Lamentations of Walter Benjamin
The 62nd Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture
Presented by Peter E. Gordon
March 19, 2026
6:30 pm Eastern
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis Library
Reception to follow
Description of the talk...
Presenter
Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University.
The 62nd Rawidowicz lecture is sponsored by the Tauber Institute with the support of the Valya and Robert Shapiro Endowment, the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Teaching Award, and the School of Arts and Sciences Co-Curricular Fund.
For more information, email tauber@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-2125.
About Simon Rawidowicz
Simon Rawidowicz (1896-1957) was one of the most innovative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. He was an erudite and wide-ranging student of Jewish and European philosophy, recognized by specialists for his studies of Maimonides, Nachman Krochmal, and Ludwig Feuerbach, among others. Over the course of a long and peripatetic career that took him from Lithuania to Germany to England, and finally the United States, Rawidowicz affirmed his commitment to a Jewish cultural nationalism anchored by Hebrew. His lifelong devotion to the study of Jewish philosophy and Hebrew literature was further realized at Brandeis University where he was a founding member of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.