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The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel
November 9, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeThe Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel
with Emma Polyakov, Assistant Professor, Religious and Theological Studies, Merrimack College
In person event, no registration required.
November 9, 2021, 5:30pm, Dey Hall, Toy Lounge [fourth floor]. Direction/Parking.
In the wake of the Holocaust, a religious phenomenon arose in Israel fueled by survivors who had converted to Catholicism as well as by Catholics determined to address the anti-Judaism inherent in their religious tradition. This talk examines this “Judeocentric Catholicism” as a case study in Catholic perceptions of Jews, Judaism, and the state of Israel.
Emma Polyakov is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Merrimack College. She is the author of The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel (Penn State University Press, 2020); Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy (Liturgical Press, 2015); and the editor of Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other (Brill-Rodopi, 2018). She has published articles in Israel Studies, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, CrossCurrents, and others. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Idea of the Holy Land: Memory, Imagination, and Constructions of Sacred Space.
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