April 9, 2024 – Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism (Marcin Wodziński )

22 March 2024

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We would like to invite you to a Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism on Tuesday, 09 April 2024, at 18:00. Marcin Wodziński (University of Wrocław) will talk about "The Maskilic Library Revisited: The Gaze from Poland".

The Maskilic Library Revisited: The Gaze from Poland

With new and growing research on the Jewish Enlightenment in Eastern Europe, we have learned, among other things, about the wide library of publications by the maskilim and the literary interrelations between authors, texts, and ideas. Yet the intellectual and social connections expressed by these books run much deeper and can be assessed through several other parameters. In this lecture, I will suggest a new look at the maskilic library in Poland as offered by several new approaches and/or resources. I will investigate maskilic book collections as well as maskilic books in collections belonging to non-Jewish representatives of the Polish Enlightenment. Furthermore, I will ask what we can learn from the growing database of subscriptions to Jewish books, including a significant segment of the maskilic publications and subscriptions by the maskilim. Within these wider questions, I will particularly explore the connection between the structure of the maskilic library and the ideas and social practices that were developed by the maskilim, including their engagement with the idea of scepticism.

Marcin Wodziński is a professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, where he heads the Taube Department of Jewish Studies.

Date
Tuesday, 09 April 2024, 18:00

Venue
MCAS
Please contact MCAS for further information and registration.

Poster
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Contact and registration
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