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The Tragic Couple: Encounters between Jews & Jesuits

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The Tragic Couple: Encounters between Jews & Jesuits

June 15 - July 31, 2012

This Burns Library exhibit is mounted in conjunction with the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning's international conference "The Tragic Couple: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits" (July 9-13, 2012). The exhibition is divided into three parts that highlight some important aspects of the conference:

I. Diego Laínez and the converso question in the early Society of Jesus

II. Books by Jesuits of Jewish background

III. Jesuit Hebraists

This Burns Library exhibit is mounted in conjunction with the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning's international conference "The Tragic Couple: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits" (July 9-13, 2012). The exhibition is divided into three parts that highlight some important aspects of the conference:

I. Diego Laínez and the converso question in the early Society of Jesus

II. Books by Jesuits of Jewish background

III. Jesuit Hebraists