Download Thursday, May 12th

Neighboring Faiths:
Christianity, Islam, Judaism
by Prof. David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
Introducer: Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Literature
Katzin Chair in Jewish Civilization
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long
course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another.
How have Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived with and thought about one another in the past, and what
can that past tell us about how they do so today?
Thursday, May 12th
5:30pm, UCSD Faculty Club
A talk in memory of Jerome & Miriam Katzin
About the Speaker
David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the Committee on Social Thought,
the Department of History, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, as well as Dean
of the Social Sciences Division. His books include Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in
the Middle Ages (1996), Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013); Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam,
and Judaism, Medieval and Modern (2014), and Aesthetic Theology and its Enemies: Judaism in Christian
Painting, Poetry, and Politics (2015).
Light dinner and wine will be served.