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Morris Bart Sr., Lecture Series: Dr. Joel Dinerstein
The Benefits of a Diasporic Identity for Jewish-Americans
We are living through a moment of disruption and discord in Jewish identity. There is a deepening political and cultural chasm between the perspectives of Israeli and American Jews, with some writers arguing for the renewal of diasporic identity. I grew up with a diasporic identity in Flatbush, Brooklyn, one of the most urban Jewish neighborhoods in America in the mid-20th Century – Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond both went to my high school. Combining autobiography and scholarship, I will make a case for a diasporic identity for American Jews, as illuminated by reading excerpts from my new family memoir, The Last of the Ellis Island Jews.
I am the Sizeler Family Professor of Judaic Studies at Tulane University and two of my courses have these tensions as key thematics: (1) Jewish-American Literature, based on the diasporic identity of immigrant Jews; (2) Jews and Race, which focuses on how and why Jews were the racial Other of Europe long before the Holocaust.
Monday, August 10 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Free for members | $10 non-members
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