Tuesday, 11/12: Joel Swanson on the psychopathologization of the Wandering Jew in fin-de-siècle France

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop on Tuesday, November 12 for a presentation by

Joel Swanson (PhD student, History of Judaism, University of Chicago Divinity School)

“A Prototype of the Psychopathic Israelite”: The Psychopathologization of the Wandering Jew in the Fin de Siècle

with a response by Mendel Kranz (PhD student, Philosophy of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School)

Tuesday, November 12, 5:00 PM in Swift 200

The paper should be read in advance of the workshop. It will be posted on this blog shortly, and the password will be emailed to the workshop’s listserv.

Image: The cover of an undated edition of Eugène Sue’s 1844-1845 novel Le Juif errant. Courtesy of abebooks.com.