From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
Jewish Cultural Creativity in Twentieth-Century America
November 16, 2004
LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building
Library of Congress
Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland
This program is free and open to the public.
Program
10:00 am
Welcome
Irene Chambers, Director, Interpretive Programs Office, Library
of Congress
Gary Gerstle, Chair, Department of History, University of Maryland
10:15 - 12:15 pm
Session I: The View from the West Coast
Introducer: Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland
"Reappraising the Jewish Refugees in Hollywood"
Saverio Giovacchini
Department of History
University of Maryland
"Deciphering America's Crypto-Jew: The cultural politics of Jewish
images in early American films."
Tom Zakim
Department of History
University of California, Berkeley
"Arnold Schoenberg: Letters to American Jewry"
Steven J. Cahn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Music Theory
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Session II: The View From the East Coast
Chair: Michael Grunberger, Hebraic Section, Library of Congress
"Jewish Life and the American Landscape"
Daniel Bertrand Monk
Director
Peace Studies
Colgate University
"The NewYork-Jewish Critical Voice: Irving Howe and Alfred Kazin
as Readers of American Literature"
Eric Zakim
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Maryland
"Inventing Jewish Neighborhoods in America"
Bernard Cooperman
Louis L. Kaplan Professor of Jewish History
University of Maryland
