Rottman Family Lecture: “If I am Only my Genes, What am I? Jewish Identity and the Genetic Self”

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair of Jewish Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Wolpe’s topic focused on the role that genetics has played in antisemitic thought, Jewish self-identity and definition, and the problems and possibilities for genetics as a tool for Jewish communities.