The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies will celebrate its new home in the renovated Greene Museum on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus on Nov. 13.
Center director Joel Berkowitz will give an inaugural lecture on the “The Many Languages of Yiddish Drama” at UWM’s Zelazo Center, 2419 Kenwood Blvd., room 250, at 4 p.m. after an invitation-only dedication ceremony. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Berkowitz will explore how Yiddish playwrights turned the language differences that can be found among Yiddish speakers into dramatic dialogue.
A $2 million gift from the Baye Foundation and the Berkowitz family allowed the center to relocate over the summer from a two-office suite on campus to the historic building off Downer Ave.
The center is named the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies to honor the parents of the late Pearl Berkowitz, who was a trustee of the Baye Foundation and the wife of the late Nathan Berkowitz, the former president of the foundation. (See the May 2009 Chronicle.)
The Stahl Center, which was created in 1997, supports a multidisciplinary undergraduate major and minor in Jewish studies. The center also offers free public lectures, workshops, conferences and other events for the community.
For more information, call 414-229-6121.
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