TODAY, November 4, please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a lecture by

Enzo Traverso (Winokur Professor of the Humanities, History, Romance Studies, and Jewish Studies, Cornell University)

The “Jewish Question”: History of a Marxist Debate

5:00 PM, Swift 208. Please note the unusual day and location of the event.

Enzo Traverso is an historian of modern and contemporary Europe. His research focuses on the intellectual history and the political ideas of the twentieth century. His publications, all translated in several languages, include more than a dozen books, including The Jews and Germany: From the “Judeo-German Symbiosis” to the Memory of Auschwitz (Nebraska, 1995); Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz (Pluto, 1999); The Origins of Nazi Violence (New Press, 2003); Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945 (Verso, 2016); The End of Jewish Modernity (Pluto, 2016); Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (Columbia, 2017); The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (Brill, 2018); and most recently The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right (Verso, 2019).