What are Jewish-Christian relations?
Judaism in Five Minutes - Sarah Imhoff
Jessica Cooperman [+]
University of Connecticut
Jessica Cooperman is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her book, Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism (NYU Press, 2018), received an honorable mention for the Saul Viener Prize in American Jewish History. Her current project explores Passover celebrations as sites for defining Jewish identity and relationships between Jews and Christians. Her next project will examine projects for promoting interfaith relations after World War II. Cooperman is co-editor of the journal American Jewish History.
Description
In part as a response to the horrors of Holocaust, the twentieth century witnessed a radical transformation in relations between Jews and Christians. After centuries of hostility, Jews and Christians today often see themselves as spiritual and political partners.