This Weekend: Constructing American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades

Please join us for "Absorbing Encounters: Constructing American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades."  This conference seeks to bring together scholars of literature, film studies, history, ethnography and related fields to examine how the American Jewish community in the post-Holocaust era was shaped by its encounter with literary relics, living refugees, and other cultural productions that grew out of an encounter with Eastern European Jewish life from the pre-Holocaust era.  The conference will be held at the University of Maryland, and is free and open to the public. For more information and a full schedule of events please go to: http://jewishstudies.umd.edu/absorbing-encounters.

Sheila Elana Jelen
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
sjelen@umd.edu