Göran Rosenberg talks about his new book "Another Zionism, Another Judaism. The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis"

Berlin, 27 Feb 2025, 19.00 - 20.30

Another Zionism, Another Judaism. The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis

Elad Lapidot (Berlin/Lille) with Göran Rosenberg (Stockholm) and Susan Neiman (Berlin)

Born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1869, Marcus Ehrenpreis was the secretary of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, to become the chief rabbi of Sweden through the Nazi era. In his new book, the award-winning Swedish Jewish writer and public intellectual Göran Rosenberg (A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz) tells about Ehrenpreis’s Zionism, which was not about making Jews a nation like all others, but creating a spiritual center for the renaissance of Jewish life “amidst the nations.” 

Elad Lapidot will talk with Rosenberg and with the Berlin-based philosopher and public intellectual Susan Neiman about this story of boundless hope, unrequited love, and annihilated possibilities. Another Zionism, Another Judaism evokes a diasporic Jewish existence that would be harshly judged in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. 

Katholische Akademie Berlin
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10115 Berlin

For more information: The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora – Another Zionism, Another Judaism. The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis