enfranchise those deemed unassimilable. 
  The results have been mixed, to say the least. Rather than 
  finding resolution, the Jewish question has continued to 
  vex Europe and its Jews, at times to devastating effect.
  Contemporary European society is again challenged by the 
  problem of assimilating resident minority populations often 
  deemed foreign to its character. But now the Other is not 
  European Jewry, but rather Muslim and Arab groups. Are 
  Muslims, by virtue of their religious, linguistic, 
  physical, cultural, or racial differences, able to be 
  integrated into their “host countries”? Is Muslim 
  assimilation desirable or even possible? And what might 
  such assimilation “do” to Europe? These questions are hotly 
  contested in the same countries – particularly France and 
  Germany – where the Jewish question once received its most 
  pointed articulation.

  The purpose of this seminar series, which we expect to 
  culminate in an international conference at UCLA, is to 
  explore the historical, cultural, political, and social 
  relationships between the Jewish question and the Muslim 
  question in Europe. To what extent are the questions of 
  citizenship, nationality, and tolerance bound up with 
  European recognition of its (Jewish, Muslim) “others”? In
  what ways is the Muslim question a replaying of the Jewish 
  question? Where are the essential differences to be found? 
  These questions must be asked against the backdrop of wider 
  social and political issues: European unification, Europe’s 
  distancing from American “hyper-puissance,” anti-Semitism 
  and other expressions of racism. Our seminar will seek to 
  place the contemporary debate over Muslims and Islam in the 
  context of historical debates over the place of Jews and 
  Judaism in European society. These questions are urgent and 
  timely not only because they reflect the contours of the 
  EU’s conception of inclusivity and unification but also 
  because they challenge the current political environment in 
  which Jews and Muslims are all too quickly reduced to 
  antagonistic political entities.
 -- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer at humnet.ucla.edu)
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 For more information, contact cjs at humnet.ucla.edu
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 This event is taken from the Center for Jewish Studies Calendar.
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10/18/04 (Mon) 
 SEPHARDIC MEMORY AT THE CROSSROADS
 7:30PM until 9:30PM 
 In: Royce 314

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the Maurice Amado 
  Chair in Sephardic Studies are pleased to present SEPHARDIC 
  MEMORY AT THE CROSSROADS,the Maurice Amado Lecture in 
  Sephardic Studies, to be given by SHMUEL TRIGANO.

  
  SHMUEL TRIGANO is Professor of Sociology at the Université 
  de Paris X-Nanterre and hoder of the Elia Benamozegh Chair 
  of Sephardic Studies (Livorno). He is founder and director 
  of both the Collège des Études Juives (College of Jewish 
  Studies) and Pardès, a European journal of Jewish studies 
  and culture. The author of numerous works in the fields of 
  political philosophy, spirituality and history, he has 
  written, among others, "L'Idéal démocratique. A l'épreuve 
  de la Shoa;" "Le Monothéisme est un Humanisme;" "La 
  Nouvelle Question Juive;" "Qu'est-ce que la religion?;" "La 
  Bible et l'Autre," and "La Séparation d'amour: Une éthique 
  d'alliance".

  The lecture will take place on Monday, October 18, 2004 at 
  7:30 PM in Royce Hall.

  
 -- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer at humnet.ucla.edu)
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 For more information, contact cjs at humnet.ucla.edu
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 This event is taken from the Center for Jewish Studies Calendar.
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