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SUMMARY: The Jewish Problem\, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Lib
 eralism
DESCRIPTION: *Tuesday\, September16\, 2025* 4-8pm Pound Hall 101 2025 marks
  the 110th anniversary of Louis Brandeis’s famous essay “The Jewish Problem
  – How to Solve It” (attached) Taking as his point of departure the persist
 ence of antisemitism in the twentieth-century world\, Brandeis laid out a d
 iagnosis of liberalism’s challenges and a positive vision for its future. H
 is […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><strong>*Tuesday\, September16\, 2025*<br 
 />4-8pm<br />Pound Hall 101<br /></strong></p><p>2025 marks the 110<sup>th<
 /sup> anniversary of Louis Brandeis’s famous essay “The Jewish Problem – Ho
 w to Solve It” (attached)</p><p>Taking as his point of departure the persis
 tence of antisemitism in the twentieth-century world\, Brandeis laid out a 
 diagnosis of liberalism’s challenges and a positive vision for its future. 
 His essay also marked a major statement on liberal Zionism and the rational
 e for American Jewish commitment to reconciling Jewish nationalism and Amer
 ican democracy. A century later\, we revisit this text and the broader Bran
 deisian legacy to think about the contemporary questions of liberalism and 
 Zionism\, law and economics\, and citizenship and group rights in American 
 law.</p><p>Symposium Chairs:<br /><strong>Noah Feldman\, Felix Frankfurter 
 Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School<br />James Loeffler\, Felix Posen Pro
 fessor of Modern Jewish History\, Johns Hopkins University</strong></p><p><
 strong>4pm<br /></strong>Welcome</p><p><a href="https://history.jhu.edu/dir
 ectory/james-loeffler/"> James Loeffler</a> and <a href="https://hls.harvar
 d.edu/faculty/noah-r-feldman/">Noah Feldman</a></p><p><strong>4:15 – 5:30pm
 <br /></strong><a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/william-e-forbath/">
 William Forbath</a><br />“Brandeis and his Jewish Socialist Critics & Colla
 borators on Zionism & Industrial Democracy”</p><p><a href="https://law.stan
 ford.edu/amalia-d-kessler/">Amalia Kessler </a><br />“Arbitration and the J
 ewish Question\, 1900-1950”</p><p><a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/fa
 culty/simon/">Simon Rabinovitch </a><br />Moderator</p><p><strong>5:30-6:30
 pm<br /></strong><a href="https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/shaul-magid">S
 haul Magid </a><br />“Jewish Nationality\, Nationhood\, and Diaspora Nation
 alism: Reading Mordecai Kaplan and Daniel Boyarin through Louis Brandeis”</
 p><p><a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/laura-weinrib/">Laura Weinrib
 </a><br />“Free Speech\, Group Rights\, and Jewish Identity”</p><p><a href=
 "https://www.lindakinstler.com/about">Linda Kinstler</a><br />moderator</p>
 <p><strong>7-8pm</strong></p><p>Keynote:<br />“Brandeis’s Jewish Question(s
 ): Global Liberalism Reconsidered”<br /><strong>James Loeffler</strong><br 
 />Response: <strong>Noah Feldman</strong><br /><a href="https://ericnelson.
 scholars.harvard.edu/">Eric Nelson</a><br />Moderator</p><p>in person and o
 n zoom: <a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96207758290">ZOOM LINK</a></p><p
 ><em>(Thank you to Nutter\, McClennen & Fish\, LLP for their support)</em><
 /p>
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