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SUMMARY:2024 Stahl Center Distinguished Lecture
DESCRIPTION:James Loeffler\, “The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law” \nRegister for Zoom meeting. \nCan law stem hate speech without violating the First Amendment? In 1977\, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie\, Illinois filed a class action lawsuit to stop a planned neo-Nazi march by alleging menticide—the psychological equivalent of genocide. Nazi words and symbols constituted a form of violence\, they claimed\, not constitutionally protected speech. In this lecture\, historian James Loeffler reconstructs this curious episode and discusses its larger implications for the contemporary debate over antisemitism and free speech in American law. \nJames Loeffler is Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University\, and co-editor of the Association for Jewish Studies Review. His writings include two award-winning books Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire\, and two edited volumes\, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century and A Jew in the Street: New Views on European Jewish History. He is current writing a book about antisemitism and the First Amendment in postwar America\, which grew out of his Atlantic magazine article about his coverage of the trial of the White Supremacist organizers of the 2017 attack on Charlottesville. \nCosponsored by UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies; Division of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; History Department; and Honors College. \nDownload the event flyer. (PDF)
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/2024-stahl-center-distinguished-lecture/
LOCATION:Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Seminar with James Loeffler
DESCRIPTION:James Loeffler\, Johns Hopkins University \nSearching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism \nHow does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar\, I discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s creation of the legal concept of genocide in interwar Polish Jewish culture. \nJames Loeffler is Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University. His writings include two award-winning books\, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire. He is currently writing a book about antisemitism and the First Amendment in postwar America. \nCosponsored by UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies; Division of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; History Department; and Honors College \n  \nDownload the event flyer. [PDF]
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/afternoon-seminar-with-james-loeffler/
LOCATION:Lubar Entrepreneurship Center\, Nicholas Innovation Commons (Room 105)
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SUMMARY:The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians
DESCRIPTION:Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture \n“The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians”\nLecture by Grace Kessler Overbeke \nTuesday\, March 5\, 2024\n7:00 p.m. CST\nGolda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center and via Zoom \nRegister here.  \nPhoto: Jean Sullivan on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” CBS\, November 30\, 1958. SOFA Entertainment\nBefore The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians\, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a “boys’ club\,” the truth is that there have always been influential women on the scene. Alongside Jewish male comics like Groucho Marx\, Lenny Bruce\, Jack Benny\, and Jerry Seinfeld\, there were pioneering Jewish female stand-ups like Jean Carroll\, Joan Rivers\, Totie Fields\, and Sarah Silverman\, offering their inimitable insights on the experience of being a Jew — and a woman — in the United States. From tackling double standards to deflating stereotypes like the “Jewish American Princess\,” Jewish female stand-up comedians have made major contributions to the way that American audiences have seen Jewish women — and the way that Jewish women have seen themselves. \nGrace Kessler Overbeke is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department of Columbia College Chicago with a focus in the Theatre Studies and Comedy Writing and Performance programs. Her monograph\, Jean Carroll: The First Lady of Laughs is forthcoming from New York University Press. Her most recent scholarship appears in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies\, Theatre Topics\, and Theatre Survey. \nThe Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” lecture is made possible by the generosity of the Taxman and Temkin families. \nCosponsored by UWM’s Departments of English and Women’s and Gender Studies and programs in Digital Arts and Culture; Film Studies; and Journalism\, Advertising\, and Media Studies. \nDownload the PDF flyer for this event.
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/the-many-mrs-maisels-the-history-of-jewish-female-stand-up-comedians/
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SUMMARY:Seminar with Christa Whitney
DESCRIPTION:Building an Archive of Language\, Identity\, and Diaspora:\nThe Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project \nWed February 7\, 2024\n3:30 – 4:30 pm\nUWM Library E272 (former DH Lab) \nHow does one create an archive? What is oral history? What is informed consent? How can archival work be simultaneously reparative and generative? In this workshop\, we’ll dig into the practical and theoretical aspects of creating a digital archive—specifically\, an oral history archive about a language and culture with presence around the world: Yiddish. Christa P. Whitney will draw on her experience of traveling extensively and building a digital oral history—the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project—since 2010 to present key aspects\, challenges\, and delights of digital recording\, digital archives\, and the face-to-face relationship building that underpins it all. We’ll explore oral history theory\, interviewing techniques\, workflows\, editing and curation\, and much more. \nChrista P. Whitney\nChrista is the director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project\, a growing collection of more than 1\,000 in-depth video interviews about Yiddish language and culture with people of all ages and backgrounds. Originally from Northern California\, Christa discovered Yiddish while studying comparative literature at Smith. She has studied Yiddish language at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute\, the Workers Circle\, and the Yiddish Book Center. For the past ten years\, she has traveled near and far recording oral history interviews\, while also managing a video archive and producing documentary films and web features about all aspects of Yiddish language and culture. \nChrista Whitney’s visit is a partnership with Jewish Museum Milwaukee \nCo-sponsored by UWM’s:\nCenter for 21st Century Studies \nDepartments of English; Film\, Video\, Animation & New Genres; Global Studies\, and History; and Programs in Creative Writing; Film Studies; Museum Studies; and Russian and East European Studies \nHonors College \nUWM Libraries
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