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Feb 24, 2010 · Judith Butler: As a Jew, I Was Taught It Was Ethically Imperative to Speak Up. The philosopher, professor and author talks about gender, the dehumanization of Gazans, and how Jewish values drove her to criticize the actions of the State of Israel.
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Their mother was raised Orthodox, eventually becoming Conservative and then Reform, while their father was raised Reform. As a child and teenager, Butler attended both Hebrew school and special classes on Jewish ethics, where they received their "first training in philosophy".
Mar 13, 2024 · The Talmudic rabbis teach, af al pi shekhata, Yisrael hu (Sanhedrin 44a), which we might render as: “a Jew is a Jew no matter what sin they do”.
Feb 24, 2010 · It was over three years ago, at the beginning of the Second Lebanon war, that Slavoj iek came to Israel to give a speech on my film Forgiveness. The Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel asked him not to come to the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Jun 23, 2021 · Butler studied at Yale University (Ph.D. 1984) and taught at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993, where they remain the Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and the Program in Critical Theory.
Judith Butler, American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex were influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century.
INTRODUCTION. Judith Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1956 to Jewish parents of Russian and Hungarian heritage. Because her parents practiced different forms of Judaism, mother Orthodox and father Reformed, they decided to send Judith to Hebrew school to study and learn about religion for herself.
