The session ‘Spiritual Values that United and Divided Rembrandt and the Jews’ took place on January 31, 2022
Session moderator — Gary Schwartz, Guest Curator, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
Lecturers:
Michael Zell, Associate Professor of Baroque and Eighteenth-Century Art, Boston University
‘Rembrandt, the Jews and Multicultural Amsterdam’
Steven Nadler, WARF Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–Madison
‘Menasseh ben Israel, Spinoza and Rembrandt’
Shelley Perlove, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan
‘What Judaism Meant to Rembrandt and Vice Versa’
Participants of the discussion:
Larry Silver, James & Nan Farquhar Professor Emeritus of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Mirjam Knotter, Chief Curator and Exhibitions Manager, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Nina Getashvili, Head of the Art History Department at the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow
Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Print Section of the Department of Western Visual Arts, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Liya Chechik, Curator, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
On the splash screen: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. Portrait of Ephraim Bueno. 1645–1647. Fragment. Rijksmuseum
