In this presentation we will analyze historically, philosophically, and theologically the intellectual interchanges between Judaism and the radical political ideas of the Latin American Liberation Theology in the 1960s-1980s. The lecturer will conduct a critical study of the explicit and implicit dialogue that the first generation of liberation theologians - like the Argentines Enrique Dussel and Juan Carlos Scannone, the Peruvian Gustavo Gutierrez, and the Mexican Porfirio Miranda - had with the Jewish tradition and with modern Jewish thinkers from German-speaking milieus like Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Bloch, and Levinas.

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Silvana Kandel Lamdan has a BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought and a MA in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Today she is finishing her Ph.D. as a fellow researcher at the Bucerius Institute at the University of Haifa, under the supervision of Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli. In her doctoral research, she intends to analyze historically, philosophically, and theologically the intellectual interchanges between Judaism and the radical political ideas of the Latin American Liberation Theology in the 1960s-1980s.

She is also an activist for interreligious dialogue. Silvana has published several articles. Her last article, “A Tembel Hat in the Streets of Nazareth: Paul Gauthier’s Israel Experience” was recently published in the Harvard Theological Review.

In this presentation we will analyze historically, philosophically, and theologically the intellectual interchanges between Judaism and the radical political ideas of the Latin American Liberation Theology in the 1960s-1980s. The lecturer will conduct a critical study of the explicit and implicit dialogue that the first generation of liberation theologians - like the Argentines Enrique Dussel and Juan Carlos Scannone, the Peruvian Gustavo Gutierrez, and the Mexican Porfirio Miranda - had with the Jewish tradition and with modern Jewish thinkers from German-speaking milieus like Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Bloch, and Levinas.

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Silvana Kandel Lamdan has a BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought and a MA in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Today she is finishing her Ph.D. as a fellow researcher at the Bucerius Institute at the University of Haifa, under the supervision of Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli. In her doctoral research, she intends to analyze historically, philosophically, and theologically the intellectual interchanges between Judaism and the radical political ideas of the Latin American Liberation Theology in the 1960s-1980s.

She is also an activist for interreligious dialogue. Silvana has published several articles. Her last article, “A Tembel Hat in the Streets of Nazareth: Paul Gauthier’s Israel Experience” was recently published in the Harvard Theological Review.