FABRANGEN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Fabrangen Jewish Community proudly announces its 2012 Scholar-in-Residence Program

Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University

Saturday, January 7, 2012 Shabbat Parshat Lech Lecha
Shabbat Services: 9:30 AM Kiddush Lunch and Informal Discussion
Dvar Torah on Parshat Vayehi by Hasia Diner

Havdalah and Evening Lecture 7:30 PM Dessert Reception to follow lecture
The Future of American Jewry: The Perspective of a Scholar

All events will take place at Washington Ethical Society, 7750 16th Street NW (at Kalmia Road)
Washington D.C.

Hasia Diner, is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University, where she has been on the faculty since 1998.  Her research interests include American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and Jewish women's history. 

Hasia has written about the ways in which American Jews in the early twentieth century reacted to the issue of race and the suffering of African Americans, as well as the many ways that American Jews coped with Americanization and crafting Jewish identities in America.  She is the author of several books:

• In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 (1977);
• Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (1983);
• A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (1992);
• Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001);
• Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (with Beryl Benderly, 2002);
• Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America (2002); and
• The Jews of the United States, 1654-2000 (2004).  

Her most recent book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust (2009) won the National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies and the Saul Viener Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Hasia, her husband Steve, and their three children, were a very active part of our community in the 1990’s.

The Scholar-in-Residence Program is made possible through the generosity of the Fabrangen 36th Anniversary Fund