The Sam & Helen Stahl Center of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a prestigious grant that is funding a series of public programs over the 2011-2012 academic year.
The series, “Roots and Restlessness: Jewish Lives at Home and Abroad,” will explore the roots of the Milwaukee-area Jewish community in both the United States and Europe. It will involve such topics as music, theatre, popular entertainment, and European and American history. Admission is free.
The second program of the series is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m., at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N. Prospect Ave. Lisa Silverman, associate professor at UWM, will speak on “From Falling to Jumping: Philipp Halsmann and the Austrian ‘Dreyfus Affair,’” the story of Halsmann, a celebrated photographer who in Austria had been falsely convicted of the murder of his father.
The third program is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m., at UWM’s Greene Hall. Tim Crain, assistant professor at UWM, will discuss “Franklin Roosevelt and the Jews.”
The grant is known as the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, supported by Legacy Heritage Fund Ltd., and is administered by the Association for Jewish Studies, the primary learned society in the field.
The project aims to promote sustained Jewish studies programming in mid-sized and smaller cities and to foster relationships between scholars and the wider communities in which they work.
UWM’s Jewish Studies program was one of four nationwide to be awarded the grant for 2011-12, along with those at Michigan State, the University of Colorado, and the University of Washington.
Future events will be held in February, March, and May; and will be announced in later Chronicle issues.
All events in the series are co-sponsored by JMM, the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center — all programs of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation — plus Hillel Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning Inc., and UWM’s Golda Meir Library, Peck School of the Arts, and College of Letters & Science.
For more information, call 414-229-6121 or email cjsuwm@ uwm.edu.
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