Topic: Class
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson with Joseph Ewoodzie, Jr.
Tulane University Department of Sociology Colloquium Series. The Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience on this series proudly partnered on this
A Cross-Continental Conversation: Dr. Ilana Horwitz and Dr. David Slucki Discuss Jewish Socioeconomic Diversity
The conversation touches on the role of Jewish institutions in providing social capital and how changes in religious engagement in the U.S. affect these dynamics.
Jewish Learning through Cultural Arts
The most recent Pew Research Center’s report on American Judaism, “Jewish Americans in 2020,” found that although American Jews overall are not a highly religious group, they are highly engaged in Jewish cultural activities, including cooking Jewish food, visiting historical Jewish sites, reading Jewish literature, and watching television shows or movies about Jewish or Israeli themes.
New Developments in Caribbean Jewish Studies
A rich historiography of Caribbean Jewry had begun to emerge in the work of scholars such as Natalie Zemon Davis and Jonathan Schorsch, building on earlier studies by Robert Cohen and other
New Work on American Jewish Literature
Even more than scholars in other disciplines, it seems to me, literary scholars regularly disagree about what, methodologically, they’re up to. Lately some of the debates in the field have been over “distant reading” practices, historicism, and whether what we call literary theory still has relevance to the work that we do (and surely somebody reading this will feel that I don’t even have that list right).
