ABM Talk: Male Circumcision, Jewish Difference and Secular Law: A German Case Study
Channel: Abraham Bar Menachem Talks
Date: 2022-09-29

The ABM Talk from June 2022 was titled “Male Circumcision, Jewish Difference and Secular Law: A German Case Study". We were pleased to listen to Dr. Mareike Riedel  (Lecturer at Macquarie Law School in Sydney/Australien) who gave the talk that was commented on by Prof. Shai Lavi (Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute & Professor at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Israel).

The ABM Talks are held monthly as part of the research project "Seeing Antisemitism Through Law: High Promises or Indeterminacies?" (SATL). The project is affiliated with the law faculty of Justus-Liebig-University Gießen and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 

The series is named after lawyer Dr. Abraham Bar Menachem. He was born in 1912 in Gießen-Wieseck and, after studying law, completed his doctorate in 1933 at the then Ludwigs University in Gießen. Due to his Jewish ancestry, the Nazis no longer allowed him to take the Referendarexamen. In 1938, Bar Menachem fled with his wife to Palestine, where he worked as a lawyer and was later elected mayor of the Israeli city of Netanya. Throughout his life, Bar Menachem tirelessly contributed to reconciliation between the Jewish people and Germany. It is our great honour, with the kind permission of his family, to name our lecture series after him. 

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