Monday, April 4, 7:10-9:10 p.m. in SJH 211
St.
John's University Department of History
~
presents ~
Dr. Hasia Diner,
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History, New York University
A Conversation with Professor Hasia Diner on
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New
World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
Dr. Diner,
a pre-eminent historian of American Jewish history and immigration history,
provides new insights into the immigrant experience, as well as into the
unfolding of consumer culture in the United States, in her recent book, Roads
Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged
the Way. On April 4, she will engage
students in a conversation about her book and her research. Levi Strauss, manufacturer of blue jeans, is
perhaps the most famous of the small-time Jewish merchants who sold wares
across the expanses of a rugged, largely rural America. They brought jewelry and cloth, eyeglasses
and bathtubs to people living in towns and on farms. Peddlers encountered prejudice, but also
tremendous opportunities.
Hasia
Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of
American Jewish History at New York University, with a joint appointment in the
departments of history and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
and is the Director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. She received a Fulbright to teach in Israel,
was a fellow at Radcliffe College, was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
for 2010-2011, and has held several offices in professional organizations. She president of the Immigration and Ethnic
History Society. She is the author of
numerous books, including In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews
and Blacks, 1915-1935; Erin's Daughters in American: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth
Century; A Time for Gathering: The
Second Migration, 1820-1880; Lower East Side Memories:
The Jewish Place in America; and Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age
of Migration.
Please join her for a conversation on April 4, 7:10-9:10 p.m. in SJH 211
