“Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History” will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. Brel Lang on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. Lang, who is  professor of philosophy emeritus at the State University of New York, Albany, will deliver his the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Virtual Lecture hosted by UConn’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.

Lang is the author of 12 looks, including Writing and the Moral Self, and Ace and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, among others.

The historian Salo Baron attacked the “lachrymose view of Jewish history” as mistakenly focused on events or practices of persecution and violence in that history – at th esame time providing strong evidence that still more basic factors shaped the history of Jewish flourishing and survival. Land will discuss how how the same lachrymose view still dominates current popular Jewish understanding and this has severe even dangerous practical consequences.

For information: avinoam.patt@uconn.edu. To register: judaicstudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events.