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Symposium on the Jewish 1950’s
March 9, 2019 @ 10:30 am - March 11, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
Free
Saturday evening, 7pm dinner at Jack Kugelmass’s home
- Jennifer Meeropol, “Ethel Rosenberg, the Communist in the Kitchen”
Sunday, Seminar Room, Walker Hall
11am–12:30pm, Jewishness and Judaism
- Sandy Fox (Ben-Gurion University) “American Jewish Summer Camps of the Fifties: Yiddishism, Zionism, and Jewish Education in Transition”
- Rachel Gordan (UF) “The Midcentury Middlebrow Moment in American Jewish Culture”
12:30-1:30pm, Lunch
1:45–3:15pm, Politics
- Kate Rosenblatt (Emory) “Towards a reconsideration of consensus history: American Jews and the discursive limits of dissent in the 1950s”
- Ronit Stahl (UC-Berkeley) “Rethinking Religious Liberty: American Jewish Jurisprudence in the 1950s”
3:30–5:00pm, Art & Culture
- Robert Abzug (UT-Austin),“The Hurban in a Drop of Water: Roman Vishniac in the 1950s”
- Gill Frank (UVA), “Revolting or Revolutionary? Ruth Wallis and Women’s Sexual Performance in the 1950s”
Monday, Isser Rae Price Judaica Library
10:30am–12:00pm, Religion
- Zev Eleff (Hebrew Theological College) “The Making of Tradition and the Great Orthodox Jewish Reboot.”
- Jenna Weissman Joselit (George Washington University) “Boom!: The Synagogue in Postwar America.
12:15–1:00pm, Health
- Samira Mehta (Albright College) “Beyond Brenda’s Diaphragm: Struggles for Contraceptives in 1950s New York”
1:00–1:15pm
- Library presentation with Rebecca Jefferson