Few people were more influential in changing the relations between the Catholic Church and Jews than the historian and Holocaust survivor Jules Isaac. This panel discusses the remarkable life of Jules Isaac, a historian, teacher, and activist, who after WWI worked toward Franco-German reconciliation, and after WWII, despite the deportation and murder of his wife Laure and his daughter Juliette in Auschwitz, found the courage to open a dialogue with the Christian world and work toward reconciliation.
Panelists:
Emmanuel Chouraqui grew up and lived for the first 30 years of his life in Jerusalem before he moved to Paris. In Paris he started to direct and produce documentary films. He produced and directed around 50 films on diverse subjects. After his father, André Chouraqui, passed away in July 2007, he directed a film about him: "André Chouraqui - the writing of the Writings" about the life, the work, and the message of the only man in the world (so far) to have translated the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an into French. Since then, Emmanuel is dedicated to implementing the message of his father, a message of universal peace. He is working closely with interfaith organizations in France and around the world and develops films on these subjects.
Claire Maligot is a scholar of modern history, focusing on Jewish Christian relations in the 20th century. She is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation titled, “Non-Christians in Rome? Interfaith relations from WWII to the Vatican II Era: Between Theology, Activism and Diplomacy (1945-
1973),” in which she explores the role of Jewish and Muslim intellectuals and activists seeking to influence the changes within the Catholic church. Claire was a visiting scholar in Rome’s La Sapienza, Collegio Superiore in Bologna, and the Freie Universitat in Berlin. She has published articles in academic journals in French, English, and Italian, most recently, she has contributed an introduction to a new Italian edition of Jules Isaac’s Jesus and Israel, in which she reassesses Isaac’s approach and struggle against Christian antisemitism and places him in an international network of scholars and activists committed to pressure Church institutions to revise their teachings about Jews in the aftermath of the Shoah.
Norman C. Tobias holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto. His book Jewish Conscience of the Church: Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council, was published in English in 2017, in French as La Conscience juive de l’Eglise: Jules Isaac et le Concile Vatican II in 2018 (Paris: Editions Salvator), and last year in Italian as La Coscienza ebraica della chiesa: Jules Isaac e il concilio Vaticano II (Bologna: Marietti1820, 2023). A Polish edition is currently in preparation with Austeria Publishing House. Dr. Tobias has also another career. He is a Toronto-based tax practitioner specializing in private wealth and intermediary taxation and an emeritus adjunct professor of law, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2017, he published Taxation of Corporations, Partnerships and Trusts, (5th edition, Thomson Reuters, 2017).
Moderators:
Matthieu Langlois, Ph.D. student at Fordham University
Magda Teter, Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University
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2 фев 2024
