Monday, March 4, 4:00- 5:45pm

Session 1: Historical Intersections of Black/Jewish Relations
Chair: Nancy Sinkoff,
Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University NB

“The Ghost of Judah P. Benjamin: The Patron Saint of the Jewish Lost Cause”
David Weinfeld, Rowan University

“Jews as Historians of the Black American Experience”
Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton

"Word of Witness: Hans Massaquoi, the Power of Memoir, and Tools for Black-Jewish Allyship"
Emanuela Kucik, Associate Professor of English Literatures and Writing and Africana Studies, Muhlenberg College

Respondent:
Rachel Devlin, Professor of History, Rutgers University NB

Public Program

7:30pm-9:00pm

Not Quite White in Fiction and Film: Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement and Nella Larsen's Passing 

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