Are there Jewish ways to celebrate those distinctively American holidays Independence Day and Thanksgiving? Or do these holidays have a particular significance for American Jews as they tried to weave themselves into U.S. culture and society?
Beth S. Wagner, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and director of that school’s Jewish studies program, will explore these and other associated issues in a lecture titled “Civics Lessons: Jews and American National Holidays.”
This Kutler Lecture (made possible by Sandra and Stanley Kutler) is scheduled to take place on Monday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m., at Union South, 1308 Dayton St., at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wagner will deliver an additional Kutler lecture Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., on “Making American Jewish Men: The Construction of Jewish Masculinities in American Culture.”
Here, she will discuss how the European stereotype of Jewish men as timid, weak, and feminized was confronted in American culture.
For more information, contact UW-Madison’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, 608-265-4763 or email jewishstudies@cjs.wisc.edu.
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