Issued by: Paula Orth
414-229-2947
phorth@uwm.edu
Date: April 9, 2004
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Issued by: Paula Orth Date: April 9, 2004 |
MILWAUKEE
- Celebrate 350 years of Jewish life in America. Join Prof. Joyce Antler when
she offers her warm, witty insight into “Our Mothers, Ourselves: Exploring
the Legacy of the Jewish Mother.” The 2004 Faye Greenberg Sigman Woman
of Valor Lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday,
April 28, 7 p.m., at the Golda Meir Library, 4th floor conference center, 2311
E. Hartford Ave., and is sponsored by the UWM College of Letters and Science
Center for Jewish Studies.
Antler’s presentation, which includes television and film clips, will be followed by a reception, where audience members may meet her, as well as the new director of the UWM Center for Jewish Studies, Prof. Chava Frankfort-Nachmias. “You don’t have to be Jewish or a woman to appreciate Antler’s work. There is a Jewish proverb that says -God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Antler’s lecture will entertain, inform, and touch people from all backgrounds. I am really excited to have her here at UWM – and the Center for Jewish Studies” Frankfort- Nachamias said.
Antler, the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University, focuses on Biblical texts, legal narratives, folklore and pop culture to determine how the power and presence of Jewish matriarchs are represented in strikingly different ways. A founding member of the Board of Jewish Women’s Archive, she is writing a cultural history of the Jewish mother. Her previous publications include, “Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America” and “Television’s Changing Image of American Jews.” She has edited, “Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture” and “America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Writers.”
Antler also will present a colloquium, “Constructing the ‘Jewish Mother’: Lessons from Social Science, Popular Culture, and Biography,” Thursday, April 29, 11:30-1:30 p.m., in Garland Hall, Room 104.
For more information, contact the UWM Center for Jewish Studies, 414-229-5319.