Jews and the Muslim World: Solving the Puzzle
To truly understand the current situation in the Middle East, it is crucial to understand the past and present relations between Muslims and Jews. This publication offers penetrating insights into the socio-political tensions between Muslims and Jews in the Middle East and in-depth explorations of how Muslims and Jews have related throughout history.
Jews and the Muslim World: Solving the Puzzle, both the original Colloquium conference and the subsequent publication, also addresses modern issues including the effects of Zionism, Muslim anti-Semitism, and even progressive Islam on the tensions between Muslims and Jews, and opens the door to new understandings and new possibilities in a very old relationship.
The Colloquium series gathers historians, scholars and activists together to explore specific topics of interest to the Jewish world. Each published volume in The Colloquium series is edited to offer selected proceedings of that event. Colloquium ’07 was held soon after the death of Rabbi Sherwin Wine, originator of the Colloquium program and its impresario. This Colloquium was dedicated to his memory.
You can read more about Colloquium ’07, including synopses of the major speakers, in the introduction to the printed volume Jews and the Muslim World: Solving the Puzzle (IISHJ/Milan Press, $9.95) which can be purchased online at Amazon.com or from the IISHJ (phone order or publication catalog). Jews and the Muslim World is now available as an e-book: Kindle, Nook, and more.
Panel Discussion
Amir Hussain
Colloquium Speakers at Keynote
Video for each Colloquium presentation and the following panel discussion is now available on the IISHJ YouTube channel. Click here to see the complete playlist, or on each title for that specific video.
Interview
An interview with Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean for North America of the IISHJ and facilitator of Colloquium ’07.
Fawaz Gerges – The Broken Middle East
Then-senior analyst and regular commentator for ABC Television News and Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, author of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy.
Jacob Lassner – Islam: Then and Now
Professor of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, co-author of Jews and Muslims in Arab Lands: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined (2007). To see the panel’s response to this presentation, click here.
Jane Gerber, “Jews in the Muslim World”
Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, author of The Jews of Spain (1992). To see the panel’s response to this presentation, click here.
Derek Penslar, “Zionism and the Muslim World”
Director of the University of Toronto’s Jewish Studies program and expert on the history of modern European Jewry, Zionism and the state of Israel. Author of Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe and Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006). To see the panel’s response to this presentation, click here.
Yehuda Bauer – Antisemitism and the Muslim World
Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University, author of many works including Rethinking the Holocaust (2001). To see the panel’s response to this presentation, click here.
Amir Hussain – What Can Be Done? The Muslim Response
Then-Associate Professor in Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, author of Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God (2006). To see the panel’s response to this presentation, click here.
Yehuda Bauer – What Can Be Done? A Jewish Response
Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University, author of many works including Rethinking the Holocaust (2001).
