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Home / Newsroom / Dr. Susannah Heschel presents "The Politics of Blood, Milk, & the Kiss in Judaism and Christianity"
WHO: 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. WHAT: 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. WHERE: Center for Science and Technology / Donahue Auditorium John Carroll University 20700 North Park Boulevard University Heights, OH 44118 WHEN: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:30-7 p.m CONTACT: Dr. Doris Donnelly Director of the Cardinal Suenens Center 216.397.4991 www.jcu.edu/suenens