“Is the writing of Jewish history possible without tears and tales of woe? This was the challenge leveled nearly a hundred years ago by perhaps the most influential Jewish historian in the United States, Salo Baron. Since then, scholars have worked to ensure that Jewish history is not reduced to a tale of suffering alone, and rightly so. But in recent years historians of Jewish life—from the Ancient Mediterranean to the modern Americas—have begun to wonder if perhaps we have written suffering and sadness too far out of the stories we tell. In this conference, an international group of scholars will join together to rethink this important question for the writing of Jewish history.”
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Andreas Lehnertz (March 26, 2025). The Scales of Suffering: Neo-Lachrymosity and the Writing of Jewish History, Conference, 31 March 2025 (Zoom). medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved November 10, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/13knp