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

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    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 ...

  • Scholars in Session: Advice Columns and the American Press with Ayelet Brinn, UofM Frankel Fellow

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    At the turn of the twentieth century, American Yiddish advice columns were more than entertainment—they became vital guides that helped new immigrants navigate personal struggles, American politics, and Jewish communal life while forging deep, trust-based relationships between newspapers and readers. Brinn delves into how these columns transformed the Yiddish press into a central institution of ...