The conference focuses on the lives and choices of American Jewish women in the postwar years, probing the various ways in which Jewish women responded to the pressures of American gender politics during this period. The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8981.
New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies will host “A Jewish Feminist Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America,” Feb. 25-27 at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Sq. South, betw. Sullivan and Thompson Sts.). The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8981 or email gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu to RSVP. For a complete schedule of events, go to www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/hebrew/jewishwomenconf.htm.
The conference focuses on the lives and choices of American Jewish women in the postwar years, probing the various ways in which Jewish women responded to the pressures of American gender politics during this period. The event’s evening panels include the following: “Motherhood, Power, and Politics: Screening Ethel Rosenberg, Tillie Olsen, and Gertrude Berg,” (panelists include: filmmaker Ivy Meeropol, Ethel Rosenberg’s granddaughter; children’s book editor Anne Schwartz, granddaughter of Gertude Berg; and filmmaker Rachel Lyons); “Bobby Socks and Bat Mitzvahs: Growing Up Jewish and Female in the 1950s”; and “The Stage and Silver Screen: Jewish Women and Performance.” Conference speakers include the following: Ruth Abram, founder and president of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum; author Alix Kates Shulman; Judith Shapiro, president of Barnard College; and NYU Professor Hasia Diner. Daniel Horowitz, a professor of American Studies at Smith College and author of Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism, will deliver the keynote address, on Sun., Feb. 25, at 10 a.m.
Reporters interested in attending should contact James Devitt, Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
- WHAT: Conference: “A Jewish Feminist Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America”
- WHO: Ruth Abram, founder and president of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum; author Alix Kates Shulman; Judith Shapiro, president of Barnard College; Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol (granddaughter of Ethel Rosenberg); NYU Professor Hasia Diner; and others
- WHEN & WHERE: Sun., Feb. 25 - Tues., Feb. 27, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Sq. South, betw. Sullivan and Thompson Sts.) [Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)]