Event
Getting Ahead: Immigrants, Business, and Ethnic Identity
American Museum of Jewish History and the University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program
Panel Discussion: "Getting Ahead: Immigrants, Business, and Ethnic Identity"
Beth Wenger, NMAJH Historian and Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, will moderate a group of leading scholars engaged in a broad consideration of immigrants and business, focusing on Italians, Jews, Koreans, and others, and exploring these diverse immigrant experiences in comparative context.
Panelists include noted scholars:
Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History, New York University. Diner is author of Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America (2000); Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001); and We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (2009), among other works.
Jennifer Lee Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine; Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2011-12). Lee is author of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (2002) and The Diversity Paradox Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America (2010).
Diane Vecchio, Professor of History, Furman University. Vecchio is author of Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women Italian Migrants in Urban America (2006).
Presented in partnership by the University of Pennsylvania's Jewish Studies Program and the Museum, this program seeks to explore and draw connections between key themes of the American Jewish experience and broader dimensions of American history and culture.
Supported by the Arlene and Stanley Ginsburg Family Foundation
Free for Museum Members
Non-Members: $8
Penn Students and Faculty with valid ID: Free
Reception to follow.