Jeremy Rosen
Passover: Slavery and Freedom Today
Summary
Jeremy Rosen discusses the difficult historical intersection between Passover, freedom, and slavery.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
So that’s a brilliant question. It’s a very good question and I wish I knew the answer. I hope they did. But remember, most of the Jewish slave owners in the early years were not practicing Jews. Many of them were muranos. They’d escaped from Spain and Portugal to the Caribbean. They didn’t necessarily, some of them did, they didn’t necessarily adhere to Jewish law, but if they were, then they had to abide by it and if they didn’t, then shame on them.