Legacies of Jewish culture, society and politics at the turn of the 20th century will be explored by scholars from Yale and other U.S. universities, as well as from Israel, in an international symposium being held Saturday-Monday, Nov. 1-3, at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St.
Zionism, Jewish women in imperial Germany, the dilemma of identity in the Habsburg monarchy, Jewish immigrants, jobs and gender, and marriage and intermarriage are among the topics speakers will address at the symposium, which is free and open to the public. Yale faculty will chair each of the symposium's five sessions.
The symposium will include sessions on "Art, Politics and Sexuality," "Gender and Jewishness in the Fin-de-Siècle," "State, Culture and Society," "A View from the New World" and "The Heritage of 1897." Chairing the sessions will be Yale faculty members Paula E. Hyman, Peter Gay, Cynthia Russert, Benjamin Harshav, David Brion Davis and Geoffrey Hartman.
The symposium is cosponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies and the WHC with support from the David A. Oestreich Fund and the William and Miriam Horowitz Fund. For further information, call 432-0843.