BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250905T0154Z-1757037267.8169-EO-720513-1@10.73.0.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260412T143807Z CREATED:20250903T172732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T144300Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T131500 SUMMARY: The Difference Between Freedom and Liberation: War\, Violence and the State in Tamares\, Teitelbaum & Kook with Shaul Magid DESCRIPTION: In this talk Magid briefly explores the subject of violence an d war through the work of three rabbinic thinkers in the twentieth century: Aaron Shmuel Tamares\, Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar\, and Abraham Isaac Kook. All three have the concept of nationalism in their sights\, understanding\ , as other scholars have argued\, that nationalism contains the hazard\, [… ] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this talk Magid briefly explores the su bject of violence and war through the work of three rabbinic thinkers in th e twentieth century: Aaron Shmuel Tamares\, Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar\, and Abraham Isaac Kook. All three have the concept of nationalism in their sig hts\, understanding\, as other scholars have argued\, that nationalism cont ains the hazard\, even inevitability\, of violence\, both in its constructi on and in its maintenance. They each examine violence and war through the l ens of nationalism\, the nation-state\, and Zionism. In each case we find d ifferent\, yet also overlapping\, interpretations of violence refracted thr ough the classical Jewish tradition coupled with the challenges of modern s tatecraft.
Shaul Magid is Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Reside nce at Harvard Divinity School. Magid’s research bridges centuries and disc iplines\, exploring topics from sixteenth-century Kabbalistic mysticism and Hasidism\, including its spiritual ties to Christianity\, to contemporary American Judaism\, Jewish identity\, race\, and critical theory. His ground breaking work engages a broad spectrum of readers\, combining deep textual analysis with theoretical sophistication. Magid is the author of eight book s and more than 75 scholarly articles. He has also written over 150 essays\ , offering insight into the cultural\, political\, and spiritual dimensions of modern Jewish life. Magid is also a Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Stud ies at Dartmouth College.

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