Past Events- April 7 and May 1, 2008

Inside the Making of:

Jewish Women:
A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

Monday, April 7, 2008
5:30-7:00 PM



Discussion and celebration with co-editors:
Paula Hyman
Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University
Dalia Ofer
Professor of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University

Moderated by:
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Dean of List College, JTS

The event will be held in the Private Dining Room (PDR)
at the Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, NYC (@ 122nd St).

Refreshments will be served!
RSVP to JFRG.JTS@gmail.com to reserve a seat.

About the editors:
Paula E. Hyman, a founding member of Ezrat Nashim, is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and president of the American Academy of Jewish Research. She also served as the first female dean of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition to several books on French Jewry, she has written widely on Jewish women’s history. Among her books are The Jewish Woman in America; Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History; and the two-volume encyclopedia Jewish Women in America, which she co-edited with Deborah Dash Moore. She also edited and introduced Puah Rakovsky’s My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland.

Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. During the Spring of 2008, Dr. Ofer is Stockton College's Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies. During the Spring 2007 semester, she was engaged in research at The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Dr. Ofer is the author and/or editor of many essays, book reviews and books, including Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the land of Israel (1991), co-author, The Dead-End Journey (1996), ed., New Immigrants and Veterans in the Massimmigration to Israel, 1948-1952, co-ed., Women in the Holocaust (1998).

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SAVE the DATE! Thursday, May 1, 2008

"The World is not Ready for This":
Jewish Sororities and the Desegregation Question

Shira Kohn-Levy, PhD Candidate at New York University

With Respondents:
Dr. Rebecca Kobrin, Assistant Professor of Jewish History (Columbia University)
Dr. Diana Turk, Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (NYU) and author of Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920.