Internationally recognized scholar, author and filmmaker Ruth Behar will discuss her cultural experiences as a Cuban Jew in a presentation entitled “Through Jewish Cuban Eyes: The Jewish Latin American Experience” at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The lecture will take place in the Fourth Floor Conference Center at UWM’s Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. The lecture is free; for additional information, please call (414) 229-4345.
Behar is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her controversial book “The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart” (1997) examines the role that the personal can play in ethnographic writing.
Since 1991 her research and writing have focused on her native country, Cuba, which she left at the age of four. Her research on the dwindling yet vibrant Jewish community in Cuba is the focus of her film “Adio Kerida” (2002). Jewish Cuba is also the topic of her latest book, “An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba” (2007).
The lecture is presented in association with the Jewish Latin America Collection in Special Collections at the UW-Milwaukee Libraries and the Louis P. and Ethel S. Setlick Fund for the Study of Jewish Society and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Community co-sponsors are Hillel Milwaukee, Jewish Museum Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Area Jewish Committee, the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, and the Jewish Latin America Collection Associates.
More information is available on the Jewish Museum Milwaukee Web site, www.jewishmuseummilwaukee.org, or call 414-390-5730.
Loading ...