Deborah Hertz Featured at UC's Lichter Lecture on Jan. 8

Each year, the Judaic Studies Department in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences presents the Lichter Lecture Series, made possible by the Jacob and Jennie L. Lichter Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. This year’s lecture series focuses on

“Jews and the Challenges of Cosmopolitanism.”

The next Lichter Lecture, the second in a series of three, features

Deborah Hertz,

Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and professor of history at University of California, San Diego.

Hertz is the author of How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin and Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (which has been translated into German). Besides UC-San Diego, Hertz has taught at Pittsburgh State University and Sarah Lawrence College and has had visiting appointments at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa and Harvard. She is currently working on a new book (working title: “Journeys to Emancipation: Jewish Women in Radical Politics, 1869—1914”) that covers women in anarchist, terrorist, socialist, Yiddishist, feminist and Zionist movements from New York City to Vilna to Odessa to the kibbutzim in Palestine.

Who: Deborah Hertz, Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and professor of history at University of California, San Diego
What: “From the Business Wife to the High-Culture Mother: The Origins of Reform Judaism in Modern Germany”
When: Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Where: 119 Muntz Hall at Raymond Walters College, Blue Ash

At the conclusion of the lecture there will be a reception with light refreshments.

Free parking is readily available: PARKING MAP

For further information contact the Department of Judaic Studies at 513-556-2297.

Save the date! The final Lichter Lecture in Judaic Studies will feature David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California. His talk will be “The Cosmopolitan Agenda of Jewish Secularism” on Thursday, April 2, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center on UC’s Uptown Campus.

Did you miss the first 2008 Lichter Lecture? It was standing room only!

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The Lichter Lecture Series in Judaic Studies is made possible by the Jacob and Jennie L. Lichter Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.