I am attending this conference today, and will update posts at intervals
IJS/JHSE Symposium
in honour of
Professor David Ruderman,
scholar-in-residence of the Jewish Historical Society of England
9.55am Welcome by Piet van Boxel, President, Jewish Historical Society of England
Welcome given by Philip Alexander
Martin GIlbert
David Cesarani gave a hesped (eulogy) on the life and work of Martin Gilbert, historian of Churchill and the Holocaust, who died on February 3rd 2015
10.00am David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania):
The Revival of the Jewish-Christian Debate in 19th century Europe:
The Evangelical Missionary Alexander McCaul and his Jewish Interlocutors
This was a fascinating study of McCaul’s career, scholarship, motives and methods, and the response of his Jewish interlocutors, most of the Reform Jews who had a similar reservation about the authority of the Talmud that McCaul examined in The Old Paths
10.45am Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of…
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