 Susannah Heschel (Photo by Joseph Mehling ’69)
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On Nov. 22, an interview with Susannah
Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, is scheduled be posted
to the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum’s free podcast series, “Voices on Antisemitism.”
Heschel, known for her work in Jewish and feminist studies, is the author of
numerous publications, including her book, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish
Jesus, and her latest, The Aryan Jesus: Christians, Nazis and the
Bible, due out Nov. 8. Her interview will focus on the legacy of her
father’s friendship with Martin Luther King and on her own scholarly work on
Christian theologians in Germany. Heschel’s father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, is
considered by many to have been one of the foremost Jewish theologians of the
20th century.
“Voices on Antisemitism" was developed by the museum as a forum for
perspectives on how antisemitism and hatred influence the world. A new program
is posted every other week. Among the topics she discusses in her podcast,
Heschel touches on the power of negative stereotypes. “We have to understand
that certain images stand in a long historical tradition of antisemitic
stereotypes about Jews,” she says, “and therefore they have a power derived
from that long history.”
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