Intersections Through History
Antisemitism and Racism in the American Jewish Experience
Wed / Begins Oct 26 / 10 Weeks / 7:00 pm / 87th Street
Dr. David E. Kaufman
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By viewing the American Jewish historical experience through the lens of racism – race being the critical social divide in our nation’s history – we will begin to better understand how antisemitism operates in America and how American Jews are shaped in myriad ways by America’s racial pathologies, as well as by its social, political, economic, and religious freedoms.
Photo credit: "Jewish War Orphans Arrive in the United States," Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Underwood & Underwood Photographer, 1921.
Photo credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection. "Interracial group of people at a demonstration organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against discrimination and in response to the death of Medgar Evers in front of the White House, Washington, D.C." Leffler, Warren K., photographer. 14 June 1963.
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