Cabot Park Village Black History Lecture Series: Prof. Susannah Heschel, Mar. 12

Susannah Heschel — the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Jewish Studies
Program at Dartmouth College — will speak in Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture Series on March 12 at 1PM in the Community Room of Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville).

Prof. Heschel’s scholarship focuses on the history of Jewish and Protestant religious thought in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, and she has brought post-colonial theory and feminist theory to her analysis. She is a prolific author, and has also edited several volumes including Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity : Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of five honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland.

Professor Heschel will convene a discussion titled, Civil Rights: America’s Unfinished Revolution. Her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was a major influence in her life and work, having himself been on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.