Scholars in Session: Jews and Drag-An American Cultural History 1900-2020

Golan Moskowitz, 2024-2025 University of Michigan Frankel Institute Fellow, explores the Jewish American cultural history of the gender-transcendent performance art of drag, from early twentieth-century Yiddish vaudeville through contemporary Emmy-winning reality television. Professor Moskowitz will discuss how marginalized Jewish artists, writers, and performers creatively process legacies of embodied otherness, focusing especially on Jewish American descendants of immigrants and Holocaust survivors, as well as on LGBTQ Jewish creatives.

Presented by SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment). Co-Sponsored by the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.

Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) programming is endowed by a generous gift from Cis Maisel and supported by Carol & Ronald P. Fogel, Sheri & David Jaffa, and Elaine & Michael Serling through The J’s Pillar of Light Program. SAJE inspires meaningful connections and important conversations.

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