Events in October–December 2024
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- Webinar: Rough Riders, Legionnaires, and Rabbis: Setting standards for Jewish Bravery from the Mexican Expedition through WWI
Webinar: Rough Riders, Legionnaires, and Rabbis: Setting standards for Jewish Bravery from the Mexican Expedition through WWI Webinar: Rough Riders, Legionnaires, and Rabbis: Setting standards for Jewish Bravery from the Mexican Expedition through WWI
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October 10, 2024Miriam Eve Mora, author of Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century discusses how Jewish service members defied stereotype from the Spanish-American war through World War I.
Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of Jewish America, the Director of Academics at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, and professor of history at various institutions in and around New York City. She is the co-creator of JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience, a comics and pop culture convention celebrating diverse Jewish themes, characters, and narratives in sequential art. Dr. Mora was also the creator and managing curator of the Museum and Laboratory of the Jewish Comics Experience exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in 2023.
Her First book, Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century was released from Wayne State University Press in May, 2024.