FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 1, 2007
www.jcu.edu
Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
                 216.397.1958
                     tstrong@jcu.edu

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John Carroll University’s Cardinal Suenens Center presents a lecture by:

Dr. Susannah Heschel
“The Politics of Blood, Milk & the Kiss in Judaism and Christianity”

Thursday, November 15, 2007
            5:30-7 p.m.
Dolan Center for Science and Technology / Donahue Auditorium
This event is free to attend and open to the public

Susannah Heschelis the Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, and her numerous publications include a prize-winning  monograph, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and a forthcoming book, The Aryan Jesus:  Christians, Nazis and the Bible (Princeton University Press).  Professor Heschel has also written extensively on feminist  issues related to Jewish Studies and edited a classic collection, On Being a Jewish Feminist, first published in 1983. 
This event is sponsored by the Cardinal Suenens Center and the Division of Student Affairs at John Carroll University.

This lecture focuses on a fascinating and original study: Susannah Heschel proposes that religious power is expressed through blood (e.g., martyrdom, circumcision), the kiss (sexuality and mysticism) and milk (the body). Her conviction is that the gendered politics of blood, milk and the kiss configure the self-understanding of Judaism and Jews (male and female), and, to a lesser extent, relations with Christianity.

Dr. Doris Donnelly
Director of the Cardinal Suenens Center
216.397.4991
www.jcu.edu/suenens

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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