Lecture: Recently, leisure has become an important topic, and rest has become a universal human right. However, the value of rest is the result of a long historical process, in which Jews and Christians participated in antiquity and in the Middle Ages. The history of rest is restless. It contains all the components of a living culture: competition, strife, acculturation and imitation.

BIO: Prof. Israel J. Yuval is currently the Academic Head of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is holding the Teddy Kollek Chair for Cultural Studies of Vienna and Jerusalem at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is teaching at the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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