Sunday, October 18, 2009

Women and the Yiddish Press - 10.29.09

“Addressing the Ladies”:
A Panel on Women and the Yiddish Press

Thursday, October 29, 2009
5:00-6:30 PM

Dr. Rachel Rojanski
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Haifa, Fellow Katz CAJS, UPENN
“Yiddish Journals for Women in Israel:Immigrant Press and Gender Construction (1948-1952)”
Shelby Shapiro
Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Maryland
"A Woman's Place: The Women's Sections in Three Yiddish Mass Circulation Daily Papers, 1914-1925."

Respondent:
Dr. Rebecca Kobrin
Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University

The event will be held in the Berman Board Room
at the Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, NYC.

Please RSVP to jfrg.jts@gmail.com and receive a copy of the papers to be discussed.