Potluck Kiddush Conversation with Scholar-In-Residence Daniel Schwartz
Sat, January 17 at 12:00 pm
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Join us for a Kiddush and talk from Scholar-In-Residence Professor Daniel Schwartz:
World of Their Children (and Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren): The Making of the Jewish Upper West Side
When Irving Howe published World of Our Fathers in 1976, he offered both an elegy for the immigrant Yiddishkeit of the Lower East Side and a critique of what followed: the “world of their children,” whose Jewishness seemed thinner, flatter, and more conventional by comparison. Yet the Upper West Side unsettled that judgment and became something singular—a Jewish urban space in America with an unmatched density of types, institutions, and energies that shaped American Jewish life and American arts and letters alike. Jews, including Howe himself, helped build that world. This talk explores how it took shape.
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Kiddush will be a potluck: We’ll provide the main dish, you bring salads (green, vegetable, grain or bean), side dishes, or dessert.
In order to make sure our meal is balanced, if your last name begins with the letters A-M, please bring in a side dish or salad. If your last name begins with N-Z, please bring in a dessert.
All dishes should adhere to AC’s kashrut policy.
