Join longtime Kesher member M. Lindsay Kaplan for a Shabbat afternoon discussion of her new book, Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity.

Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept of Jewish hereditary inferiority.

M. Lindsay Kaplan is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on representations of race and religion in early modern drama. She authored The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England, numerous essays on The Merchant of Venice and produced an edition of the play in the Bedford/St. Martin's Texts and Contexts series.