Seminar on new book on the War in Israel and Palestine and its impact on Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Rockets are fired toward Israel from the enclave of Gaza on October 7, 2023. Hamas militants in Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into Israeli territory in a surprise attack that became the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history.
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Seminar Details
Professor Carol Rittner and Professor John Roth will discuss their recently edited book:
Stress Test: The Israel-Hamas War and Christian-Jewish Relations
When: Wednesday, March 12th at 7 PM (Dublin time)
The Seminar is sponsored by the Irish Council of Christians and Jews and is part of Dublin City University’s Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Research Seminar series.
This talk will be delivered via ZOOM. Here are the details:
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Professor Carol Rittner
Carol Rittner is Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita and Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies Emerita at Stockton University, New Jersey. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of 24 books and numerous essays in various scholarly and educational journals about the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her more recent publications include The Holocaust and the Christian World (2019); Advancing Holocaust Studies (2021); and The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies (2022). Dr. Rittner is the Honorary President of WHISC – Women in the Holocaust International Study Center, Givat Haviva, Israel. She is the co-editor, with John K. Roth, of Stress Test: The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on Christian-Jewish Relations (2025).
Professor John Roth
John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Claremont McKenna College, where he taught for more than forty years and was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights). A Protestant Christian with Presbyterian and Methodist ties, he encourages Christian-Jewish relations and has written or edited more than sixty books, including The Failures of Ethics; Sources of Holocaust Insight; and Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (with Leonard Grob).
Cover of: Stress Test: The Israel-Hamas War and Christian-Jewish Relations
For Peter Admirand's open-access article, "Confessions of a Catholic Theologian: On Silence, the Shoah, and the War in Israel-Palestine", published in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, see here.