Emancipation, Toleration and Tradition: Reading Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem (1783) in Toronto Today

How do ideas from 1783 still shape Jewish life in Toronto today?

Join us as Professor Michael Rosenthal, the Grafstein Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto, brings Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem into conversation with our modern reality. Exploring themes of emancipation, toleration, and the balance between tradition and change, this lecture offers a compelling lens on what it means to live as a Jewish community in a democratic society like Canada.

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The Senator Jerahmiel and Carole z”l Grafstein Lecture

Michael A. Rosenthal holds the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy, with appointments in both the Department of Philosophy and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Prior to joining the department, he was professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle.