Open lecture by Lena Roos

Warmly welcome to the open lecture by Prof. Lena Roos (Södertörn University) on

Diaspora and Zionism, Longing and Belonging.
20th Century Rabbinic Reflection on Homelands and Nationalism

on 10th November at 11:00-12:15 in Auditorium Theologicum, Annexet, Piispankatu 16.

In this lecture Prof. Lena Roos will delve into the thinking of two Swedish Rabbis, Gottlieb Klein (1852-1914) and Marcus Ehrenpreis (1869-1951). She will discuss how they both agree and disagree on the value of Zionism and diaspora, and what they may have to say on these matters to a contemporary reader.

Bio

Lena Roos is professor of the Study of Religions at Södertörn University. The lecture is based on her part of the research project Experimenting with Traditions. The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region, a collaboration between scholars in the Study of Religions and Philosophy, financed by the Baltic Sea Foundation.