Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 7 PM
University of Colorado at Boulder
University Memorial Center Room 382
Boulder, CO 80301
Presented by the Program in Jewish Studies at CU-Boulder and co-sponsored by Menorah at the Boulder JCC
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Free and open to the public RSVP's appreciated as space is limited
Under the Roman rule in Judea and Provincia Judea (64 B.C.E. - 135 C.E) the Jewish population revolted a few times against the Roman occupation. This lecture with Professor Menachem Mor, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa, Israel, is devoted to the Bar Kochba Revolt - the last revolt against the Romans. The Jewish defeat is the last attempt in which the Jews fought for their freedom. The lecture will examine the participants of the revolt, their political attitude and how we can relate the Bar Kochba Revolt to the invention of Jewish radicalism.
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