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South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX

Saturday 10 July, 7.00 pm

Tatiana Salem Levy and Joao Paulo Cuenca

João Paulo Cuenca and Tatiana Salem Levy are two of the most dynamic new literary voices in Brazil. Reading for the first time in the UK, they discuss the prospects for younger generation writers as Brazil takes its place on the world stage. Tatiana Salem Levy won the 2008 São Paulo Prize of Literature with her first novel The Key of Smyrna. João Paulo Cuenca has written two novels, Corpo Present and O Dia Mastroianni, and writes regularly for the Brazilian news paper O Globo.

To book tickets (£7), call 0844 875 0073 or click here.

Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5BH.

Thursday 22 July 2010, 7pm

Prof Etienne Balibar (University of Paris)

Marx and the Jewish Question

The lecture will look at the ambiguity of the term “Jewish Question”, which refers to both the historical attitude of Marx with respect to the condition of the Jewish communities in 19th century Europe, and to the philosophical developments reflected in the 1844 article for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, “Zur Judenfrage”. Here, in reply to Bruno Bauer’s homonymous brochure, Marx would propose his first analysis of the value and limitations of bourgeois “juridical universality”. The lecture will deal with the tension in Marx’s theory between a “secular” theory of the political in terms of radical democratic emancipation and a “messianic” reinterpretation of the function of the Chosen People. The lecture will try to assess the extent to which Marx’s dialectic of community and universality constituted a real alternative to the development of Modern Jewish Nationalism or simply represented its inverted image.

Etienne Balibar was born in Avallon, France in 1942; he has taught at the Universities of Algiers, Paris, Leiden, Nanterre and is now Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is also teaching at the Centro Franco-Argentino de Altos Estudios, Buenos-Aires, and the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York. His books include Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser, 1965), Race, Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities (1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, Classes, Ideas (1994), The Philosophy of Marx (1995), Spinoza and Politics (1998), Politics and the Other Scene (2002), We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004). Forthcoming are Extreme Violence and the Problem of Civility (The Wellek Library Lectures, 1996), and Citoyen Sujet, Essais d’anthropologie philo­sophique (Presses Universitaires de France). Balibar is a member of Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (Paris), with a particular interest in the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. He is co-founder of Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and acting chair of Association Jan Hus France.

Admission is free but places are limited and must be reserved in advance by contacting the Leo Baeck Institute: email info@leobaeck.co.uk or phone 020 7580 3493.

Lectures begin promptly at 7pm. Latecomers may not be admitted.

Underground: Regents Park, Great Portland Street.

Bus: C2, 18, 27, 30, 88, 435.

Organised by the LBI London and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt/Main in cooperation with Queen Mary, University of London.

Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ   

Thursday 2 September, 7.00 pm

Exclusive JBW event with

David Grossman

for the launch of his latest novel,

To the End of the Land, 

described by Paul Auster as 'wrenching, beautiful, [and] unforgettable'.  

Tickets: £15 (students £10).To book your ticketsemail geraldine@jewishbookweek.com

with the number of tickets requested.

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