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DESCRIPTION:Hasia Diner will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursda
 y\, March 22\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “How America Met the Jews
 .'This talk will focus on\nsome of the key characteristics of American his
 tory which rendered it such an\nattractive place for Jews immigrating duri
 ng the last centuries. Particularly\nduring the century from 1820 through 
 1920 no less than 85 to 90 percent of Jews\nseeking homes outside of Europ
 e chose America. While much of the historical and\npublic discussion has p
 ivoted around the word 'freedom\,' this talk\nwill explore more mundane\, 
 but perhaps more profound reasons. These including\nthe vast number of oth
 er immigrants arriving at the same time who essentially\ndeflected negativ
 e attention from Jews\, the nation's obsession with color and\nthe reality
  that Jews always enjoyed the legal benefits of being white\,\nAmerica's e
 mbrace of religion as a force for morality\, its unabashed\nmaterialism an
 d celebration of consumerism\, and finally\, the fundamentally\nnon-ideolo
 gical politics built around the two-party system.Hasia\nDiner's work has b
 een located at the intersection of American and Jewish\nhistory\, though n
 ot exclusively. She has also ventured out to look at the\nhistories of oth
 er European immigrant groups in the United States and is\ncurrently comple
 ting a biography of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald as part of\nYale Unive
 rsity's series\, 'Jewish Lives.' She is the\nwinner of a Guggenheim Fellow
 ship (2011)\; Senior\nPost-doctoral Fellowship\, Shelby Cullom Davis Cente
 r for Historical Research\,\nPrinceton University (2002–2003)\; Fellow\, A
 merican Academy of Jewish Research (elected)\;\nMember\, Society of Americ
 an Historians (elected)\; and is one of twenty\nliving women historians in
 cluded in American Women Historians. 1700-1900s\n(Greenwood Press\, 1998\,
  edited by Jennifer Scanlon and Sharon Cosner). She is\nthe author of nume
 rous prize-winning volumes\, including The\nJews of the United States\, 16
 54 to 2000\n(University of California Press\, 2004)\, Hungering\nfor Ameri
 ca: Italian\, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Harvard U
 niversity Press\, 2002)\, Her\nWorks Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women
  in America from Colonial Times to\nthe Present (Basic Books\, 2002\, with
  Beryl Lieff Benderly)\, and In the Almost Promised\nLand: American Jews a
 nd Blacks\, 1915-1935 (Johns Hopkins University Press\,\n1995).This event 
 is part of the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture. A
 dditional support provided by The David Berg Foundation.This event will be
  livestreamed. Please check back the day of the event for a link to the vi
 deo. To watch videos of past events please visit our YouTube page.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: How America Met the Jews
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